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Hew novelist emerges from within the ranks
of those who dropped out of the University
The lied and Black, Friday. September 29, 1978
Page 7
By SCOTT JACOBS
A former University student
as become one of Georgia's
astest-rising novelists and is
egotiating he. next book
ontract with one of the more
restigious literary agencies in
he world
Becky Lee Weyrich. origin-
lly of Brunswick, has pub-
shed two books this summer
nd is expecting a third to hit
he racks at any time
Her first novel, Through
'averns Infinite, was pub-
ished by Manor Books in
laperback form in June of this
ear Image in A Golden
ircle, also a Manor paper-
lack was published at the end
if July,
Her third book, a horror-
nystery entitled Contents For
ale. will appear on the
laperback shelves as soon as
Janor Books can get it out.
Veyrich expects the release
rill be very soon
Weyrich's career as a
lovelist has skyrocketed since
he broke into the publishing
narket on a grand scale by
elling all three of her current
lovels in one week.
She began in relatively
tumble surroundings. After
graduating from Glynn Aca-
lemy in Brunswick, she
ittended the University of
Georgia as a freshman in
958-59
"I had planned to major in
Snglish, with plans of being an
English teacher,” Weyrich
adding that she had been
influenced to attend the
University by her parents, both
UGA alumni.
She married, though, during
her sophomore year and
dropped out of the University.
Her husband, Henry, was
transferred to a naval base in
Maine where, as base publicity
chairman, she got her first
experience in writing for the
public.
“I must have gotten 25 rejection
slips on that book... ”
—Weyrich
For almc*t ten years she
wrote squadron newsletters for
the navy without pay. In 1969
she began her professional
career writing a weekly social
column for a local newspaper
and later added a horoscope
column to her weekly writings
"I would go out and buy all
the horoscope magazines that
would come out each month,”
the novelist laughed. "I would
go through all of them and pick
out similarities and write
versions of my own.”
Later Weyrich branched out
into other areas of interest to
write a new defunct fashion
column and an antique column
which she is still producing
each month for the Georgia
Coastal Illustrated magazine.
Weyrich’s first novel,
Caverns, initially appeared in
newspaper installments over a
five month period under the
title The Replacement.
It was an ambitious project
for a beginning novelist. The
book, about a girl ‘‘thrust by
hypnotherapy into her former
lives,” covered 5000 years and
77 lives, from the time of the
Egyptian pyramids to the age
of space.
Manor Books published the
novel as “historical fantasy!”
but Weyrich prefers to call it
“historical fiction.”
‘‘It was an unusual book,” she
recalled. “Toward the end I
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py CATHERINE RODRIGUE
University students will be
arking farther from campus
f the Office of Campus
Manning receives the neces
sary funds for the construction
|f additional parking spaces.
Campus planners want to
lleviate congestion by build-
ig a perimeter parking area
Jmilar to the temporary lot
-esently serving the College
f Education, according to
Javid Lunde, associate dir
ector of campus planning. The
perimeter parking zones, in
addition to two multi-level
decks, will hopefully encourage
students to park oft campus,
IjUnde said
The campus planning office
has requested approximately
$300,000 for the construction of
a 850 to 900 space perimeter
commuter lot, Lunde said. The
massive parking area will be
located between River Rd. and
East Campus Rd. behind the
School of Veterinary Medicine,
about one and a half miles
from Stegeman.
Students, mostly commuters
from off campus, will leave
their vehicles in the parking
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used what a professor later
told me was verv unusual
literary form-double regress
ion. I had two people talking at
the same time, quotes within
quotes It was intricate and
very difficult.”
Her first novel was by far
the most difficult to sell, said
Weyrich. She wrote it after a
stay at a Dixie Council of
Authors and Journalists in
spired her to try the historical
fiction—Gothic novel format
“I had always considered
myself more of a newspaper
feature writer,” she said “I
did have a few magazine
articles published in a few
national magazines.”
‘‘I must have gotten 25
rejection slips on that book and
it was rewritten and retyped
and I guess I have enough
copies to pass around to
everyone in the world,” she
said remembering her struggle
to sell Caverns
Finally, at another writer’s
council, Nelle McFather, a
veteran Gothic novelist also
from Georgia, took an interest
in Weyrich’s work and sug
gested a few changes in the
book. Weyrich then sold
Caverns almost immediately to
zone and ride a University
transit bus to and from
classes.
According to Lunde, the
Perimeter park and ride lot
will reduce the influx of traffic
that reaches its height between
10 a m. and 2 p.m. “At peak
hours there is an overabund
ance of cars on campus. There
are enough spaces for the
need, but they are in the wrong
places,” said Lunde.
Campus planning is also
appealing for funds to build a
tri-level parking deck beneath
the proposed student center.
However, the planned deck
will not add a significant
number of spaces, since the
new student center will engulf
a large portion of Stegeman’s
present parking area.
The deck, if constructed, will
include 400 spaces at an
estimated cost of $3500 per
space. The high construction
cost could force the University
to charge for parking.
There are tentative plans for
the construction of a second
parking deck which would be
located On the present sight of
the University Bookstore’s
parking lot.
175 Hast Clayton
Rosh Hashanah
celebration set here
Athens’ Jewish community will be celebrating the upcoming
Rosh Hashanah holiday, and services will be held on and
around the campus. Reform, conservative and orthodox
services will be held, and area rabbis will be presiding at the
ceremonies. The scheduled worship ceremonies are as
follows:
REFORM
CONSERVATIVE
ORTHODOX
Erev Rosh
Hashanah
Oct. 1
8 p.m.
Temple
8 p.m
Large Ballroom
Memorial Hall
8 p.m
Small Ballroom
Memorial Hall
Kosh Hashanah
Day No 1 - Oct 2
10a m
Temple
10 am.
Large Ballroom
Memorial Hall
10 am.
Small Ballroom
Memorial Hall
Rosh Hashanah
Day No 2 - Oct 3
10 am
Large Ballroom
Memorial Hall
>0 am
Small Ballroom
Memorial Hall
Yom Kippur
"Kol Nidre"
Oct. to
8pm
Temple
8 p m Chapel
Catholic Center
1344 S Lumpkin
8 p.m.
Small Ballroom
Memorial Hall
Yom Kippur
Oct II
Day Service
10a m
Temple
3pm
10 am
Large Ballroom
Memorial Hall
10 am
Small Ballroom
Memorial Hall
Yom Kippur
"Yizkor"
Oct It
4 p Tt
Temple
4 p.m
l-arge Ballroom
Memorial Hall
4 p.m.
Small Ballroom
Memorial Hall
Yom Kippur
Closing
Service Oct It
S pm
Temple
4:30 p m
Large Ballroom
Memorial Hall
4 30 p.m
Small Ballroom
Memorial Hall
Presiding at High Holida> Services
Reform-Rabbi Fred Mitchell Raskind
Conservative—Timothy S Mescon
Orthodox—Dr Ed Azoff
Manor
“They bought that one and I
called them in New York and
asked if they would be
interested in two other books
and they said yes. send them
up. Weyrich said explaining
her triple sale in one week
Gothic novels, she explained,
are based on a very strict
formula that makes them good
material for the beginning
author.
“You have a beautiful young
woman who is completely pure
and untouched,” she began.
“They are putting some sex in
Gothic novels now, but the
formula is no sex in the book
“You’ve got at least two
handsome men who are vying
for her attention. You know
one of the men is good and one
is bad and you don’t know
which is which until the end of
the book
“The girl always ends up
with the good one and they live
happily ever after Also, an
isolated location that is be-
lieveable (is part of the
formula). You have to put the
girl in a great deal of danger
and suspense.”
Weyrich laughed, “And the
bad guy always gets his just
deserts!”
Weyrich is now working on a
major historical novel about
the Roman emperor Nero that
is requiring extensive re
search.
She is currently negotiating
with the William Morris
Agency, one of the world’s
biggest literary agencies, for
contract rights to the novel,
she said. If an agreement is
reached as hopes, she predicts
the book will be published in 18
months
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proposal related to the company’s non-tobacco products or operations.
It is designed to provide students with realistic and practical business
experience to supplement their classroom learning.
I he I opic: Students may propose a program in corporate respon
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I lie Judges: Members of the selection committee are: Eugene H.
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