Tri-Valley Writers are producing and publishing. Fred Norman has a new book, A Hill of Poems. This collection includes works read at various events on Lafayette’s hill of crosses. Proving that your work doesn’t have to be hot off the presses to be a hot commodity, Annette Langer had an event for her 2005 book, Healing Through …
Annette Langer presented a one-hour talk at the Pleasanton Senior Center on the benefits of humor and laughter in one’s life despite challenges. She also had a successful book signing afterwards and obtained a future speaking engagement from another organization.
Annette Langer was interviewed by the editor of We Magazine for Women highighting women in public service. Annette was asked about her career experiences working for the Federal Government and as a police volunteer. Read her story, including highlights of her writing career, in We Magazine for Women.
Annette Langer was interviewed by Kathryn Williams, a Southfield, Michigan writer, who featured a story about Annette in the June 2, 2013 edition of Detroit Healthy Living. In the article, Williams tells Annette’s story and promotes both of her books; Healing through Humor: Change Your Focus, Change Your Life and A Funny Thing Happened on …
Websites. We create them, nurture them, and sometimes want to kill them when something doesn’t work. I was trying to post a California Writers Club “Authors Spotlight” date to my website Events page, but the stupid site kept dropping the date. I tried everything I could think of, but the date just wouldn’t post. I finally …
Annette Langer was featured in an April 26, 2012 CNN iReport for her volunteer work at the Pleasanton Police Department. The article also describes her writing successes and book in progress: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-781423
I was assigned as historian for our Tri-Valley Branch of the California Writers Club. I wondered just how old one had to be to be named “historian” but figured they knew what they were doing. My uncertainty was mollified when I read the job description. The duties were described as “maintaining the archive of documents, …
My first name is not an especially difficult one to spell, or so I thought. It’s just one “A,” two “N”s, and two “E”s separated by two “T”s. Easy-peasy, right? But believe me, it’s been misspelled as Anita, Antoinette, Antonia, Annetta, and even Arlene. I found out when traveling to Egypt that the hieroglyphic equivalent …
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Two CWC Tri-Valley members are off to a great start, celebrating first success of a new year. Patricia Bacon and Annette Langer were published in volume 7 of Fox and Quill, www.foxandquill.com, an online newsletter for writers.
Imagine my surprise when I saw my name and e-mail address prominently displayed on the Catherine Coulter Web site Events page! Who is Catherine Coulter, you ask? She’s only the author of sixty-five historical romance and suspense thriller novels, that’s who! And fifty-nine of them have landed on the New York Times bestseller list. So …
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