Violet Carr Moore was a winner in the February Super Bowl Snacks haiku contest. Her poem was published in the printed editions of Contra Costa Times and Tri-Valley Herald. It also appeared online in the San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune where it was linked to encyclopedia.com.
If wisdom is knowing what to do next, then we become wise by being foolish, and experimenting until we see what works. In our writing, that might mean letting our characters, or even story arcs, wander about a little, until the true path is revealed; keeping patience until the wise agent who recognizes our value …
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What does it take to make it as a freelance writer in today’s stressed economy? Two local magazine editors, LeeAnne Jones, Managing Editor of Diablo and Napa Sonoma magazines and Peggy Spear, editor of Bay Area Parent, have the inside track, and will share their best tips at Tri-Valley’s first meeting of 2010. Expect to …
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Every year I clear my closet of clothes I haven’t worn for awhile. Occasionally a treasure surfaces, but usually I find items that really need to go. Perhaps we should try the same thing with our writing – go through old notes, ancient outlines and scraps of ideas. If there’s a hidden treasure lurking in …
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Annette Langer’s travel book, A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the World, will be released by the end of January 2010. The book chronicles her travels to all seven continents and the adventures that happened along the way.
Janie Hodges’ article “Teacher’s Kindness Goes On” was published on January 2, 2010, by the Bay Area Newspaper Group.
Violet Carr Moore’s true-life story “Miracle on a Train” was published in Christmas Miracles, an anthology by Cecil Murphey (St. Martin’s Press, October 13, 2009). She has also had two poems published in the Time Out section of The Valley Times and Tri-Valley Herald.
Patty Flaherty’s story “The Seating Plan” was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love on Dec 29. Her short story Pillion won an honorable mention for the Carolyn A. Clark Flash Fiction contest, sponsored and judged by Carolyn A. Clark, National league of American Pen Women, Nob Hill Branch.
Mark Curtis is now the weekend news anchor and political reporter for WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as the key investigative and political reporter for the station.
I called Natalio in August Pine Ridge, Belize on New Year’s Eve, 2009 to catch up on the Belize Open Source property and let him know I am coming in February. Natalio said Christmas had gone well for his family and we wished each other’s families a good new year. “I just drove by the …
