I returned from a two-week holiday and looked at my notes for the next section of my novel. After much consideration, I realized I had no idea what I meant when I wrote those notes. There was no obvious pick-up line, and once again I remembered why I don’t knit―I could never find my way […]
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“I couldn’t see how to make it funny, so I went full-on heartwarming this time.” That’s how I explained the difference in tone from previous pieces I had asked my good friend and trusted critic, Stacey, to read. Before starting the piece, I had combed through stories from one edition of the popular anthology series
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David Congalton will share the agony and ecstasy of chasing your screenwriting dreams as the guest speaker for the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. David Congalton is a radio talk show host and writer who spent 25 years chasing his
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Fred Norman has published several works; A Hill of Poems, a poem and a mini-short piece in Julaina Kleist-Corwin’s anthology, Written Across the Genres, and a poem and prose in David Madgalene’s anthology, World of Change: New Way Media Fest.
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Deborah Grossman’s poem “One Morning in Kowloon Park” won second place in the Nature category in the Ina Coolbirth Contest in October and was published in the Ina Coolbrith Circle Poetry Anthology 2013-14, The Gathering. On the journalism side of her writing, Deborah often publishes in national publications, but she especially enjoyed working on an article in the February issue
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Deborah ‘Jordan’ Bernal’s book launch for The Keepers of Eire will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2 p.m., at Irish Castle Shop, 537 Geary, San Francisco (between Taylor and Jones). Join her in celebrating her first novel.
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Neva “Janie” Hodges short story, “The Christmas Tree,” has been accepted in a compilation of true Christmas romance stories written by various authors. Harlequin published it under the title, A Kiss Under the Mistletoe, by author Jennifer Basye Sander. You can find it on Amazon.com or kindle.
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Tri-Valley Writers has selected Violet Carr Moore to receive the 2013 Jack London Service Award for her outstanding service to the branch. Violet Carr Moore is the author of In the Right Place and Moments of Meditation. She has had many of her short stories and poems published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Christmas
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Patricia Marshall will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, September 21, 2013, at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Writer and editor Patricia Marshall, who has helped more than a dozen authors self-publish, will walk you through the steps you need to
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Annette Langer was interviewed by the editor of We Magazine for Women highighting women in public service. Annette was asked about her career experiences working for the Federal Government and as a police volunteer. Read her story, including highlights of her writing career, in We Magazine for Women.
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