Arleen Eagling published in Thema
Arleen Eagling’s short story “Half a Good Chance,” has been accepted for publication by the Thema Literary Society. It will appear in A Week and a Day summer 2013 issue.
California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch
Shelley Riley featured at Towne Center Books
Shelley Riley, author of Casual Lies – A Triple Crown Adventure, was featured by Towne Center Books on May 3, 2013 for a celebration of the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby. Friends and fans donned their Kentucky Derby finery and drank a Mint Julep while Shelley took them behind the scenes at the Kentucky Derby. Shelley …
When a stranger called me a writer by Lani Longshore
I spent the last week in April at the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) conference in Santa Fe. During one of the evening meet-and-greets, I was introduced to the woman in charge of blogs for the Northern California region. I mentioned my quilting sci-fi novels, and offered to write a blog about my experience as …
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May 2013 President’s Message by Paula Chinick
There is an old saying that you get back more than what you give. It has been true for me. As a volunteer for the Tri-Valley Writers and other nonprofit organizations in the area, I have had opportunities to meet people I would never have encountered otherwise. Many of these people have become lifelong …
Julie Royce receives honorable mention for short story
Julie Royce‘s short story, “Headed North on a Southern Highway,” received second honorable mention and publication in an anthology, Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the ’60s & ’70s. Release date is scheduled for August 2013.
Sweet News about Self-Promotion by Lani Longshore
I self published a second quilting science fiction novel, When Chenille Is Not Enough, with coauthor Ann Anastasio. We were offered a free ad in the program for the Studio Art Quilt Associates conference in April. Since quilters are our target audience, we jumped at the opportunity. We didn’t read the fine print, however, which stipulated the size …
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May 18, 2013: Young Adult at Heart: How Voice, Subject Matter and Characterization Separate YA from Adult Genre
Gretchen McNeill will be the guest speaker at our next monthly meeting on Saturday, May 18, 2013, at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Gretchen McNeil is an opera singer, clown, and writer. She has written the Young Adult horror POSSESS about a teen exorcist which debuted in 2011. Her follow up, TEN …
J. K. Royce publishes first novel
J. K. Royce has published Pilz, her first novel. It is a suspense story that explores the sleazy underside of the medical profession, a world she witnessed when she was a state assistant attorney general in Michigan. Pilz is available on amazon.com in printed and Kindle versions.
Lani Longshore publishes second novel in Chenille series
Lani Longshore has published When Chenille is Not Enough (co-authored with Ann Anastasio). This second in a series is the continuing adventures of quilters saving the world from invading space aliens. Available from Wingspan Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords.
Tri-Valley Writers in California Writers Club Literary Review
Four members of Tri-Valley Writers have been published in the Winter 2012-2013 issue of The California Writers Club Literary Review. Congratulations to poets Jamuna Advani for “Vengeance” and Alice Kight for “Papa’s Turn” and to fiction prose authors Paula Chinick for “Hidden Discovery” and Julaina Kleist-Corwin for “Fried Chicken Talks.”