One hundred years ago, a colorful cast of characters founded the California Writers Club “to mentor and educate writers of all levels in the art and craft of writing.” This October, Tri-Valley Writers will celebrate CWC’s Centennial with a birthday bash devoted to character. What’s a story – or a club – without great characters? …
Patty Flaherty Pagan has a poem in The Light In Ordinary Things, an uplifiting collection of poems published by Fearless Books. The collection is available in paperback on Amazon.com.
Violet Carr Moore is a winner in the Autumnal Haiku contest sponsored by Bay Area News Group. Her haiku appeared in all October 5 printed editions and in the Inside Bay Area online edition.
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 …
