At the San Francisco Writers Conference, I spoke on a panel with Camille Cusumano and Kate Farrell. We discussed our different experiences with putting together an anthology. Camille is the editor of four literary travel anthologies and Kate co-edited Times They were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60’s & 70’s. As you can see I talked […]
Patrick von Wiegandt and Crew at the San Francisco Writers Conference
Patrick von Wiegandt, audio recorder, for the San Francisco Writers Conference has CDs of sessions in case you missed the event. Contact him @www.vwtapes.com
California Writers Club at the San Francisco Writers Conference
Jordan Bernal and Jane Glendenning offered information at the California Writers Club table during the San Francisco Writers Conference’s Creating a Community of Readers and Writers session.
Question about Posting Interviews
I intend to post an interview a week with authors that have stories, essays, and poems in my anthology, Written Across the Genres. I’d like to know if you’d like shorter interview posts or longer ones like Gary Lea’s whose is the first. Scroll down to see the length of Gary’s interview on my February […]
Penny Warner nominated for Agatha Award
Penny Warner has been nominated for the 2013 Agatha Award in the Best Children’s and Young Adult Novel category for THE CODE BUSTERS CLUB #3: MYSTERY OF THE PIRATE’S TREASURE. Her CODE BUSTERS #2: THE HAUNTED LIGHT HOUSE was the winner of the 2012 Agatha Award last year. Penny presented with Rhys Bowen on Friday […]
Penny Warner at The San Francisco Writers Conference
Long time friend, Penny Warner and me. I had a chance to go to two of Penny’s sessions this year at the San Francisco Writers Conference and enjoyed her humor as usual.
Wired for Story by Lisa Cron
In the morning writing class I teach, we are using Wired for Story by Lisa Cron as a text book for discussion in class. The subtitle is The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence. In the Introduction, page 2, Cron states: “Our neural circuitry is designed to […]