February, 11 2020 , 6:30 p.m.

At the Fountain Green General Store, 84 S. State Street

1. Welcome

2. Orders of business:

January meeting minutes.
Finances
Mt. Pleasant library

3. Our next compilation.

What will we call the book?
Next deadline.

Complete rough draft due: March meeting

Cover ideas:

Everyone take 5 minutes to look up "Literary fiction books 2020" and scroll through the book covers. What sort of fonts do they use? What is in the cover art? Are the covers made from photographs? What colors are most common? Least common? Etc...

Marketing:

Jenna and Cortney

Presented marketing plan. Each person must have social media. Each person must participate in the blog.
We will all market our own stories in the book.
Name changed to "Word Addicts" on unanimous vote.

Roundtable

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