Stacey Gustafson’s book, Are You Kidding Me? My Life With an Extremely Loud Family, Bathroom Calamities, and Crazy Relatives, reached #1 Amazon Best Seller in Parenting & Family Humor and Motherhood for the second time in December 2015. Stacey was guest speaker at the Author’s Tea and Auction in Pleasanton for the Philanthropic Educational Organization, …
B. Lynn Goodwin’s debut Young Adult novel, Talent (Eternal Press), is now available. J. Mills’s short story, “Blizzard,” was published in the September edition of The MacGuffin literary journal (Summer 2015, Vol. XXXI no. 3) under his pen name, James McV. Fred Norman had his latest poem, “Can’t You Hear the …
Jordan Bernal, Paula Chinick, Mary Heaton, and Elaine Schmitz took readers on a journey around the world without ever leaving the Tri-Valley at a Bay Books Author Event on Friday, November 6, 2015. Desserts from exotic locales such as China, Greece, and Ireland were on the menu as listeners heard excerpts from their latest novels. …
Congratulations to the following Tri-Valley Writers for being selected for publication in the 2015 California Writers Club Literary Review: Sheila Bali: “Oakwud Has Done Me In” B. Lynn Goodwin: “Partners” Sally L. Kimball: “The Lost Pearl” Julaina Kleist-Corwin: “Mirror” Julie K. Royce: “Disturbance Call” and “Finding Myself in the Mission”
E. Ruth Harder’s historical novel, Hannah—Weaver of Life, is published and available at Amazon. Anne Koch’s latest non-fiction work, Nearer to Spring—A Story of Christmas Lost and Found in Letters, is published and available at Amazon.
Tri-Valley Writers members have been busy, busy, busy. Here are some recent publication successes. Stephanie Bolanos’s flash fiction story, “Faces”—the one she read at TVW’s September general meeting—has been selected as a finalist in the 2015 Short Story America contest. George Cramer’s short story, “Why Me?” is published in 0-Dark-Thirty, The Veterans Writing Project. …
Blake Heitzman‘s short story, “The Bramble Trail” is scheduled for the September 2015 issue of The Ultimate Writer after waiting three years for acceptance confirmation.
Mary Heaton won GOLD in the Travel/Guidebook Non-Fiction category in the 2015 Global Ebook Awards for Rambling Through the Emerald Isle. Sharon Svitak, writing as Sharon Burgess, won SILVER in the Fiction-Romance/Erotica (Contemporary) category in the 2015 Global Ebook Awards for Simply Irresistible: A Spruce Creek Romance.
Daniel Hobbs, writing as Ben Leiter,) published his novel, Baby Boomers’ Love-Betrayal, in August 2015.
George Cramer participated in two panels, “Writing in Different Genres” and “The Art of Writing Novels and Short Stories,” at the Public Safety Writers Association annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in July. George’s short story “Why Me?” won third place. Julie Royce also took part in the panel entitled “Writing in Different Genres” at the Public Safety …
