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.

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

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.

Questions? Ask via our Contact page.

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.

Questions? Ask via our Contact page.

First Friday, Nov 3 — Rich Ehisen — Ace the Interview

Ace the Interview from Either Side of the Mic

Friday, November 3, 2017, 9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.

with

Rich Ehisen

Managing Editor, State Net Capitol Journal

A respected, longtime figure in the local writing and journalism community, Rich Ehisen is the managing editor of the State Net Capitol Journal, a LexisNexis publication that covers state-level public policy issues and trends nationwide. He is also a regular contributor to Comstock’s, where his monthly column Discourse features a direct Q&A conversation with some of the Capital Region’s legislative leaders and decision makers. His work has also appeared in a number of other regional and national publications, including Government Technology, Sunset, San Francisco, Sacramento and Capitol Weekly.

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.

First Friday, Oct. 6 — Barbara Link — Compelling Characters

“Creating Compelling Characters”

Friday, October 6, 2017, 9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.

with

Barbara Link

Winner of the Bazzanella Prize for Fiction

“Love your characters!” says Barbara Link, award-winning California author and poet, Barbara Link. She would know, having produced numerous successful works, including three stories aired on KVPR, a National Public Radio Affiliate. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in literary magazines and small presses. She received the CSUS Bazzanella Prize for fiction. Her memoir, BLUE SHY was published in 2010 and awarded First Prize in the Sacramento Friends of the Library First Chapter contest. She co-authored Coffee and Ink, a handbook for writing groups and was a past editor of Sacramento’s Poetry Now. Publication credits include American River Review, Poetry Now, Earth’s Daughters, Mindprint Review, Anima, Whitefish Review, Missouri Review, Women’s Compendium, Hardpan, Dead Snakes, and Earth’s Daughters.

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.