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NEXT MEETING: SATURDAY, June 16, 2012

Catherine Brady on Revisions

Just in time to inspire us before our summer break, Catherine M. Brady, Academic Director and Professor at USF, will speak on revisions. Brady is the author of Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction (2010), as well as three short story collections: The End of the Class War (1999), finalist for the 2000 Western States Book Award; Curled in the Bed of Love (2003), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; and The Mechanics of Falling (2009), winner of the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. She has also written a biography, Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA (2007). Visit her website at www.catherinebradyauthor.com.

Tri-Valley Member News

Shannon Brown publishes debut novel

Rock ’N Roll in Locker Seventeen by Shannon Brown placed in the first round of book pitches in a recent Amazon contest. Now Shannon has published her book through Lucky 17 Publishing Company. It’s available on Amazon CreateSpace, Kindle, and Smashwords.

Ann Parker, Penny Warner at Livermore Library

Ann Parker, CWC Tri-Valley member, will be paired with Penny Warner, both Agatha Award nominees, in the Friends Authors and Arts Series at the Livermore Civic Center Library, 1188 South Livermore Avenue, on Thursday, May 10, at 7:00 p.m.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Camille Minichino and Ann Parker present mystery book club

Camille Minichino and Ann Parker will facilitate a new mystery book club at Towne Center Books, 555 Main Street Pleasanton, beginning Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. Meetings will be held the third Tuesday of each month. Contact Towne Center Books at (925) 846-8826 or townecenterbooks@sbcglobal.netfor more details.

President’s Message

Spring is a palette of color. It dispels winter with fresh sights, sounds and aromas to be savored. It brings new ideas for art, poetry and prose. Congratulations to Tri-Valley members who polished your work until it shined in the Las Positas College Anthology.

-Violet Carr Moore

MONTHLY MEETING DETAILS

Time: 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Cost: $10 for CWC members; $15 for nonmembers

Location: Four Points by Sheraton

5115 Hopyard Road (corner of Hopyard and Gibraltar)

Pleasanton, CA

Reservations required:
E-mail Annette or call 925-484-5924.

From Our Blog

What is mine to give up by Lani Longshore

There is never enough time in the day to accomplish all that needs to be done. Sometimes, that stops me cold. My plans to write get buried under the need to clean or go to the grocery. Then I see someone who manages to write every day, and clean and get to the grocery. The next thing I know, a… [click to continue...]

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