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 …
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Patricia Boyle’s poem, “Unidirectional Flow” (about rivers), won third place in the adult division of Livermore’s 5th annual Science Poetry contest. John Q McDonald‘s short story “The Lorentz Contraction” was accepted for publication on-line in an upcoming issue of Sequestrum Magazine ( https://www.sequestrum.org ) The journal is available as a digital download from Smashwords or print-on-demand from …
The phone is on my desk, on speaker. I’m on hold. As I listened to the “your call is important to us” message for the tenth time, I realized this is a superb metaphor for my writing. My novel has been on hold for months. I’m not sure who I’m waiting for, or what information …
The art associations of Livermore, Pleasanton, and Dublin have put Elaine Drew’s talk on cartooning and storyboarding on their YouTube channel here. One of Monique Richardson’s short magical realism stories, “Camera with a Cost,” has captured the attention of the podcast, Pocket Pulp. Here are the links to hear her story beginning April 26, 2021: …
Jeff Casalina published his first novel, a sci-fi adventure, Infinite Wilderness, on March 24, 2021. You can purchase it through Amazon or via Jeff’s website, casalinapublishing.com Michael Ganzberger’s first book, NAIMERA: Absence of Grace,was published in early 2021 through Amazon. It’s a sci-fi techno-thriller. Visit http://ganzberger.com for current news and professional reviews of the NAIMERA series.
My current writing project is a long way from finished – it’s barely started – but that doesn’t mean I’m not already planning the next big thing. That’s sort of the way of the creative life, or at least my creative life. I surround myself with notes on potential plots, interesting titles waiting for a …
Long before the widespread Coronavirus outbreak, Violet Carr Moore wrote her first Sci-Fi short story. In the story, Laura, a travel writer, wanted to leave a protected environment to photograph the Mississippi River, but she was declared terminal and denied government permission to travel. That made her more determined to accomplish her travel goal. Nathan, …
Author and illustrator Elaine Drew will introduce artists and writers to the benefits—and fun—of cartooning at a Pleasanton Art League Zoom meeting on Monday, April 12 at 7:30 pm in her talk, “Comics and Storyboards.” The Zoom link for the free meeting will be published on the PAL website https://www.pal-art.com starting April 6. John …
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