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 …
Arushi Avachat has self-published a new book, When Love Dies & Other Stories. Her book launch was at Inklings in Pleasanton on April 27. Several of Arushi’s short stories are award winners in contests for teens.
Barbara Flores‘ memoir, Separated Acting Badly: For the Love of Food, A Man, and Me, is now available on Amazon (Kindle and paperback). Barbara’s funny, and ultimately family-affirming book chronicles the transition from marriage to divorce, and what she learned from herself and her well-meaning friends. Alice Kight‘s poem “Beloved Eyewitness” won first place in …
Anne Manay released Unclean on February 19, 2019. Her new book is a sequel to her fantasy novel Hexborn, which she released in 2018. Vidhima Shetty was featured in The Pleasanton Weekly for her book An Adolescent’s Guide to ME/CFS.
Neva (Janie) Hodges’ first five pages of Against the Wall, her novel in progress, was a semifinalist in the Mount Hermon Writing Conference “Promising Beginnings” contest. Yvonne Carder, writing as Yvonne Brandenburg, published Pet Health Journal: A 6 Month Journal For Medications, Exams, & Healthy Living.
Congratulations to TVW members who participated in the Livermore Library Indie Author Day event on October 13. Ann Parker moderated the program, and Andy Weir, New York Times best-selling author of The Martian and Artemis, was the keynote speaker. Jordan Bernal, Eloise Hamann, E. Ruth Harder, Julaina Kleist-Corwin, Annette Langer, and J.D. Lassica were among the fifteen Bay Area independently …
On September 29, 2018, more than 60 members of the fourteen CWC branches in northern California met for a day-long conference at National University in Pleasant Hill. TVW past president and NorCal Rep, Jordan Bernal; Vice President, Marilyn Dykstra; Newsletter Editor, Patricia Boyle; and Membership Chair, Haihong Liao represented Tri-Valley Writers at the event. Jordan Bernal gave the keynote talk, …
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Shannon Brown has published Parlor Tricked, a novel about a reluctant psychic, a dead rock star, and a cursed linen outlet, all in suburban Ohio. Parlor Tricked is available on Amazon. Stacey Gustafson has released Are You Still Kidding Me? This second book in her humor collection is available on Amazon. She also draws from hilarious experiences to shape …
Art Tenbrink won the award for Best Poem on the 2018 Alameda County Fair Theme “Summertime Fun” for his poem, “Route 66 Revisited.” Patricia Boyle won an honorable mention award for her poem, “Aurora,” in the Poetry in a Test Tube: Livermore’s Second Annual Science Poetry Contest. Arushi Avachat won third place …
Two members had work published in The 2018 California Writers Club Literary Review. Connie Hanstedt, two poems, “Waiting for the Fisherman,” and “Satin Slippers.” Julaina Kleist-Corwin, memoir, “Care.” Yvonne Carder published, Luminata, the first book in the Meclauks Kingdom Young Adult fantasy series. Behind castle walls, Jessi Kleinfield dreams of …
