January 12, 2024 Meeting Minutes

Submitted by Lori Morgan, Vice President.

Submitted 2/4/2024


Location. President’s home, Broken Arrow

Attending. : Bill, Sean, Greg, Chris, Lori, Mike, and visitor Bryan 

Business Meeting.

Officers from last year agreed to serve another year and were elected without opposition.

Lori suggested that we gather the stories written for the holiday meetings to share and requested that people send them to her. Bill suggested possibly creating a website to share these or other stories. We will discuss further at the next meeting.

Ritual Questions and Responses

  • Who wrote
    • Everyone. Lori also worked on editing her novel.
  • Who submitted
    • Mike- the first contact story “Out of the Sands” to Spaceports & Spidersilk, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, editor. 
    • Chris, ‘Party of Two’ to Augar‘ ‘Pulling for Victory’ to Rock and a Hard Place
  • Who published
    • None
  • Who Sold
    • None
  • Who got paid
    • Bill got a royalty payment from Purple Sword Publications for his novel Hounds of Hollenbeck.
  • Good rejections
    • What’s that?
  • GPIC news
    • Sean signed up for an AI  review of the story.
    • Mike Winkle also brought a guest, an old friend and world traveler named Bryan Pilkington.  Mr. Pilkington was suitably impressed by the OKSFW meeting, but has not decided yet whether to attend another gathering.

Readers at this meeting

  • Mike-  Read Chapter Four of “Endangered Species,” a novella-length section of an epistolary book of the same title.  It was bad enough when Brandy woke one morning to find that her mind/spirit had been transferred into the body of a Himalayan snow leopard by some sort of cult.  But now the “Followers of the Gray” are invoking their motto, “Survival of the Fittest.”  They have tossed her into a huge arena with snake-pits, traps, tarantulas, and a piranha-pond, and she must face five murderous rats the size of German shepherds.  Even if she wins over them all, will the cult send her back to her own body?
  • Bill   Revised Chapter 1 for Escape From Cabots Landing’. a novel set in the same universe as Murder on Cabot’s Landing but five hundred years prior.

February meeting will be at the Sinor residence in Broken Arrow.


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