D. Patrick Miller and Sari Friedman will be guest speakers at the next monthly meeting of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, October 18 at 2:00 p.m., at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton.
Before founding Fearless Books in 1997 to continue the publication of his writing, D. PATRICK MILLER sold three solo projects to major publishers: Viking, Henry Holt, and Dell. He is now the author of nine titles, including Understanding A Course in Miracles (Ten Speed/Random House), and Living with Miracles (Tarcher/Penguin). As a collaborator, ghostwriter, or principal editor, Miller has helped other authors prepare manuscripts for such publishers as Viking, Doubleday, Warner, Crown, Simon & Schuster, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Hay House, Hampton Roads, and John Wiley & Sons. His poetry has been published in a number of magazines and several anthologies. A top-ranked volunteer expert on publishing at AllExperts.com, Miller provides professional consultations to literary agents and publishers as well as published and unpublished authors working in fiction and nonfiction. He is a member of the Authors Guild and Independent Book Publishers Association, and serves as president of the Northern California chapter of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).
SARI FRIEDMAN’s fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and book reviews have appeared in literary magazines, trade journals and anthologies including the O. Henry Festival Stories Collection, San Francisco Chronicle, Berkeley Daily Planet and Manhattan Poetry Review. She’s been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and the General Electric Younger Writers Award, and she won the New Voice in Fiction First Prize from The Writers Voice in NYC. She earned an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University, and has taught writing to at-risk youth and in advanced fiction writing workshops. She’s consulted on manuscript acquisitions for numerous publishers including Avon Books and New American Library; she currently provides comprehensive developmental editing and assessments to Fearless Literary Services, a division of Fearless Books. She is a judge for the Northern California Book Award, and is a member of several professional organizations including the Northern California Book Reviewers and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She edits the award-winning Fearless Poetry Series, writes short stories and poetry, and is completing writing both an adult literary novel and a young adult novel. Her website appears here.