California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch

Dedicated to Educating Writers of all Levels

First Friday, Mar 2 – Creating Story from Real Events

FROM FACT TO FICTION:

CREATING STORY FROM REAL EVENTS

with

Anne da Vigo

Friday, March 2, 2018

9-11 AM Coco’s, 7887 Madison Avenue, Citrus Heights

 

Have you ever read a gripping news story or had a fascinating experience and thought, “This would make a great novel?” Anne Da Vigo, author of the new thriller, Thread of Gold, will show you how to craft a fictional work using actual people, events, and settings. This presentation, offered recently by Anne and other panelists at Florida’s Other Words conference, will include examples from her novel, inspired by a decades-old clipping from the New York Times. Bring paper and pen for a short writing exercise.

Anne Da Vigo is a former police reporter and newspaper feature writer. She is also a long-time short story writer and critique group participant. Her work has appeared in literary journals and won prizes for another upcoming thriller. Her first novel, Thread of Gold, was acclaimed as follows by Kirkus Reviews, “Stop the presses! An appealing crime fiction heroine is born.”

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.

Susan Osborn

Susan M. Osborn, Ph.D., M.S.W., is a writer, storyteller, and president of LifeThread Publications. She has served as the editor of the Lockheed Opserver, and as a staff writer for Senior Spectrum, High Technology Careers Magazine, and the Washington Women’s New Journal. Her articles have appeared in Judo Magazine, Countryside Magazine, The Employment Times (Maine), The New Leaders (San Francisco), The Fielding Magazine (Santa Barbara), The San Jose Business Journal, and Performance and Instruction Quarterly. She is the author of Awful Bosses Coloring Book; The System Made Me Do It! A Life Changing Approach to Office Politics (which reveals the root stories of five types of organizations); and Assertive Training for Women. Her chapter demonstrating “How Stories Build Teams and Teamwork,” appears in Wake Me When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Storytelling to Drive Results. She has taught writing courses in numerous business organizations and universities.

Website: www.susan.osborn.bz

www.amazon.com/Susan-M.-Osborn/e/B001HP0L56/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1517419469&sr=8-1

 

 

 

 

 

Luncheon, Feb 17 – Marketing for Low-Key Authors

Relationship-Based Marketing

featuring

Cristina Deptula

Literary Publicist at Authors, Large and Small

 Saturday, February 17

11 AM–1:00 PM

(10:45 Early-Bird Session TBA)

Cattlemens, 12409 Folsom Blvd, $15 members/$20 guests (includes lunch)

 

Do you cringe at the thought of being perceived as a self-promoter? Would you rather be perceived as “humble” than unabashed? Then Bay Area’s Cristina Deptula will deliver an important message to you.

Christina believes in relationship-based marketing, getting to know particular, influential people, and sharing information and resources with them in a way that’s mutually beneficial over a long period of time. Book promotion doesn’t have to mean “making a big deal out of yourself, but sharing what you have learned with others in order to help.”  She advises authors to view their books in terms of what they offer: information, insights, beauty, perspective or just plain fun and entertainment.  Christina knows how to take the focus off ourselves and put it into our work and message. This shift in approach makes it easier to promote – because we are talking about something beyond ourselves.

Cristina is a literary publicist with Authors, Large and Small (authorslargeandsmall.com), providing affordable outreach and marketing for writers. She helps to find audiences wherever they gather and to reach them in the manner in which they communicate. She’s the founder of Synchronized Chaos Magazine (synchchaos.com), publishing art and writing from around the world and developing a monthly theme based on the submissions received. Cristina has also reported on science and technology topics for the California Aggie.

You will come away from Cristina’s presentation knowing:

-the definition of relationship-based marketing

-why it’s more successful in the long-run

-the confidence that comes with marketing “humbly,” avoiding the reputation of unabashed self-promoter

– Ways to share with, not show off to, an audience.

-Build authentic relationships through outreach

 

Luncheon 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Early Bird special 10:45 – TBA

 

Luncheon Information

  • Monthly Luncheons are open to the public
  • Cost is $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers
  • The meeting fee includes speaker,  lunch and beverage
  • Cattlemens Restaurant, 12409 Folsom Blvd., Rancho Cordova, CA

The restaurant is located just east of Hazel Ave. at the northeast end of the Nimbus Winery complex along Highway 50. Cattlemens offers CWC a spacious meeting room with free WiFi, quality AV equipment, free off street parking and excellent food.


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Anara Guard

Anara Guard is a fiction writer and poet living in Sacramento. She has attended Bread Loaf Writers Workshop and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in fiction.  Her collection of short stories, Remedies for Hunger (New Wind Publishing) received four stars from the Chicago Book Review. She has been published in Convergence, Under the Gum Tree, The Ear, Gold Man Review and Late Peaches: An Anthology of Sacramento Poets.  Follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AnaraGuardAuthor or at www.anaraguard.com

 

 

 

 

 

Julie Bauer

Julie Bauer specializes in technical writing. She is an analyst for the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), State of California, providing writing and editing services. For five years she produced the department’s monthly employee newsletter. For the past four years she has been writing curriculum and conducting writing classes at DTSC headquarters in downtown Sacramento, and at its offices around California.

Prior to working for the state, Julie worked at home ghost-writing books and articles on nutrition and alternative medicine for Maureen Kennedy Salaman. During the 14 years she worked for Ms. Salaman, Julie wrote more than 50 articles, and several books. Salaman passed in 2006.

Julie has been a member of the Sacramento CWC since 1988, serving as the Club’s newsletter editor from 1995 to 2011. She is currently branch historian.