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.

“There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart,” wrote Samuel Johnson, “a desire of distinction, which inclines every man to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given himself something peculiar to himself.”

What better distinction on display than in a book? Maryellen Burns will guide a conversation on how to write, edit, design, publish, and market a book in 12 months, and why it is important to every writer, regardless of genre. She is the author or editor of multiple books through traditional publishers and her own Indie press including Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes; Extracts – Mostly True Stories; and Whip Up a Cookbook. She has been a ghost writer, set up author tours and west coast promotions for Ten Speed Press, Simon and Schuster, Chronicle and Prima Publishing. She also teaches and produces books with the I Street Press and more recently facilitated a series for Indie Writers and Publishers for the Renaissance Society at CSUS and Morning Coffee Press in Midtown.

“There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart,” wrote Samuel Johnson, “a desire of distinction, which inclines every man to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given himself something peculiar to himself.”

What better distinction on display than in a book? Maryellen Burns will guide a conversation on how to write, edit, design, publish, and market a book in 12 months, and why it is important to every writer, regardless of genre. She is the author or editor of multiple books through traditional publishers and her own Indie press including Lost Restaurants of Sacramento and Their Recipes, Extracts – Mostly True Stories, and Whip Up a Cookbook. She has been a ghost writer, set up author tours and west coast promotions fr Ten Speed Press, Simon and Shuster, Chronicle and Prima Publishing. She also teaches and produces books with the I Street Press and more recently facilitated a series for Indie Writers and Publishers for the Renaissance Society at CSUS and Morning Coffee Press in Midtown.

For 15 years, Al Zagofsky served as a correspondent for the Times News, a regional newspaper in Pennsylvania, where he contributed over 2,000 stories. He also contributed to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the West Sacramento News-Ledger, Pennsylvania Magazine and Honda Tuning Magazine. He has published The Lehigh River and Canal at Jim Thorpe, PA, The Lehigh Gorge Trail Guide, and Return From Oblivion. For the past 12 years, he has been the publisher of an online e-magazine, JT Today/Carbon County Magazine/California Update. He will be talking about his experiences in journalism and publications, how to write stories for publication, and how to get published.