FRANK JOSEPH stirred up a lot of talk on the main MWA discussion list a few months ago. This Thursday’s presentation is the result. (He’ll make a similar presentation at the statewide MWA Conference on 4/24—but our meeting is FREE! FREE! FREE!)

Date & Time: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:00-9:00 pm
Location: Owen Brown Community Center, 6800 Cradlerock Way, Columbia (directions)
Speaker: Frank S. Joseph, author of To Love Mercy
Topic: Direct Marketing

Frank S. Joseph claims you can make $400,000 a year working at home! Piqued your interest? Well, your results may vary, but you're not likely to starve in a garret if you can write direct marketing copy. Award-winning direct marketing consultant and MWA novel contest finalist Frank Joseph shares secrets of "DM" ... points out pitfalls ... and reveals why he's stopped calling it "junk mail."

Frank Joseph is an award-winning direct marketing copywriter and consultant; retired publisher; and former Washington Post and Associated Press journalist. To Love Mercy, the first novel in his “Chicago Trilogy,” won second place (Mainstream) in the 2002 MWA novel contest; it was published in 2006 by Mid Atlantic Highlands. He recently completed the draft of To Walk Humbly, the second novel in the “Chicago Trilogy.”