Past Meetings

February 15, 2014: Soundtracks for Books

Jason Hovey, vice president of business development for Booktrack, will be our February 15 speaker. Jason’s presentation will be the Booktrack content and distribution platform that turns reading into an immersive movie-like experience. Booktrack’s patented technology lets anyone add a synchronized movie-style soundtrack to an e-book or other digital text content, while pacing the audio to each […]

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December 21, 2013: Bring Your Creativity To Your Book Marketing

It’s not about the “right way,” but what is right for you Beth Barany will be the guest speaker at our December  21, 2013, meeting at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Beth Barany, a coach and award-winning novelist, will introduce an approach to marketing your work based on your work creative type and

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November Workshop: Create a Culture (or Society) from Scratch

Discover the working principles of building a successful story world. Juliette Wade will conduct a workshop on November 16 on the fundamentals of world building a fundamental task for a writer of any genre. Learn how characters act as ambassadors for their worlds, and how to use them to convey key information to the reader. We will discuss

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Open Mic Night with My Friends August 12, 2013

You don’t have to wait until September to get together again with your fellow Tri-Valley Writers. Join the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch in collaboration with the Pleasanton Library for “Open Mic Night with My Friends” on Monday night August 12, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. This event will be held at the Pleasanton Public Library, 400 Old Bernal Avenue.

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Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time

Jordan E. Rosenfeld will be the guest speaker at our next monthly meeting on Saturday, June  15, 2013, at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Jordan E. Rosenfeld, author of the popular writing guide Make a Scene and the debut novel Forged in Grace, will teach you how to activate your writing, creating the page-turning energy of

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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

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