First Friday, Feb 2 – Book Salesmanship

Book Salesmanship

with

Linda Champion

Author and District Champion at Toastmaster’s International

Friday, February 2, 2018

9-11 AM Coco’s, 7887 Madison Avenue, Citrus Heights

Linda Champion knows how to invite people into her book. You know her when you see her, because she is often in costume. With her husband Ken, a poet and musician, she has participated in dozens of book and craft festivals, and other special events. Among her appearances: Orange County Children’s Book Festival, Great Valley Bookfest, Fairytale Town’s Children’s Book Festival, and the California Author’s Invitational-State Fair. She has made several TV and radio appearances.

Linda’s Fairy Tales for Life: A Collection of Fourteen Original Short Stories won First Place in Children’s Books at the 2015 San Francisco Book Festival and First Place in Children’s Books, at the 2016 Amsterdam Book Festival. Earlier this year she was invited to visit the Hans Christian Anderson Museum in Denmark. She maintains a close relationship with this museum.

A retired high school teacher, Linda (ChampionWritingCreations.com) is a CWC Sacramento board member and District Winner of Toastmasters, International Club, “Spellbinders.” She has made several presentations on the subject of fairy tales, most recently at the North State Writers Branch of CWC.

Linda is currently working on a second book of fairy tales. She has also written a memoir called Conversations with My Auntie Margaret About Sporty Dog.

The California Writers Club–Sacramento Branch Networking Meeting is held the first Friday of every month at Coco’s Restaurant, 7887 Madison Avenue, Citrus Heights, at the corner of Madison and Sunrise, starting at 9 a.m. Meetings are free. Attendees pay for their own breakfast.

Questions? Ask via our Contact page.

Luncheon, Jan 20 – Love and Sex on the Page

Love and Sex on the Page

featuring

Joey Garcia

Award-Winning Writer, Columnist & Relationship Expert

Feel free to bring short examples, 3-4 sentences good and bad!!!

Saturday, January 20 11 AM–1:00 PM (10:15 Early-Bird Session TBA)

Cattlemens, 12409 Folsom Blvd, $15 members/$20 guests (includes lunch)

Photo credit: Kendall Tobe

Joey Garcia tells it straight – her writing contains scenes that illuminate relationships. It’s up to the writer to learn how to do it effectively. Joey promises to plunge in – providing examples to the Ca Writers Club Sacramento.

As Sacramento’s best-known “relationship” columnist, Joey draws on 21-plus years of dispensing relationship advice to 300,000 weekly readers in in the Sacramento News & Review. Her book, When Your Heart Breaks, It’s Opening to Love: Healing and finding love after an affair, heartbreak or divorce, was selected as a 2014 CSUS Summer Read . A year later, the book – published by a company Garcia started — won a national Bronze Living Now award that recognizes books that inspire tolerance and forgiveness.

Joey has been featured in the Huffington Post, Sacramento Magazine, Sacramento Bee, Good Day Sacramento, Capital Public Radio’s “Insight,” KQED radio, KFBK radio, KCRA-TV, and ABC10-TV. She’s currently the Relationship Expert for Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto Fox 40 News and fills in as a host for The Pat Walsh Show on NewsRadio KFBK.

Her poems, essays, and short stories have been published in literary journals and received international awards. In 2014 her poem, “After 9/11,” was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. She has received poetry fellowships in Spoleto and Paris.

In 2004, Joey created Rise Up Belize! Advancement through Education, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of over 1,000 children and more than 500 teachers in her native Belize, Central America. She also launched a leadership program that has trained more than 100 Sacramento-area teen girls in skills that translate to workplace success. Joey has taught relationship education programs in schools, shelters, jails and the Learning Exchange.

Joey founded the Belize Writers’ Conference with an inaugural date of April 23 -28, 2018, for memoir, fiction, and nonfiction writers who are ready for manuscript critiques by two New York literary agents and a writing coach/author.

Luncheon 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Early Bird special 10:45 – Common Query Letter Mistakes, presented by Ted Witt

Luncheon Information

Monthly Luncheons are open to the public
Cost is $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers
The meeting fee includes speaker, lunch and beverage
Cattlemens Restaurant, 12409 Folsom Blvd., Rancho Cordova, CA

The restaurant is located just east of Hazel Ave. at the northeast end of the Nimbus Winery complex along Highway 50. Cattlemens offers CWC a spacious meeting room with free WiFi, quality AV equipment, free off street parking and excellent food.

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First Friday, Jan 5 – Fabricated Fiction

The Real World of Fabricated Fiction

with

Kathy Boyd Fellure

Women’s Fiction & Children’s Book Author & Host of Annual Literary Read

Friday, January 5, 2018

9-11 AM Coco’s, 7887 Madison Avenue, Citrus Heights

How can reality be threaded through the narrative lens of Settings, Character, Plot, and Dialogue? Kathy Boyd Fellure will address this topic at the First Friday Network meeting of 2018. She will also cover how to turn inanimate objects into characters in our stories. Join us for an informative presentation which will include a short writing exercise.

Kathy Boyd Fellure is author of four children’s books. She also writes contemporary women’s fiction, including a completed novel trilogy, On the Water’s Edge, represented by Wendy Lawton of Books & Such Literary Management. The Language of the Lake, was released earlier this year. Her novel Across the Pond, is set in England. Kathy is founder of Amador Fiction Writers. With experience in interviewing authors for media broadcast, she hosts an annual literary read and exhibits her photography. Kathy lives in the foothill gold country with her family and two stand-up comedian dogs. Recently she facilitated in the branch California Writers Week Fiction panel held at Barnes and Noble.

Questions? Ask via our Contact page.

Luncheon

A luncheon meeting will not be held in December. We will reconvene on January 20th. Happy Holidays!

Luncheon Information

Monthly Luncheons are open to the public
Cost is $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers
The meeting fee includes speaker, lunch and beverage
Cattlemens Restaurant, 12409 Folsom Blvd., Rancho Cordova, CA

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First Friday, Dec 1 – Write a Book in the New Year

2018 is the Year You Should Write a Book

Ten Reasons (Or 20 or 30) Tell You Why

Friday, December 1, 2017, 9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.

with

Maryellen Burns

Published Author and Editor

“There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart,” wrote Samuel Johnson, “a desire of distinction, which inclines every man to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given himself something peculiar to himself.”

What better distinction on display than in a book? Maryellen Burns will guide a conversation on how to write, edit, design, publish, and market a book in 12 months, and why it is important to every writer, regardless of genre. She is the author or editor of multiple books through traditional publishers and her own Indie press including Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes; Extracts – Mostly True Stories; and Whip Up a Cookbook. She has been a ghost writer, set up author tours and west coast promotions for Ten Speed Press, Simon and Schuster, Chronicle and Prima Publishing. She also teaches and produces books with the I Street Press and more recently facilitated a series for Indie Writers and Publishers for the Renaissance Society at CSUS and Morning Coffee Press in Midtown.

Questions? Ask via our Contact page.