Jay Greenwood has served as Chief Consultant in the California State Legislature for many years. His professional career has been devoted to writing about complex political issues, including extensive studies of the role of money in election campaigns as well as analyses of legislation dealing with wide ranging subjects. His work has produced numerous publications by the State of California. Jay is a veteran of the Vietnam War and, among other awards, he received the Vietnamese Medal of Honor. He has an undergraduate degree in English and a graduate degree in Political Science.

 Jay’s novel, Race to Marathon, will be published in May, 2018. The story is set during the world’s first clash of civilizations long ago. The vast Persian Empire already dominates nearly half of the earth’s entire population, but Persia’s Great King now has his sights on Greece. Will love, valor, and cunning be enough to save the West? Race to Marathon vividly imagines a key moment in history—the Battle of Marathon. The action unfolds through the eyes and voices of its participants—valiant women, fearsome warriors, and shrewd leaders—woven into a fabric of intrigue and passion.

And the goddesses are watching.

www.AncientGreecePersia.com

 

 

Kimberly A. Edwards, author of 200 articles and narrative nonfiction works, and of Sacramento Motorcycling, A Capital City Tradition (1910-60; Arcadia Press 2021) has championed writing for 40 years. In the 1980’s she founded a 12-page monthly writer’s newsletter that gained mention in Publishers Weekly. Her credits include Writer’s Digest, International Travel News, The Times of India, The Sacramento Bee,  Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors), Independent (Independent Book Publishers Association), Sacramento News and Review, Senior Spectrum, Food Wine and Travel Magazine, and California Literature Review. In her Memories and Memoir Seminar, she helped attendees turn memories into enduring stories. She has studied at Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop (Literary Nonfiction. Fiction, Hybrid) and Squaw Valley of Writers (Fiction). Examples of work: “The Identity List, How to Catalog Your Written Work to Get More Freelance Writing Projects,” http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/freelance-writing/freelance-writing-projects-querying-editors-catalog,  “Scene, Heard, Laced and Loved,” http://www.asja.org/theword/2015/04/13/scene-heard-laced-and-loved-trends-in-long-form/ and “My New Spanish Loves,” https://www.asja.org/blog/2681-2/ She is recent past president of the California Writers Club Sacramento and has served in various officer positions. In 2013 she received the Jack London Award for service to the club. Contact Kim at kimberlyedwards00@comcast.net.

Lisa James was born and raised in Northern California, and lives with a menagerie of two dogs and four cats. After taking early retirement from her position as a Human Resources Specialist for the U.S. Geographical Survey, she dug out a manuscript she’d written several years earlier, polished it up, and sent it off, resulting in a contract with an epublisher, Uncial Press. Her ebook, Ballantyne’s Battle, is now available on Amazon. She is currently (Spring 2018) working on requested edits from her second novel, Have Mercy, also contracted with Uncial Press. She will submit her third novel, Harper’s Chance, once the edits on the second are done, in the hope that a contract will result from that one too. She is very active in cat and kitten fostering for a local rescue group and has started writing a book on being an Honest-To-Goodness Cat Lady. She has also taken up English horseback riding lessons again and hopes to once again own her own horse. When not writing and riding, her time is filled with hiking, cross training, yoga, doing crosswords, and, of course, reading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robin Ginley has been a member of the CWC-Sacramento Branch Non-Fiction networking group for over ten years. She often volunteers to write the speaker notes during the first Friday club speaker (s) presentations for publication in the Club’s monthly newsletter, Sacramento Writer.

She began her career in writing through her interest in journalism and publishing for magazines. Her professional background in counseling enriches her non-fiction writing platform. Robin is excited to write non-fiction book reviews for her counseling association’s clinical trade magazine, The Therapist. She is proud to have received a Gold Circle award for third place in literary fiction for her short story Radios, published in the American River Review in 2009.

She continues to benefit extensively as a writer through attending a professional critique group for over a year. She won second place in the CWC-Sacramento Branch short short story contest for her story, The Chair. Robin thrives on the inspiration, knowledge and dynamic energy she takes away from her membership in the CWC-Sacrmento Branch NF Club. She can be reached at robinginley@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Blaney is a multi-award-winning artist and author. One highlight of her career: attending a garden party at Buckingham Palace for members of the Royal Society of the Arts, where she was presented to HRH Prince Philip.

Her art books:

• Little Book About Pastel, a small but comprehensive book on pastel.
• Award-winning Adventure in Color, the Impressionism of Anita Wolff, with forty vibrant illustrations of Anita Wolff’s work.
• Impressionism – the Inspiration and Evolution, will be released in 2018

Her novels:

• Somewhere the Road Turns, a contemporary novel about a young woman struggling against the dictates of her wealthy grandmother when family secrets are revealed and her life is changed forever.
• So the River Flows, Suzanne’s historical romance novel follows a young American woman studying fashion design in Paris as political turbulence grows and Parisians scoff at Hitler’s Nazi party. Jennifer becomes romantically involved with a young Frenchman who disappears after Hitler invades France, lives in Paris under the Nazis until she escapes back to America, then builds a life as a presumed widow, working amidst the heights of Hollywood’s “Golden Radio” era, and ultimately returning to Paris with her work.

Suzanne Blaney’s books are available at Amazon and other outlets.