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 …
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.
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.”
Congratulations to Vicky Hudson, a participant in the Pulitzer Remix project which unites 85 poets to create found poetry from the 85 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction-winning texts. Beginning April 1, each poet will write and post one poem per day on the project website, http://www.pulitzerremix.com. The project will generate more than 2,500 found poems.
Congratulations to Shelley Riley on the publication of her first book, Casual Lies-A Triple Crown Adventure, the true story of a thoroughbred colt bought for a song and the female trainer who recognized his potential. The memoir relates the triumphs and hardships experienced by the horse Casual Lies and his trainer along the trail to …
“Burt’s Bees” is funnier than “Neosporin.” But it’s too late. I sent the story off this morning. No piece is ever finished (complete?). They dwell in perpetual draft mode well beyond the submission date. I never forward the same story to more than one publication, despite the fact that they have identical titles, themes, plots …
Susan Sachs Lipman’s program in March gave me lots of ideas for my as-yet-uncreated website, and my needs-to-be-updated blog site, as well as the impetus to become an expert in my field (what, you didn’t realize you need to know about quilting science fiction?). I left the meeting feeling enlightened and energized. So what should …
No, I don’t mean odds. The odds are against me would be a cliché, not an acceptable title for a modern blogger. See, there it is again—the OG in blogger—a person who writes a blog. That would be me as I hurl this post into the blogosphere (another OG) where blogs reside. Add a single …
Linda Lee will be the guest speaker at our next monthly meeting on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. What should a great author’s website look like? Linda Lee will discuss the key components of a website including social media badges, a sales page for your book, sample …
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6:30 Repeat five times, “Today is the day I am going to work on my NOVEL.” 6:40 Brush teeth. Check email. Oh boy, 40 new messages. Delete 39. 6:50 Wake up son for school, start breakfast, tidy up kitchen, run a load of laundry, drive son to school. 8:00 Check Internet. Must know more about sinkhole in …
