At midnight on Halloween, my fingers touch the home row keys of my computer, my eyes on the digital clock in the lower right of the screen. Wait, wait. Not yet. One more minute of ghosts and goblins. At 12:01 a.m. local time, November 1, I click the first keystrokes of a suspense novel that …
Do you have the Twitter jitters? Blog-phobia? Facebook freak-out? Are you new to Adventuring into the Land of Social Media/ Web 2.0? Publishers expect more and more from authors and illustrators (before during and after you’ve been published), so come learn how to juggle your promotion efforts, social websites & online personalities and STILL HAVE …
“What are you making?” my husband asks. We are sitting in the family room together, he with the newspaper, me with a needle and thread. “An alien,” I answer. “I don’t want to know,” he says quietly, eyes on the sports section. I chuckle, knowing his curiosity will return once he reaches the stock market …
Two of Violet Carr Moore’s haiku contest entries were published winners in the Tri-Valley Herald and other local newspapers
Fred Norman has a YouTube recording of a reading he did on Veterans’ Day at the Crosses of Lafayette. View it here.
Patricia Bacon’s short story “The Egret” has been accepted for publication in the 2010 edition of the 4th Street Studio Saturday Salon Literary Harvest.
Lynn Goodwin will be promoting her book You Want Me to Do What? — Journaling for Caregivers SIGNINGS 8/16 Clayton Books, in Clayton from 2-4 8/22 Barnes & Noble in Pleasanton 1:00-3:00 – Workshop and signing 9/11 Webster House talk and signing in Palo Alto, CA 3:30 11/10 Barnes & Noble in Antioch 5:30-7:30 OTHER …
Albert Rothman will be speaking about his autobiography, A Brooklyn Odyssey: Travails and Joys of a Boy’s Early Life, at the Livermore Library on September 2nd at 7 pm.
At the Alameda County Fair Marilyn Slade won the Theme Award for “Sunflower in Her Hair,” the Silver Award for “Food Fight at the Fair” and Honorable Mention for “Crouching Spider.”
Annette Langer will be busy promoting her book Healing Through Humor: Change Your Focus, Change Your Life!
