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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.

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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.


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.

Filed Under: Writers NetworkTagged With: california writers club, cwc sacramento, writers club

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.


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.

Filed Under: Writers NetworkTagged With: california writers club, cwc sacramento, writers club

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 fr Ten Speed Press, Simon and Shuster, 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.


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.

Filed Under: Writers NetworkTagged With: california writers club, cwc sacramento, writers club

First Friday, Dec 1 — Getting Published

Getting Published:

2% Inspiration, 98% Perspiration

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

with

Al Zagofsky

Online Magazine Publisher

 

 

For 15 years, Al Zagofsky served as a correspondent for the Times News, a regional newspaper in Pennsylvania, where he contributed over 2,000 stories. He also contributed to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the West Sacramento News-Ledger, Pennsylvania Magazine and Honda Tuning Magazine. He has published The Lehigh River and Canal at Jim Thorpe, PA, The Lehigh Gorge Trail Guide, and Return From Oblivion. For the past 12 years, he has been the publisher of an online e-magazine, JT Today/Carbon County Magazine/California Update. He will be talking about his experiences in journalism and publications, how to write stories for publication, and how to get published.

 


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.

Filed Under: Writers NetworkTagged With: california writers club, cwc sacramento, writers club

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