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Local Announcement and Life
Mar. 4th, 2009 10:15 amWe interrupt the regularly schedualed program for this local announcement:
Tuesday March 10, 2009:
Who Owns What? Learn about permissions and copyright
On Tuesday, March 10 at 1 PM, the Twin Cities chapters of the National Writers Union and the Professional Editors Network will hold a free workshop abou t permissions and copyright and other intellectual property issues concernin g writers and editors.
Location: St. Louis Park Library, 3240 Library Lane, St. Louis Park. Two attorneys—Debra Kass Orenstein and Kenneth Kunkle-- will explain copyright and permissions.
Literary property lawyer Debra Kass Orenstein is in private practice representing writers, publishers, and agents all over the country. She has worked in the legal departments of Harper & Row (now Harper Collins) and McGraw Hill and was General Counsel to the Lazear Agency in Minneapolis. Attorney Kenneth Kunkle’s practice focuses on legal issues affecting creative professionals. He assists his clients with a variety of matters, including copyright, trademarks, licensing and general business issues.
Please join us for this FREE event! For more details about the Twin Cities National Writers Union, visit www.nwu-tc.org For more details about the Professional Editors Network, visit www.pensite.org
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And now back to our regularly scheduled program...
So I'll be at MarsCon this weekend, and at some point it would probably also be wise to post my schedule (if, for no other reason than that the retyping/reformating of it would help me remember to go!)
But most of my brain has been eaten by gerbils.
Least you think I'm being metaphorical, I should tell you that yesterday, after school, we bought two, two-month old gerbils. Oh, and they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute. I am actually a huge fan of rodents. Gerbils, in fact, were my very first pets. Shawn and I kept gerbils in our college dorm, even though the keeping of pets was actually forbidden (gerbils were easy to hide.) We had gerbils before we had cats and then we successfully had cats and gerbils until we finally got too sad at how short their lifespan actually is (not much more than two years.)
The best thing about being with the same person for twenty odd years is that there are moments like the one that precipitated our buying gerbils. So we're at the pet store a month ago, probably buying cat food or litter or something for the fish. Shawn sees some gerbils on sale. We both remark how cute they are, and go on with our lives. Then, over the course of several days, Shawn says shyly, "I really love gerbils." Really? "Yep," she says and we go on to talk of other things. Then, finally a few days after that, I get from her, "I REALLY like gerbils. I kind of miss having them." Aha! Now I understand. Shawn wants gerbils. If I didn't know her as intimately as I do, I probably would have thought she was just being wistful, but, honestly, our conversation about having children went much like this... only it took a bit longer for me to get the hints and she finally had to just blurt out, "I want to have kids!"
So now we have kid... and gerbils.
The gerbils have no names yet. There is a bit of contention in the household as to what they should be called, so we're considering a "name jar" where we can put slips of paper with name ideas on them and perhaps, randomly chose at some point. I have been aggitating for "XOXO" (pronounced: "zoezoe" because Shawn jokingly claimed I'd bought a Valentine's card for someone named "zoezoe" when all that was written on the outside of the envelope had been XOXO.)
Enough about that for now. I must to go check on said gerbils, shop, write an article for the Midwest Muse (my local RWA chapter newsletter), and, of course, write the book.
Hope you all are well.
Tuesday March 10, 2009:
Who Owns What? Learn about permissions and copyright
On Tuesday, March 10 at 1 PM, the Twin Cities chapters of the National Writers Union and the Professional Editors Network will hold a free workshop abou t permissions and copyright and other intellectual property issues concernin g writers and editors.
Location: St. Louis Park Library, 3240 Library Lane, St. Louis Park. Two attorneys—Debra Kass Orenstein and Kenneth Kunkle-- will explain copyright and permissions.
Literary property lawyer Debra Kass Orenstein is in private practice representing writers, publishers, and agents all over the country. She has worked in the legal departments of Harper & Row (now Harper Collins) and McGraw Hill and was General Counsel to the Lazear Agency in Minneapolis. Attorney Kenneth Kunkle’s practice focuses on legal issues affecting creative professionals. He assists his clients with a variety of matters, including copyright, trademarks, licensing and general business issues.
Please join us for this FREE event! For more details about the Twin Cities National Writers Union, visit www.nwu-tc.org For more details about the Professional Editors Network, visit www.pensite.org
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And now back to our regularly scheduled program...
So I'll be at MarsCon this weekend, and at some point it would probably also be wise to post my schedule (if, for no other reason than that the retyping/reformating of it would help me remember to go!)
But most of my brain has been eaten by gerbils.
Least you think I'm being metaphorical, I should tell you that yesterday, after school, we bought two, two-month old gerbils. Oh, and they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute. I am actually a huge fan of rodents. Gerbils, in fact, were my very first pets. Shawn and I kept gerbils in our college dorm, even though the keeping of pets was actually forbidden (gerbils were easy to hide.) We had gerbils before we had cats and then we successfully had cats and gerbils until we finally got too sad at how short their lifespan actually is (not much more than two years.)
The best thing about being with the same person for twenty odd years is that there are moments like the one that precipitated our buying gerbils. So we're at the pet store a month ago, probably buying cat food or litter or something for the fish. Shawn sees some gerbils on sale. We both remark how cute they are, and go on with our lives. Then, over the course of several days, Shawn says shyly, "I really love gerbils." Really? "Yep," she says and we go on to talk of other things. Then, finally a few days after that, I get from her, "I REALLY like gerbils. I kind of miss having them." Aha! Now I understand. Shawn wants gerbils. If I didn't know her as intimately as I do, I probably would have thought she was just being wistful, but, honestly, our conversation about having children went much like this... only it took a bit longer for me to get the hints and she finally had to just blurt out, "I want to have kids!"
So now we have kid... and gerbils.
The gerbils have no names yet. There is a bit of contention in the household as to what they should be called, so we're considering a "name jar" where we can put slips of paper with name ideas on them and perhaps, randomly chose at some point. I have been aggitating for "XOXO" (pronounced: "zoezoe" because Shawn jokingly claimed I'd bought a Valentine's card for someone named "zoezoe" when all that was written on the outside of the envelope had been XOXO.)
Enough about that for now. I must to go check on said gerbils, shop, write an article for the Midwest Muse (my local RWA chapter newsletter), and, of course, write the book.
Hope you all are well.