Award-winning novelist and TVW member Ann Parker writes occasional blog posts about the history of American slang. I’m constantly surprised by slang that sounds old but is really quite new, and by those words that sound current but have been around for donkey’s years. Tracing the lineage of ordinary words can occupy a pleasant afternoon …
John G. Bluck presents sixteen crime and sci-fi short stories in his new book, Florida Grand Theft & Other Tales. Its release date is October 4, 2021. Readers can immediately preorder e-book editions for $2.99; shortly after the book’s release the e-book price will rise to $3.99. Here are some major online bookstores now offering preorders of …
Reena Gupta’s debut work, Career Interrupted, has been published and is available on Amazon. Reena will launch her book at Towne Center Books on September 25, 2021. Launch details can be found here. Monique Richardson’s collection of short stories, The Unlikely Dreamcatcher has been published on Amazon, and is coming soon to Barnes and Noble. …
James Morehead’s poem “landscape (after bert weir)” successfully placed in Wingless Dreamer’s Spring 2021 collection here, and is now on sale. Also, James’s collaboration with Italian animator Gaia Alari, which transformed his poem “tethered” into a hand drawn animation, will be screened at festivals around the world and has already won an award. (https://youtu.be/n4l6vTDK4yE) George Cramer spoke on …
Michelle Cruz Gonzales will present “Inclusive Characterization: Writing ‘the other’ without Stereotypes or Appropriation” at the Tri-Valley Writers September meeting. Gonzales will discuss the delicate balance that is including diverse characters in writing to avoid invisibilizing minoritized groups and doing so in a way that is respectful, artful, and for the right reasons. Drawing on …
Michelle Cruz Gonzales, English/Creative Writing Professor & Author, September 18 2021 Read More »
At the last Tri-Valley Writers Social Space Zoom meeting we talked about how some of us have stopped reading an author we love because the protagonist doesn’t seem to learn from the past. It’s not a trivial question, because I am as guilty as the next reader of wanting my favorite characters to change, learn, …
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The Community Book Project: Celebrating the Little Things in Life was published June 17, 2021 in both print and ebook formats. This inspirational thought-of-the-day book brings together a community of contributors who wrote brief yet compelling essays about the little things that uplift them and make life more fun and interesting. Participating members and their writings include: …
After more than a year of the pandemic, one would think I should have an entire arsenal of techniques to work through disruptions to my writing. I know I thought so until I turned the calendar to July. Although my schedule is no longer attached to a school year, the mere fact that it …
The Tri-Valley Writers 2021 Conference on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at the Four Points by Sheraton in Pleasanton, is a full day event (8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) on the art and business of writing. It will feature three tracks: Craft, Marketing, & Self-Publishing and New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen as the keynote speaker. Rhys is the New York Times bestselling author …
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Tri-Valley Writers will start in-person meetings in September. This is splendid news, but my internal editor is whining that I haven’t explored this existence deeply enough, so what makes me think I’m ready to return to life as we knew it? I thought my increased journaling would be enough to document how these last months …
Returning To Life As We Knew It by Lani Longshore Read More »
