Tooting My Horn Tuesday for Virtual Writers Conference (And Okay, Golf. Again.)

Sometimes, people get a wild hair and the best thing to do is run for the hills. This time, my writing buddy, Gayle Trent, got a wild hair worth running to...she's coordinating the Virtual Writers Conference, starting May 19th.

Gayle has collected a fine group of people from all walks of the writing world to share their expertise. You can learn about self-publishing, marketing, social networks, fiction, non-fiction, genre writing, and a host of other subjects from writers who've been in the trenches. Writers who've fought the writing battles and lived to tell the tales. Writers like, well, me.

I'll be sharing my Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Have a Blog, and giving a few steps to get you started. I'll be funny, entertaining, and sorta helpful. So, zip over to the Virtual Writer's Conference on May 19th...the rest of the writers are bound to be mostly helpful.

And for those of you who've been missing my column, you can read May's "Golf Lessons" starring Cathy C. Hall, the beneficent Mr. Hall and Junior Hall. The editor of Modern Senior Living sometimes posts my column at the website; guess he got one of those wild hairs, too.

Finding Something Friday on Golf (Okay, and Writing, too)

Last Friday started with a golf trip. And the week just got crazier and crazier after that. But I did have time to find a contest along the crazy way.

It's the Women Who Write Contest, sponsored by the members of (what else?) The Women Who Write group in Louisville, Kentucky. I guess you can send just about anything you want, as long as it's not over ten double-spaced pages of poetry or prose writing. You'll have to send an entry fee ($10.00) and get it polished up and sent by May 31st. Check out the details here if you're a woman who writes. Sorry, guys, that's just the way the contest cookie crumbles.

Oh, I almost forgot! I found the latest issue of Modern Senior Living in the mail this week. My column happened to be about golf. And in that column, I mentioned Junior Hall, who just happened to be playing in the golf tournament from which I've just returned. Are you following all that? Anyway, I'd sent a photo of Junior Hall playing golf, just so the editor would know I don't make up the crazy stuff that winds up in my HI-larious columns. The editor added the photo and my "I don't make this stuff up" comment to the column. So, Junior Hall is kinda famous in the publishing world now. At least, along the senior set in North Georgia.


Here's Junior Hall's kinda famous pic. I'll be adding my columns to my website any day now, so you'll be able to read "Golf Lessons." And see for yourself the sorta true, kinda crazy world of Cathy C. Hall.