Write on the Edge is a group of writers in Yuma, Arizona who banded together to share ideas, gain publishing and marketing knowledge, offer critique and support one another.
Started in 2007 by Jeanne Hounshell and Christine Howard when both found themsleves in need of a writing group. Somehow they met and each realized how serious the other was about writing and felt the need for support. They launched the group.
Yuma is a town with a population nearly doubles every fall as people escaping winter come to spend a few months. In the fall Jeanne and Chris began to seek others needing a writing group and distributed fliers to RV parks and at the local library. A few people came but it was an article in the local paper that brought in a good sized group. They now needed to move their meeting place which had been at a member's home. So they explored possible sites and began meeting at Copper Hills House. At the time a new branch library was being built in the Foothills and in the fall of 2008 they made it their permanent home.
The library has provided the group not only with a place to meet but new writers have found them as the library has included them on their calender and in the paper on events at the county libraries.
Although the number of members decreased in the summer a small group still met every week and did critique on one another's work. As of the summer of 2009 we had six members year around and they met every Tuesday.
The group also keeps in touch through the use of a group e-mail. Thus no matter where we are or what we are doing we can still share with one another.
It's 2011 and the group has grown with more members here all year round and with new winter writers returning each fall. From November through April we usually have ten to twelve people at Tuesday sessions. We are so much larger in the the winter we had to move to a bigger room at the library.
Four of our members have taken on the National Novel Writing Month challenge and are writing like mad to meet the 50,000 words.
Erv Barnes has his book Beyond the Blood Chit available on POD and as an e-book and is working on a sequel. He plans a four book series.
Kirsten Marie has a Danish Cookbook
Linda Scott has another coffee table book. It's her second.
Vicki Wantland self-published her book, Blueprint for the 21st Century: Healthy Role Model Guide. It is available for purchase in and 8.5 by 11 format and will soon be available as an e-book.
Two friends of the group have self-published work Jeanne Hounshell and M. Kay Howell. Bill Russell another friend of the group has two love stories published Not Without Fear and China Clipper