California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch

Dedicated to Educating Writers of all Levels

Ann O. Chehak

 

Ann Chehak’s love of nature and penchant for wandering the trails and streams of California offer inviting and scenic backdrops for her stories. Ann launched her writing career drafting information technology manuals and project management plans and now writes adventurous mystery novels where the hero and heroine join forces to solve crime and find love in the end. She invites you to enjoy her mysteries, The Flying Horse Caper and The Seaside Painting Caper, written with a touch of inspiration and a hint of love.

Visit Ann’s blog at http://www.annchehak.com/ where you can discover more about her writing. You can meet Ann at the monthly California Writers Club workshop meetings in Sacramento and the First Friday Network meetings.

 

Margaret Duarte

 

Margaret Duarte, a current board member of CWC, Sacramento and former middle school teacher, lives on a family-owned-and-operated dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures are closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published two novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender and Between Darkness and Dawn. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review, The California Writers Club Literary Review, finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest, and First Place winner for fiction in the 2016 Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards Competition. She is a founding member of the Visionary Fiction Alliance, dedicated to encouraging the evolution and embracement of visionary fiction. The VFA was awarded one of the top fifty blogs and websites for fiction book readers and authors at the content reader, Feedspot. For links to Margaret and her work, visit her website at: margaretduarte.com.

Luncheon, Jan 20 – Love and Sex on the Page

Love and Sex on the Page

featuring

Joey Garcia

Award-Winning Writer, Columnist & Relationship Expert

Feel free to bring short examples, 3-4 sentences good and bad!!!

 Saturday, January 20 11 AM–1:00 PM (10:15 Early-Bird Session TBA)

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

 

Photo credit: Kendall Tobe

Joey Garcia tells it straight – her writing contains scenes that illuminate relationships. It’s up to the writer to learn how to do it effectively. Joey promises to plunge in – providing examples to the Ca Writers Club Sacramento.

As Sacramento’s best-known “relationship” columnist, Joey draws on 21-plus years of dispensing relationship advice to 300,000 weekly readers in in the Sacramento News & Review. Her book, When Your Heart Breaks, It’s Opening to Love: Healing and finding love after an affair, heartbreak or divorce, was selected as a 2014 CSUS Summer Read . A year later, the book – published by a company Garcia started — won a national Bronze Living Now award that recognizes books that inspire tolerance and forgiveness.

 Joey has been featured in the Huffington Post, Sacramento Magazine, Sacramento Bee, Good Day Sacramento, Capital Public Radio’s “Insight,” KQED radio, KFBK radio, KCRA-TV, and ABC10-TV.  She’s currently the Relationship Expert for Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto Fox 40 News and fills in as a host for The Pat Walsh Show on NewsRadio KFBK.

Her poems, essays, and short stories have been published in literary journals and received international awards. In 2014 her poem, “After 9/11,” was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. She has received poetry fellowships in Spoleto and Paris.

In 2004, Joey created Rise Up Belize! Advancement through Education, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of over 1,000 children and more than 500 teachers in her native Belize, Central America. She also launched a leadership program that has trained more than 100 Sacramento-area teen girls in skills that translate to workplace success. Joey has taught relationship education programs in schools, shelters, jails and the Learning Exchange.

Joey founded the Belize Writers’ Conference with an inaugural date of April 23 -28, 2018, for memoir, fiction, and nonfiction writers who are ready for manuscript critiques by two New York literary agents and a writing coach/author.

 

Luncheon 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Early Bird special 10:45 – Common Query Letter Mistakes, presented by Ted Witt

 

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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First Friday, Jan 5 – Fabricated Fiction

The Real World of Fabricated Fiction

with

Kathy Boyd Fellure

Women’s Fiction & Children’s Book Author & Host of Annual Literary Read

Friday, January 5, 2018
9-11 AM Coco’s, 7887 Madison Avenue, Citrus Heights

 

How can reality be threaded through the narrative lens of Settings, Character, Plot, and Dialogue?  Kathy Boyd Fellure will address this topic at the First Friday Network meeting of 2018. She will also cover how to turn inanimate objects into characters in our stories. Join us for an informative presentation which will include a short writing exercise.

Kathy Boyd Fellure is author of four children’s books. She also writes contemporary women’s fiction, including a completed novel trilogy, On the Water’s Edge, represented by Wendy Lawton of Books & Such Literary Management. The Language of the Lake, was released earlier this year. Her novel Across the Pond, is set in England. Kathy is founder of Amador Fiction Writers.  With experience in interviewing authors for media broadcast, she hosts an annual literary read and exhibits her photography. Kathy lives in the foothill gold country with her family and two stand-up comedian dogs. Recently she facilitated in the branch California Writers Week Fiction panel held at Barnes and Noble.

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.

Book Cover Poster Project

 Book Cover Poster Project

Clippings, too!

We are revamping our book-cover posters that publicize the work of our members. Our old posters will be replaced with the new publications of our members. We hope to have them ready to display at our January 20, 2018 meeting, if all goes well.

If you submitted files last year or earlier, it is time to submit again with your latest work. All old art work will be discarded in favor of whatever you send us this time around.

If you would like to be represented, please send us your books covers – up to two – to Ted Witt at tedwitt@epylon.com. In the subject heading, please write, “Book Covers for CWC Poster.” Attach a file with your cover.

Here are the preferred specifications: a jpg file containing the actual size of your cover with a minimum of 300 dpi (dots per inch). If you have trouble determining the size of your image, you may send us a PDF file of the actual cover.

If books are not your specialty, you may send us PDF clippings of magazine articles, columns, or other writing samples. Once again, please make it an actual-size image, or provide a jpg at 300 dpi.

Please provide your name and contact information in your e-mail in case we have problems with your file.