Barbara Flores spoke at the Livermore Library’s Indie Author Day event October 12 on “How Not To Write A Memoir.” Diana McDowell published two books under the pen name Diana Lynn. Splintered Dreams, contemporary women’s fiction, was published in February. In July, she published Build A Story – A Writer’s Workbook. Rose …
Dan Linehan will present “Using Fiction and Multimedia to Drive Unconventional Storytelling” at the Tri-Valley Writers February meeting. They say that truth is stranger than fiction. So why have to choose one over the other? In 2006, former scientist/engineer Dan journeyed to Antarctica and the surrounding regions to study and write about environmental and wildlife …
Dan Linehan, Author of The Princess of the Bottom of the World, February 15, 2020 Read More »
Fire season is the time to check your emergency supplies. As well as having a plan for your family (medicine, food and water, and power cords just in case you find some place with electricity), make sure you have an emergency plan for your writing. Do you have backups of your work-in-progress? Are your notes …
Celebrate the new year with others whose passion for writing is as strong as your own. Join us for a meeting filled with open-mic readings by our members during our Winterfest celebration. Sign up early to snag one of the nine five-minute reading slots. This is your time to share your poems, flash fiction, short-short stories, or …
Elaine Drew read from Courting Trouble (a romantic comedy set in England in 800 AD) at the Lafayette Library Sunday, September 15, at 4 pm, as part of the Art Embraces Words program. Dr. Jac Fitz-enz is featured in the September 2019 issue of CFO magazine. Jac is quoted by David McCann …
Like everyone around him, Everett Aboud was stuck in his own personal dead-end. Until Friday, April 18, when Philip Machen changed life for everyone. Ed Miracle‘s debut novel, Maker Messiah, was published September 14. Eve Sprunt‘s book Dearest Audrey, An Unlikely Love Story, based on her aunt’s letters while on a Fullbright in Pakistan …
Have you poured your heart and soul into a draft of your novel or spent the month of November writing 50,000 + words for NaNoWriMo, and now don’t know what to do with all your effort? Are you stuck with your research? Or not sure if you’ve done enough to properly world build? Perhaps you …
I read a cultural history of Saint Petersburg, Russia, that reminded me of how much place influences character. Almost all of my favorite composers, from the 1800s well into the 20th century, were born and/or trained in Saint Petersburg. I was amazed at how many of the 20th century musicians either stayed or returned despite …
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I write science fiction, so I’m always looking for ways to improve my world-building skills. Sometimes I find my best examples in the news. Consider this item from an article in Foreign Affairs: “Since the beginning of written history, Chinese society has relied on extended kinship networks to cope with economic risks. Yet a rising …
Brooke Warner will present a “What You Should Know about Hybrid Publishing” workshop for Tri-Valley Writers’ November meeting. The publishing process is mysterious to many writers. How do agents determine what’s commercial and what’s not? What if your writing is not commercial? Are there options other than commercial publishing and self-publishing? Brooke will demystify the process and …
Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press & SparkPress, November 16, 2019 Read More »
