Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Bert Millspaugh
Newsletter
Volume 12, Number 9 -- September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page-8
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(click on the page number to navigate to that article) SCWA MIssion! Presidents Message ! September 21st Speaker ! SCWA Speaker Schedule ! August Meeting Highlights! October Speaker Preview! Monthly Meeting Information and Map! Board of Directors ! Sponsors and Partners! Events and Announcements! Active Member Directory ! Member Marketplace! Member Projects! Have You Picked Up Your Copy Of...! September Will Write for Food Contest! August Will Write for Food Contest Winner! Bring Out the Gutsy in You! Do You Have a My Gutsy Story?! Future Speakers - February! Terms of Use and Content Information Disclaimer! 1 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 8 9 10 10 11 12 13 15
SCWA MIssion
The mission of the SCWA is to provide a forum for promoting the welfare, fellowship, spirit, education, information, and encouragement among published and unpublished writers in the Southern California area. Return to ToC www.ocwriter.com
September 2013
Page 1
Presidents Message
Larry Porricelli, SCWA President
Our membership outreach continues to expand. In addition to our paid memberships, which have been steady the last three years, weve added 155 new members via Meetup and have 109 members in Facebook. Your Board is discussing the appropriate way to handle our growing web presence, along with some new services we might try out in 2014. Stay tuned for the exciting details. We are considering restructuring the SCWA Board, and preparing to name some new board members. If you are interested in helping out in any volunteer role, even in ways that take little time or effort, please contact me. Our group is thriving in so many ways. Lets keep up the momentum and ll those last volunteer slots. Thanks. Check out the new Future Speakers prole. Its a taste of the great talks in our near future. Return to ToC
SPEAKER" " " Mariana Williams" " Ina Hillebrandt" " SCWA Author Panel"" Nancy Dodd" " " Dr. Ken Atchity " " D.P. Lyle, MD" "
SUBJECT or SPECIALTY Wince-Worthy Tales Got a Story to Tell? Panel discussion by SCWA Authors From Story Map to Finished Draft in 7 Stages Opportunities in a Dynamic Environment Forensics
www.ocwriter.com
Page 2
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 3
Meeting Fees (cash, check or credit/debit) Reservation Type RSVP by Early Bird Date RSVP after Early Bird Date or Walk-In SCWA Member $25 $30 Student $15 $15 Others $30 $35
Return to ToC
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 4
www.ocwriter.com
Return to ToC
Return to ToC
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 5
Recent Publications
Evelyn Marshall has published her second book: The Way They See. Marianna Williams has published her third book: The Valentine State. After achieving prominence and success for a book shes stolen and taken credit for, feisty 38-year old Veronica nds herself faced with the pressures of expectation and a looming deadline. A tongue-in-cheek metactive bookabout-a-book-within-a-book, The Valentine State, is a comedic tale of dysfunction and misadventure. Williams pens a year in the life of a writer as she lives in a beat-up house in Seal Beach, California, with a couple of mist roommates. Billy Anderson is an ex-classmate turned handyman and small time drug dealer, and Liz Alden, is a gorgeous, young aspiring model. Secrets abound as the housemates get mixed up in blackmail and Veronica is hiding a love triangle. Everything is on the line as Veronicas deadline steadily approaches, threatening to reveal her for the plagiarist she is and leave the three charming, yet roguish characters high and dry. Susan Kay Gilmore has published her rst non-ction short story, Possessed by Baseball. As the daughter of a semi-professional baseball player, she left home at the age of eighteen and took a forty-one year hiatus from baseball. What happened forty-one years later to turn her into a raving baseball fanatic, and what valuable life-changing lessons did she learn? Is there life after baseball? Possessed by Baseball is now available digitally on Sony, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Copia, eSentral, and Scribd applications.
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 6
" Espionage/SciFi"
MDBradb@aol.com" victory@crayne.com"
" crayne.com"
714-960-9179 949-206-0922
Thrillers"
SCWA: editor@ocwriter.com"
stevengjackson.com"
rsking3@verizon.net"
authorrhking.com"
760-987-7870
CharlaSpence.com" shirlthomas.com"
"
Hist Fic / Thrillers " donwestenhaver@roadrunner.com" " SCWA: meeting@ocwriter.com" " mariana@marianawilliams.net"
714-994-1943 714-204-6500
Return to ToC
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 7
Member Marketplace
SCWA Members sell stuff. Check with the author for details on how to purchase your copy.
Author" Bennett, Veronica" Crayne, Victory " King, Roy " Lloyd, Rita Lee" Marsh, Sonia" Marshall, Evelyn" Marshall, Evelyn" Porter, Kathy" Porter, Kathy" Quinn, Darlene" Quinn, Darlene" Quinn, Darlene" Quinn, Darlene" Spence, Charla" Spence, Charla" Westenhaver, Don" Westenhaver, Don" Westenhaver, Don" Westenhaver, Don" Williams, Marianna" Williams, Marianna" Title" " Happy New Year, Darling" " Reluctant Spy" " Symfonie Fantastique" " How to Survive in the 21st Century as a SSOFF! Freeways to Flip-Flops" " The Provider" " The Way They See" " Gray/Guardians" " Earths Ultimate Conict" " Webs of Power" " Twisted Webs " " Webs of Fate" " Unpredictable Webs" " Personal Healthcare Record (Adult)" " Personal Healthcare Record (Child)" " The Whiplash Hypothesis " " The Red Turtle Project" " Neros Concert" " Alexanders Lighthouse" " Stars or Stripes Fourth of July" " The Valentine State" " Year" 2003" 2013" 2011" 2011" 2012" 2012" 2013 2006" " 2010" 2008" 2010" 2011" 2013" 2011" 2011" 2008" 2008" 2008" 2012" 2011" 2013"
"
Return to ToC
Member Projects
SCWA Members write stuff. Heres what some of us are up to. Victory Crayne writes novels in two genres: espionage thriller and science ction. Usually in both at the same novel. She recently published Reluctant Spy. She is writing her next novel, tentatively titled Nuclear Blackmail. Steven G. Jackson has written ve thriller novels, three in the last four years, which are in various stages of development: The Megalomania Gambit (marketing to literary agents), The Zeus Payload (marketing to literary agents), and The Lamia Transmutation (in rewriting stage). Darlene Quinn recenty released Unpredictable Webs, and is working on a fth book in the series. Don Westenhaver specializes in historical ction novels which commingle actual historical gures and events with ctional characters.He just completed his fourth novel, Alexanders Lighthouse, which takes place in Alexandria Egypt during the rst century AD, and an agent is reading it. Mariana Williams is Producer of Long Beach Searches for the Greatest Storyteller. In its second season, this event is held at the Long Beach Playhouse. Facebook Fan Page: LB Searches, www.marianawilliams.net/wince-worthy tales. Return to ToC
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 8
Return to ToC
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 9
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 10
Where: Regency South Coast Village movie theater, 1561 W Sunower Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92704 Who: - Moderator: Marla Miller, Author and founder of The Marketing Muse workshops - Sonia Marsh: Award-winning author and founder of the My Gutsy Story series. - Linda Joy Myers: President of the National Association of Memoir Writers and co-president of the Womens National Book Association, SF. - Jason Matthews: Hosts a weekly Indie Authors Google+ Hangout, and is an epublishing expert. Theme: To inspire everyone to be gutsy and not postpone their dreams. We shall share our own My Gutsy Story and answer questions related to why we decided to step out of our comfort zone, how we changed, would we do it again, does being gutsy entail danger, and so much more. We encourage audience participation. Charitable giving: A percentage of the proceeds from book sales will be donated to WomanSage, which provides opportunities, experience and education to enhance and empower all women. Sponsors: We shall announce our sponsors and rafe prizes as we get closer to the event date. RSVP: Go to http://soniamarsh.com and add your name to the list. Questions: Send e-mail to: gutsyanthology@gmail.com Return to ToC
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 11
! I'm starting my Pubslush Campaign and hope you check it out and like the rewards I'm offering. " Here is the link, (http://gutsyliving.pubslush.com)
Return to ToC
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 12
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 13
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 14
September 2013
www.ocwriter.com
Page 15