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 […]
San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology Panel
The San Francisco Writers Conference begins Thursday, February 13th. I’ll be volunteering at the registration desk again and this year I will be speaking on an anthology panel with Barbara Santos, Kate Farrell, and Camille Cusumano. I’ll have Written Across the Genres with me to talk about the experience of putting that book together.
San Francisco Bay Bridge January 19, 2014
After the San Francisco Writers Conference volunteer meeting, we went to dinner at the Delancey Street Restaurant with a view of the S.F. Bay Bridge. Nice dinner with enthusiastic talk about the up-coming S.F. Writers Conference, February 13th through the 16th. Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada work hard to provide the best writers conference for […]
Anthology is in Final Review
The anthology title is now confirmed, Written Across the Genres, and it is at Luminare Press. I’m working with the cover designer for the finishing touches and Linda, ace copy editor, is helping me scan the PDF file to check for possible corrections. Then we get a galley proof and look the whole thing over […]
Anthology Help from Barbara Santos
I had lunch today with Rich and Barbara Santos, friends from the San Francisco Writers Conference. Barbara co-authored the anthology, Practice Aloha, with Mark Ellman. It includes stories by Wayne Dyer, Mick Fleetwood, Gov. Neil Abercrombie, Hawaiian spiritual leaders, musicians, and lots of chefs. redroom.com/member/barbara-santos. She had several suggestions for my anthology that I hope […]
Cara Black’s Aimee Leduc Series
Cara Black was the moderator for a session at the San Francisco Writers Conference in February called: Finding the 411 You Need: Doing Research for Fun & Profit. She writes the bestselling and award nominated Aimee Leduc investigation series that is set in different districts of Paris. Her next novel, Murder Below Montparnasse comes out […]
Constance Hale at S.F. Writers Conference
Constance Hale presented “How to Let Verbs Power Your Writing” on Friday, February 15th at the San Francisco Writers Conference. Hale is a San Francisco-based journalist and author and writes freelance articles for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and others. She has written three books on writing including her most […]