Annette Langerhad a successful book signing at the Doubletree Hotel in Livermore in September. The enthusiastic crowd of retired teachers and former scientists and spouses bought a carton of her books, Healing through Humor: Change Your Focus,Change Your Life and A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the World, Diary of a Fearless Travel …
CWC Tri-Valley member, Nancy O’Connell reviewed the Pacific Chamber Symphony at the Bankhead Theatre, Livermore. Read her review in Section II, Arts & Entertainment of The Independent, Thursday, September 30, 2010.
Ransom Stephens, PhD, will discuss his journey with The God Patent. A professor of particle physics turned writer and speaker, Stephens first published his novel on Scribd.com, but it has since been released in print by Numina Press. The SF Chronicle called The God Patent “a milestone not only for Ransom but for the book industry as well, as the first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of online publishing.”
Some writers friends and I talked about family stories, how we loved preserving the history, but how we had to fudge the facts so various family members wouldn’t send a hit man after us. It is true that no man is the villain in his own story, nor any woman. It is also true that …
Characters and how to provoke them by Lani Longshore Read More »
Elaine Schmitz, publicity chair, promoted her book Recipes and Recollections of My Greek American Family during the Friday, September 3, morning Fox 40 (Sacramento) news. Elaine will be featured at the Sacramento Greek Festival at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Sacramento all Labor Day Weekend.
While I cling to the last three weeks of summer, the writer in me yearns for autumn to brush the earth with a palette of hued oranges, reds and browns. Images of leaves on a sun-baked path skitter across my imagination and fade. A reddish splash is real, not imaginary as Tri-Valley Writers joins the …
September 2010 President’s Message from Violet Carr Moore Read More »
Writing on vacation is tricky – which is probably why I’ve always failed at it. I take notebooks, printed pages, a variety of pens (because having the right pen makes all the difference), check over the itinerary for “me time” when the rest of the family is golfing. Still, when the room is empty, so …
August is back-to-school time; real time or online. I’ve enjoyed several semesters of writing classes from Las Positas College. This fall, no LPC for me. I’ll take time out to coordinate a dedicated volunteer team of Tri-Valley Writers board members and committee leaders. Together we’ll orchestrate monthly meetings, produce the newsletter, update the
You’ve just completed a fabulous novel with characters that sizzle and a plot with just the right amount of twists and turns. Now comes that hard part, you have to pitch your story to an agent. The agent is that person who takes it to a publisher and turns it into a best seller where …
Alice Kight is a winner in Bay Area News Groups Cinquains don’t sink our scribes contest. Look for her gardening cinquain poem in the August 2, 2010, Time Out section of printed and online editions. Entries from runners-up Chris Alesso and Marilyn Slade are in online editions.
