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2024 Programs: 

Meeting time: 1:30 p.m.

The CROW group meetings are held at various Oklahoma City Metro libraries. Each month, the location will be provided, along with the program info. 

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February 2024 Meeting: 

Saturday. February 17, 2024, 1:30 p.m. 

Location: The Village Library - 10307 N Pennsylvania Ave, The Village, OK 73120 

Andrea Foster - Author, Editor, Book & Music Marketer

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Andrea Foster is an editor and author who has been in the book business since 1977. She currently coaches the Academic Team at Redlands Community College, teaches Creative Writing online, and how to Write Publish & Market Your Book at the Canadian Valley Technology Center, CVTech.  She is a former adjunct instructor for Redlands Community College in Writing, Composition, and Argument.  She has been a judge for the National Veterans Creative Arsts Competition (Written portion) for several years. 

With over forty-three years' experience in the book business, including marketing and promotions, she has been interviewed on major networks about controversial books including Satanic Verses, American Psycho, and non-fiction books by the NRA's Wayne Lapierre. 

The following is a list of some of the authors with whom Andrea has worked: 

· President Jimmy Carter 

· Astronaut Buzz Aldrin

· Fiction writer John Grisham 

· Romance writer Tami Hoag 

· Baseball star Mickey Mantle and sons 

· Spiritual author John Bradshaw 

· Relationships author John Gray 

· TV host Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) 

Andrea began as an Op Ed writer for various newspapers in Connecticut and also did research and investigative reporting on such diverse subjects as government involvement in the arts, nuclear power plants, and toxic waste.  She has worked in every form of the media, including television and radio, when living in Houston. In addition, she wrote for columns and blogs for several Houston newspapers and magazines. 

Andrea has given workshops for booksellers on how to create events and how to improve autographing events as well as seminars for authors at Writer's Conventions on how to get your book published.  Her expertise is “How to Market Your Book,” as she is well versed in social media and other forms of creative promotion.

 Andrea's former life included being Community Relations & Events Coordinator for Borders Books & Music, PR Queen for authors as diverse as Captain Kangaroo and Kinky Friedman, the Regional Buyer (New England & New York City) for Waldenbooks during the Satanic Verses era and performing as a jazz & Motown vocalist while living in France in the late 1980s.

 Andrea does private consulting with authors for editing, revising, getting published and creating marketing plans and has been doing so for the last 25+ years.  Since beginning the Creative Writing group Creative Quills, she and her writers have published over a hundred books collectively.  An editor and copywriter, Andrea has been published in magazines, newspapers, and online publications for decades, including TIME magazine, the Houston Tribune, the Waterbury Republican American, the Indigo Sun, Chron.com, and more.

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