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In 2009, a group of writers got together and decided to work toward promoting their own publications while lending a hand to other writers and artists. From that came Imagicopter. "Imagicopter" is the umbrella name for the tour currently supported by authors whose works have appeared in Kerlak Publishing, Literary Underground, Meadowhawk Press, Seventh Star Press, Twilight Times Books, Third Axe Media and Sam's Dot Publishing and by Word Catchers of Memphis. With the cooperation of several small press publishers, local authors, artists, and booksellers, the project soon took off.
This is a voluntary organization. Participation on the site, at the events, and at the conventions we attend is also voluntary.
It depends.
If you expect Imagicopter to foot the bill for an extended world tour, you're in for a big disappointment. If, however, you want to join with other writers and artists at local events to showcase your work and discuss the creative process, you should find Imagicopter very rewarding.
Imagicopter is not a replacement for your own publicity agent, but it does help in the promotion of your work and networking. Imagicopter does not guarantee an increase in sales, it merely attempts to put your work in front of a larger audience.
Imagicopter is not a business nor a charity. Unfortunately it does not offer any tax exempt codes at this time.
It is strictly voluntary, and endeavors are made to have Events as close to authors and artists to give them a chance to promote their talent without having too many expenses.
Imagicopter is open to anyone in the creative community.
Simply send a 100-200 word bio and a picture for posting on the site.
See the contact page.
Nothing.
You give us no money, we give you no money. This is a volunteer operation. We can not accept donations, nor does Imagicopter provide funds for our participants.
No.
Imagicopter participants are never required to attend any events. You are invited (contingent on the vagaries of changing circumstances) to attend what should be a local event. To accept or ignore the invitation is at your discretion.
If the event is being held at a convention or someplace besides a bookstore, yes. We would appreciate it if you could provide some promotional material for your work we can use on the Imagicopter table if you are unable to attend in person (preferably not a book, as we cannot sell books from the table). Bookmarks, postcards, brochures, whatever you can spare. When an event is scheduled at a bookstore, the store will usually order books, but they take their discount on sales.
Some events are conventions but a lot are specific for the group. We try to provide each author a few minutes to do readings and/or discussion about their work, contingent on the time allotted for the event. Typically, this works out to from 10-15 minutes per attendee to do whatever you think will promote your work best. Of course, you don't have to do anything but attend if you like. No pressure.
Any advertisements you want to do in the event communities is up to you. We usually try to send out press releases and announcements, flyers or anything we think might bring audience beforehand, but if you have a contact that might help, by all means, do so. You are not required to mention anyone else, or even Imagicopter, in your announcements. If you would prefer we contact them, please let us know the contact name and number/email, and we will do our best to get in touch with them.
Anyone participating in Imagicopter is welcome to suggest an event. We are open to suggestions from everyone. We just ask that you let us know the dates so we do not schedule events overlapping. We want our members to get maximum exposure and not interfere with previous committments. We have no committees, no real hierarchy of any kind. Imagicopter is a co-operative effort. Everything goes through email, though, when it comes to scheduling, and we keep the I-site up to date so everyone knows the score.
Imagicopter is totally voluntary. If you discover that it does not meet your expectations, then a simple e-mail will remove you from the website, and no further invitations will be sent.
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Imagicopter owes a great deal to the writers, artists, and publishers that constitute its participants.
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Anne Barringer describes herself as a "Wordiologist". She is the 2009 Global Organizer for Can't Stop the Serenity, the global Sci-Fi charity event, and also Mid-South Con's Charity Auction Organizer. Anne's short story premiere appears in Dragons Composed. (Kerlak Publishing)
Lottie Boggan is a resident of Jackson, Mississippi and a long time Contributing Writer for the Northside Sun Newspaper. In 2007 she won the first prize in the state for her newspaper articles. She won First Place in the Division of Novels in the Eudora Welty Film and Festival, and Honorable Mention in the Short Story in Eudora Welty Film and Festival. She has also received the following awards and honors: Gum Tree Writers Competition- First Place, Short Story; Mid-South Writers Award- First Honorable Mention, Nostalgia Short Story; Mid-South Writers award-First Honorable Mention; Mary Margaret Norcross Memorial Award; Mid-South Writers Award-First Honorable Mention, Short Story; Mid-South Writers Award-First Honorable Mention, Humorous Short Story; Brick Street Writers Contest, 2007 and 2008-Honorable mention.
Lottie Boggins along with her friend Judy Tucker published three anthologies of short stories of Mississippi authors: From the Sleeping Porch, Fireflies in Fruit Jars, and Mad Dogs and Moonshine. She is in the 2008 Gulf Coast Writers Anthology and the author of a memoir, Come Up Churning and Keep Your Buckets High.
Will Brooks, raised on pencil lead and pop culture, grew up to become a graphic designer by trade and an artist at heart. Inspired by friends, he rekindled his love for the colorful comic book pages. He recreates childhood heroes in his own bold style, while having Obi-Wan moments of past college professors and blasting rock n roll. His digitally illustrated works are for the comic book lover and the art collector with images of Captain American, B.A. Baracus, Lion-O, and others. A modern Warhol, he may wish. He is a guy with a roller coaster imagination who still locks himself away, cranks up the music and attempts to leave a small mark on the world.
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Jeremy Campbell grew up in Louisiana and lived for a short to time in North Carolina before settling in Mississippi. His novella, "When One Door Closes," has a small basis in the communities and relationships he experienced along the way.
Joanna L. Graves is a native Memphian who has published several poems and short stories in the late 1990's. She is seeking publication of her first novel, Hallowed Ground, a southern gothic novel set in Tennessee. She received her Tennessee license in Cosmetology in 1994, and is currently co-owner of Sister Mosaics, a fine arts partnership with her sister. Their work is often seen at art shows and craft fairs around the Memphis area. She has previously worked as a educational assistant with Memphis City Schools, and was a volunteer tutor for the Memphis Rotary Club. Interested in all things mystical, she currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband, daughter and two cats.
Mississippi native artist Chuck Jett has been called a 'High-Prince of Low-Brow Art'. He's a painter with a history of traditional watercolor and has evolved to working primarily with acrylic on canvas. Chuck has a fascination for the beauty of items in a state of decay, particularly for all things returning to a more natural state through rusting. Rusted motorcycles, automobiles and all machines that were once proud that have fallen to nature's will of deconstruction are common themes in his works. A close second to his love of rust would be his love of horror. He travels to conventions to sell his horror and fan art regularly and has started a few annual conventions to showcase horror and sci-fi art in the Jackson, Mississippi area. He currently will be having a horror festival in February 2011 and his second annual Mississippi Pulp Con later in the summer 2011.
Dean Johnson is a former project manager turned math teacher with a B.S in Mathematics and Computer Science and a minor in secondary education from Mississippi College. Invited by his English professors to participate in honors writing class he was encouraged to change his major from Math to English. He has written how to magazine articles and testing instruments for the Mississippi College State Board as well as assisted with writing several college curriculums and educational grants.
A cancer survivor, Dean Johnson wrote an article about his battle with lymphoma for the Jackie Kennedy Onassis Leukemia Benefit which was featured at the Jackson, Mississippi Benefit and received media attention. Presently he and his wife teach Adult Literacy, Basic Education, and GED at a correctional facility. The art and love of writing has not been lost on Dean Johnson however, and he continues to write short stories in his spare time and has recently published his first novel murder mystery novel Kristina. He is currently working on four other novels in the same genre.
Born in Memphis, now residing in Walls, Ms ... I cannot remember when others did not consider me an artist. Personally, I consider myself to be a student of the 'art of knowledge'. I acquired a Master of the Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College in Chicago after traveling extensively in my artistic pursuits ... nationally and overseas (Japan, Korea, & Philippines).
My "visual art" is an attempt to look at the obvious (not beyond it) and to express "awe" at a Universe that exposes us to infinity manifested by innumerable mysteries of the cosmos and it's incomprehensibly uncountable atoms ... eternity, immortality and change evidenced by the properties of energy and matter ... and an overwhelming intelligence demonstrated by physical laws, math and form.
At present I give demonstrations of various multimedia techniques (at surrounding schools and colleges) and entertain diverse commissions.
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After a childhood of imagining herself as a writer, Cynthia Leavelle thought of a story idea one day while rocking her first child. From that rough start, she has written a number of inspirational stories and devotionals and used them with her teaching and church groups. More recently, the idea for a novel about the love story of the Biblical characters of Salmon and Rahab took shape in her mind. That novel, The Cord published by Crossbooks, will be coming out in October of 2010. Meanwhile, she has begun a sequel with the working title of Acsah and Othniel. Married for more than thirty years, her writing draws on lessons learned from raising her three sons and teaching English as a Second Language to international students.
Johnny Lowe is a writer, editor, and letterer. He wrote the second Judo Girl 4-issue comic book mini-series for Alias/Bluewater, and was co-writer of the manga-style graphic novel Grounded Angel. He contributed a story for the big anthology, Iconic, for the Comicbook Artists Guild (CAG), Of Christmas Past, and most recently Sig Alert for an upcoming manga anthology, also from CAG. He wrote/created stories for two issues of his own comic, Fictions. He is a copy editor for University Press of Mississippi. He also currently letters titles for Image Comics and Boom Studios.
David Nora was born in the picturesque Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but has been a resident of Memphis, Tennessee for seven years. His earliest writing contributions were for the Bay Beacon, his college newspaper where he supplied many articles. David brings a wide range of interests to his writing. He is an avid researcher on ooparts (out of place artifacts), mythology, ufology, and looks for connections between them. His love for roleplaying games has inspired many writing opportunities and led to his first published short story, The Legend of Kaveldeth in Dragons Composed. (Kerlak Publishing)
Henry Lewis Sanders, as he is known to his friends at The New Southern Apartments in Jackson, Tennessee, is a published poet and novelist. Along with Terrie Leigh Relf he co-authored Blood Journey, The Erotic Vampire Novel now out in paperback from Sam's Dot Publishing. As a poet his works have appeared in Modern Haiku, Parnassus Literary Journal, Lynx and many more publications.
Karen Nelson Sanders was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on October 12,1959 during the height of the LSU football season. She was never quite forgiven by her mother because this caused her mother to miss Billy Cannon's historic runback against Ole Miss on Halloween night. Karen has been an LSU fan since birth.
Karen attended Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi and received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Vocal Performance from Mississippi College. She went on to get a Master's Degree in Counseling from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and worked for several years at Warren-Yazoo Mental Health where it was not just a job, but an adventure. She has been married for 27 years to her sweetheart, Bill.
Forced to retire after being diagnosed with the neuromuscular disease, Myasthenia Gravis, Karen took up watercolor painting in January of 2009. Now she teaches watercolor at Vicksburg Senior Center and participates in local art exhibitions. Her art can be purchased at "The Cricket Box" in Vicksburg or "Fondren Art Gallery" in Jackson, MS.
Her Flickr site address is http://www.flickr.com/photos/missduffy59/ . She can be contacted at this email address for more information.
Karen N. Sanders
Shane Sullivan was born & bred in Louisville, MS. He has been writing short stories for as long as he can remember. Since he is a horror film fanatic, most of his stories contain horrific elements. Shane still resides in Louisville, where he shambles aimlessly about the countryside with the rest of his undead hoard.
Misfits & Mayhem is Shane's first published work.
L.A. Story (a.k.a. "Lee Ann", to her friends) is a native Tennessean, who has become a naturalized Mississippian over the last 17 years. Or perhaps, she is a Tennippian. She is a writer of fiction and poetry -- generally in the fantasy, scifi and horror genres.
In short stories and poetry, she has been published in several magazines, including: Aoife's Kiss, Between Kisses, The Muse Apprentice Guild - The MAG, San Diego Writer's Monthly (where she has been featured as a "poet of the month"), Tapestry Magazine, EOTU Zine, The Martian Wave, The Fifth Di ..., Tales from the Moonlit Path, Sounds of the Night Magazine, Twilight Times, Aphelion, Illumen Magazine, SDO Fantasy and Scifaikuest - just to name a few.
Her poetry has been twice nominated for Sam's Dot Publishing's James Baker Award, and she earned two nominations for the Science Fiction Poetry Writers of America's coveted Rhysling Award. She is the author of a fantasy poetry chapbook, "Passion Fruit and Other Loops," and a novella, "Urbania" (Both by Sam's Dot Publishing.) She also served as fiction/poetry editor for both Scifaikuest Magazine during its beginning and currently Sounds of the Night. She co-edited two poetry anthologies -- "Random Planets - A Scifaiku Odyssey" and "Unspeakable Limericks," and one horror fiction magazine anthology called, "Panic."
L.A. Story has been a humor columnist since 1998 for the Daily Corinthian and has won an Associated Press Award for her weekly column - "The Story Hour." The column has been a place where she chronicled her own neuroses and her family's constant misadventures and exploits -- nothing has been sacred. As a reporter for the same newspaper, she has won awards from both the Mississippi Press Association and the Associated Press Managing Editors.
Her current projects are an expanded version of "Urbania" as a full length graphic novel; another poetry chapbook; and a novel in progress. If all that were not enough, she is the mother of four children and is currently a full time college student.
L.A. Story really needs a nap.
Glen Stripling is a native of Mississippi, born in Jackson and currently residing in Pearl. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a Bachelor's of Science in geology, Mr. Stripling has been fascinated with science and the science fiction genre for years. When he developed a murder mystery which involved space travel, worm holes, and a look into the human condition - he immediate set pen to paper and wrote Chronosia. Granted the original manuscript was written while he "was stuck in the northwest part of the U.S. while his wife, [a nurse], was working at a temporary assignment" (The Clarksdale Blues-Star, November 22, 2009), he knew that relying on the science alone would not sell the book. He had to make the characters come alive. After gathering opinion on the original manuscript, Mr. Stripling finally printed the murder mystery and it is now available.
Mr. Stripling lives with his wife Katherine and is currently working on Chronosia 2: The Fugitives.
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