Mary Boyce memoir published
Call Me Pop, a memoir of her father by Mary Boyce, is available from www.Amazon.com.
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Tri-Valley Writers
Jackie Barsley and Alice Kight published
Jackie Bardsley and Alice Kight will both be featured in the Ina Coolbrith 2011 anthology to be published in November. Bardsley’s “The Seduction” and Kight’s “Tomorrow’s Roses” will appear in the anthology named for California’s first poet laureate (1915).
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The only bad publicity is no publicity! by Annette Langer
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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Nora Profit, Why Your Book May Never Get on the Shelf
Nora Profit, director of The Writing Loft, will reveal the clues that mark the difference between trained writers and amateurs. Publishers and editors are willing to look at new writers, but they are leery about taking a chance on a writer unfamiliar with the rules of the craft. “With the right information, anyone can write
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Speak to the future by Lani Longshore
An ancient Egyptian maxim reads: “It is good to speak to the future; it shall listen.” The Egyptians honored scribes – writers – and even gave them to the care of Thoth, who was also the god of knowledge and truth. We should take instruction – and comfort – from ancient writers, and speak our
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I Bought It! It’s Mine! (Isn’t it?) by Annette Langer
My book manuscript was finished finally. Now all I needed was an eye-catching book cover. The perfect choice for Healing through Humor: Change Your Focus, Change Your Life! was an oil painting I’d owned for over 35 years. It pictured a seated clown listening to his own heart with a stethoscope, a medical book open
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The GPS I Want by Lani Longshore
Even with good maps and detailed directions, I get lost. My husband gave me a GPS for Christmas, which has cut down the number of times I miss turns because I can’t read the street signs. As much as I value my map-reading skills, having Miss MapVoice tell me “turn left now” has proven more
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Summer and TVW
TVW members have been busy writing, regardless of the obstacles (read Annette Langer’s blog below for proof). The anthology is on-track for publication this fall. It will feature short stories, memoir, poetry and children’s stories from over forty members. The authors have been working all summer on the pieces, while the anthology committee has been
Random Thoughts While on Drugs , by Annette Langer
They say bringing reading material to the hospital helps to fill the days, but I didn’t want to read after my recent spinal surgery. I wanted to write about nurses who administered medications at regular intervals, even waking me during the night to take my sleeping pill. My struggle to untangle my hospital gown from
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Ann Koch, Sondra Perry, Sharon Svitak – words and work
Ann Koch has published her first book. It’s All About the Story–Composing a Life in Books is about places and times where books, especially popular mysteries and detective fiction, make a difference in our increasingly technology-focused world. Sondra Perry, held a book signing for Henry the Heron at Read Booksellers in Blackhawk Plaza, Danville, Tuesday,
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