Bernard Wozny, Author at California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch

John Patterson

John Patterson started working as a kid. He’s worked in a variety of service, retail, as well as light and heavy blue-collar gigs for almost a decade. After law school and clerking at the California Supreme Court, he practiced law for almost twenty years before going into education for almost twenty years. He retired from public secondary education teaching and administration positions. He’s served on five boards, including our CWC-Sac Board for two years. He hosts our Open Readings, which he started four years ago. He’s written for work, but now he is currently writing a memoir based on his childhood. When not writing, seeing family, or travelling, he tells true stories. He is screening for beta readers. Contact him at: 2johnpatterson@gmail.com

EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES TO SELL YOUR BOOKS

The CWC Board is working hard to find new opportunities for you to sell your books. Read on for more information.

Sacramento Book Fair, Sunday June 2, 2024, McKinley Park

AND

Roseville Tuesday Night Market, consecutive Tuesday nights from June 4 to July 30, 2024

SACRAMENTO BOOK FESTIVAL

Sacramento has not experienced a book festival in many years. We are excited to restart such an important event in Sacramento. We intend to develop this into an annual Sacramento Capital Experience.

In association with McKinley Farmers Market in Sacramento, we have arranged for 10 booths for authors to promote and sell their books. Booking details are available on our website.

www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/sacramento-book-festival/

You will find details on what you need and how to organize your booth. Save or print this PDF for future reference.

Sharing a booth with another author is not essential, but it does help spread the cost and encourages collaboration. Customers are always excited to be greeted with authors.

Join us at the Book Festival, let’s rekindle a new tradition in Sacramento.

ROSEVILLE DOWNTOWN TUESDAY NIGHT MARKET

CWC has reserved one 10’x10’ space at the Roseville Downtown Tuesday Night Market, on nine consecutive Tuesday nights (from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.) from June 4 to July 30, 2024. The market is held on Vernon Street, adjacent to the Vernon Street Town Square, in Roseville. The Tuesday night markets have been hugely successful in the past, typically bringing in thousands of people every Tuesday night during the summer.

Click here to book your Tuesday at Roseville!

CWC Sacramento Branch members have priority to participate. The application is on the CWC website. The cost is $60 per night. We recommend you share a booth with an author friend or colleague; if you share a booth, the cost is only $30 per author. To ensure your space, please complete an application and mail a check as soon as possible. CWC Sacramento Branch members’ priority lasts until May 15, 2024.

Authors should have a California seller’s permit and are responsible for bringing their own table and chair. As it can be hot in the summer months, we also strongly recommend that you bring a 10’x10’ pop-up tent.

Jordan Rosenfeld: How to Write a Page Turner – Mastering the Art of Tension

Jordan Rosenfeld will be presenting at Arcade Library

2443 Marconi Ave, Sacramento, CA 95821

on Saturday April 20th, 2024 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

To keep a story taut, and to hold readers’ attention, you must learn to write with tension. Tension in novels, stories, and even memoirs is like the connective tissue that allows muscles to attach to bones, and thus flex their might. It’s the heart of conflict, the backbone of uncertainty, the hallmark of danger. It requires opposing forces, danger, conflict and a whole lot more at the scene level, and at the plot level. Learn to understand essential kinds of tension to write page turning stories.

What attendees will learn:

Four key “elements” of tension.
How to work with character goals and flaws to create inner tension.
How to insure you’ve got a tense inciting incident.
How to tighten the tension of your plot’s energetic markers.
Ways to balance scene elements for maximum tension…and much more.

Jordan Rosenfeld is author of the forthcoming novel Fallout (Running Wild Press), as well as the novels Women in Red and Forged in Grace and six books on writing craft, most recently How to Write a Page-Turner. Her freelance articles and essays have appeared in hundreds of national publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and more. She is a freelance manuscript editor and writing teacher. Jordanrosenfeld.net.

Sacramento Book Festival – Apply for a Table

The board of CWC Sacramento has booked an indoor venue at Shepard Garden and Arts Center, where we will hold the Sacramento Book Festival. Tables will be laid out indoors and can accommodate 2 authors. Only 1 person needs to apply for a table, if you wish to share a booth it is the responsibility of one author to make a single application for both people.

Please reserve your table and pay online here. This link will direct you to the Sacramento Book Festival website. There is an online form to fill out, be sure to include your email. When you submit that form, Scott Coatsworth will contact you by email and send you the payment link.

Price per table is $50. You can discuss with Scott if you want to pay online, or send a check.

Tables and chairs will be provided at the venue. It is the responsibility of all authors to set up their own table. Check here how to set up your table.

Literary Review – The Sacramento Winners.

Thank you to everyone from Sacramento who submitted prose and poetry to the Literary Review.

Doubly so, thank you to everyone who voted for you, the winners who will now be published.

As many people did, I spent a lot of time reading every entry. Every prose entry blew me away. I can’t pretend to understand poetry, but many entries sent me to places I would never expect to go to.

Thank you to everyone who worked hard at this!

The names below are those authors from Sacramento who will be published in the CWC 2024 Literary Review.