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I was born during the depression, on my grandfather’s ranch in Stillwater County, Montana. Later my folks moved to Billings, where I went to grade and high school. This is rodeo country; and a good portion of summer entertainment involved rodeo attendance. It is also cattle country; and it was difficult not to grow up a cowpoke of sorts by osmosis.
I worked during high school as an usherette in a movie theater. I worked my way through college as a long-distance operator, and I graduated from Rocky Mountain College in Billings Montana in 1954. For the next 18 years, I worked as a Medical Technologist, chiefly in the field of toxicology. Among other institutions, I worked at Texas Children’s Hospital and Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Los Angeles County Hospital in Los Angeles and Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, California.
In 1974, I graduated from Drake University Law School. Subsequently, I was employed as a Prosecutor in The Polk County Attorney’s Office, Des Moines, Iowa; and as Director of the Regulatory Division and legal counsel, Iowa Department of Agriculture. For the last eight years, prior to my retirement in 1995, I was an Administrative Law Judge (tax cases). Since retirement, I have been so busy I wonder how in the world I ever managed before retirement.
Bette was the author of several books and in 2011 she was named “Top Female Poet” by the Academy of Western Artists.
Teal Blake grew up in Montana, on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by ranching country. Growing up in his father’s studio looking at C.M. Russell paintings and reading Will James books inspired him to pick up a pencil and start capturing his own visions of cowboys and the American West.
Teal has been painting professionally since 2005, he was predestined to become, a western artist. Teal has always liked to show what makes the traditional West: cowboys not always clean-shaven, shirts not always creased, and their horses’ manes not always long.
conference. It is a writing retreat. The amazing island setting allows writers to have the most downtime to write, learn, relax, meet other writers and read.
It will last 4-5 days.
I am aiming for fall/late 2020 — somewhere from September on of that year
Because of limited space, this is a first-come-first-serve retreat, with 20 or fewer spots available.
There will be almost a dozen intensive sessions on writing and publishing.
All attendees will receive various personal critiques on their work.
While many events take an academic focus, few events are able to seriously do all three of the following: 1) address the craft of writing and storytelling, 2) address the business of writing and getting published, and 3) allow writers plenty of time to recharge their batteries, read, and write creatively. This is a special retreat designed to not only maximize writing instruction and give writers the precise tools they need to get published, but also maximize personal time—whether than means writing, relaxing by the ocean, sipping a margarita, taking some time to meditate, or hopefully all four and much more.
The Writer’s Digest Annual Conference offers everything you need to advance your writing career creatively and professionally. Gain invaluable tips to improve your craft, explore publishing options and learn how to establish a sustainable career. Join us in NYC from August 22-25!
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