Friday, August 7, 2015,  9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Erika Mailman, who writes Young Adult fiction as Lynn Carthage, will address the California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch Writers Network breakfast meeting on Friday, August 7, 2015.

Victory and Humiliation: writing young adult fiction means connecting with the younger self that experienced great highs and lows while navigating the minefields of high school hallways. She will talk about character and voice in teen fiction and reconnecting with the sometimes-victorious-often-humiliated kid inside us. As someone whose novel Haunted went through three agents before finding publication, she will also talk about the business of finding an agent or skipping straight to a publisher.

She is a novelist living near Sacramento. Under her real name, she was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. Born in Vermont, she has lived in Maine, Ireland, and Arizona. Erika reads voraciously, loves anything French, gets “itchy feet” to travel on a regular basis, and finds peace in the woods, in meadows, in nature. She has always been fascinated by how history allows us to imagine how people of the past lived and breathed and felt.

HAUNTED is her first young adult novel, and will be followed by the next two books in the Arnaud Legacy trilogy.

The public is invited. CWC membership not required.