October 10, 2025 Meeting Minutes

Submitted by Lori Morgan, Vice President.

Submitted 10/25/2025

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Location. Ray Residence, Broken Arrow

Attending. Bill, Greg, Chris, Lori, Brooks, Sue, Brad, Micheal, Sean, Andrew and Steven.

OSFW Business

The President confirmed that the December meeting will be our usual holiday party. He is proposing the following details for this year’s writing activity:

It’s our tradition that we each prepare a story or story fragment of not more than 1000 words. The proposed theme for the stories this year is Hair-raising Holiday Tales. For the mandatory words, we propose the following: jitter, grisly, and limpid.

More information is available elsewhere on this site.

Ritual Questions and Responses

• Who wrote
  • Everyone! 

• Who submitted
  • Chris – Chris -Final Holding to Orion’s Belt/ Bolt out of the Blue to Bourbon Penn/ Dirty Santa to Crosstimbers/ Carbonifours Yuletide to 3 BLE

• Who published
  • Bill re-published his textbook Probability and Stochastic Processes on Amazon’s KDP
• Who Sold
  • No sales reported
• Who got paid
  • Bill received KDP royalties for Tales from the Crosstimbers and Escape from Cabot’s Landing
• Good rejections
  • nope

• GPIC news
  • Bill mentioned new TV series on FX  ‘Lowdown,’  based and filmed in Tulsa.
  • Micheal has a book signing Saturday the 11^th –  at Peace of Mind bookstore
  • Lori will have a booth at the downtown Pride Tulsa Sat  the 11^th all day event selling her arts and crafts.
  • New book out ‘A hole in the Sky’ by  Wilson -spoke at the TU presidential lecture series.  
  • Sean mentioned a book ‘The Fold’  and a movie  ‘The Substance’

Readers at this meeting

• Andrew-   Chapter 9  ..
• Sean-  Chapter 3 – rogue AI  and bubble universes.
• Micheal- Assorted short stories featuring Roarbash

The November meeting will be at the RAY residence in Broken Arrow.