While wandering in an antique shop, I noticed a simple but elegant bookcase filled with beautiful linens. On top of the stack on the highest shelf was a very realistic toy cat. I had to stretch to reach it. I tugged on its foot to determine if it was stuffed with kapok or buckwheat. The […]
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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
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Andrew Peterson will discuss plotting and writing thrillers at the next TVW meeting. The author of two novels, First to Kill and Forced to Kill, Peterson began writing fiction in 1990. He sold a short story, “Mr. Haggarty’s Stop”, to San Diego Writers Monthly in October, 1992. He continued to write exploring both the novel
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An article by CWC Tri-Valley member Wendy Smith to promote Cushing’s Awareness Day was published in the Pleasanton Patch:http://pleasanton.patch.com/articles/cushing-s-survivor-and-pleasnaton-resident-danielle-ziatek-tells-patch-how-a-nutritionist-s-hunch-saved-her-life?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001
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Four CWC Tri-Valley poets were honored at Livermore in Art & Words artist reception April 14, 2012. Among the poems displayed were “Devinely Vine”, “Imagine This” and “Like Fine Wine” by LaDonna Fehlberg; “Welcoming Committee” and “Visit to Alden Lane” by Alice Kight; “Vineyards of Livermore” and Twenty Minutes to Sunset” by Marilyn Slade; and
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To be a leader, be a bridge. – Welsh proverb Tri-Valley Writers been a bridge since 2005, bringing writers together to share information and ideas. Club members span all generations and all genres. While we still boast of members who joined when the corner stones were set, we are growing month by month. We are
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Dear Poets, You have brought us to tears and mended broken hearts. You have taken us to faraway places and brought us home again. We salute you in April, National Poetry Month. ~Violet Carr Moore
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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,
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Stacey Gustafson has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Mothers & Daughters.
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Rock ‘n ‘Roll in Locker Seventeen, a young adult novel by Shannon Brown, and Crossing Paths, a mystery by Violeta (Vee) Byram have passed the first level for the Amazon Breaththrough Novel competition. Mercury’s Rise (Poisoned Pen Press, 2011) by Ann Parker has been nominated for the Agatha Christie and the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical
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