READERS & WRITERS CALENDAR DECEMBER 31-JANUARY 10

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December 28, 2015 (San Diego) — San Diego WriteWay has provided a calendar of activities across our region for Readers as well as for writers.

 

Readers

 

January 2 (Saturday, 2:00 pm) — The National Post noted that Adam Lewis Schroeder’s All Day Breakfast Iterary, yes. With extra bacon.

The review also notes, “Schroeder switches gears from goofball comedy to oddball road-trip odyssey, losing out on laughs but retaining all of the razor-sharp, fairly literary prose that might seem out of place if all you knew about All-Day Breakfast was that it’s a book about zombies.” Attendees should be prepared for the first author event of 2016 to include Adam performing a rap with a snare drum alongside, while the audience sings the chorus. Adam’s previous novel, In the Fabled East, was an IndiesNext selection in 2011.

When widowed father and substitute teacher Peter Giller leads an eleventh-grade class on a field trip to a plastics factory, he thinks the worst that could happen is that the parent volunteers won't show up (they don't), the kids will be rude (they are) or the free lunch will be terrible (it is).

A leaking pipe sprays Peter and the students with a mysterious pink goo and the worst that could happen spikes from inconvenient to catastrophic. At first, the goo's strange side effects are mild: short-temperedness, sawdust-scented B.O. and an unquenchable craving for bacon. Then things get spooky: Peter's fingers start falling off, his students forget how to read, no one has to peeeverand empathy for human suffering plummets, especially if anyone gets between them and their bacon.

Peter can't figure out what s happening.  Surely he's not a zombie? At no time in any movie does a zombie drive a car and count on his reattached fingers the ways in which he is not a zombie, and anyway, he craves bacon, not brains. But normal people don't put their bodies back together with staple guns and thumb tacks, or contemplate biting off ears. Peter's definitely not fit to be around his children, and his mother-in-law temporarily adopts them.

Peter's children are all he has left, and he'll do anything to be with them again. He races across the country in a stolen ambulance to face down pinstriped bureaucrats, affectionate farm-girls and monsters plucked from mythology in his search for the cure (if it exists) to his horrifying condition.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

 

January 5 (Tuesday, 7:30 pm) Warwick's is hosting the bestselling author Susan Meissner for the launch of her newest novel, Stars Over Sunset Boulevard. Susan Meissner is a former managing editor of a weekly newspaper and an award-winning columnist. She is the award-winning author of Secrets of a Charmed Life, A Fall of Marigolds, and many other novels.

In this new novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life, two women working in Hollywood during its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship.

Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind ends up in Christine McAllister’s vintage clothing boutique by mistake, her efforts to return it to its owner take her on a journey more enchanting than any classic movie…

Los Angeles, 1938. Violet Mayfield sets out to reinvent herself in Hollywood after her dream of becoming a wife and mother falls apart, and lands a job on the film-set of Gone With the Wind. There, she meets enigmatic Audrey Duvall, a once-rising film star who is now a fellow secretary. Audrey’s zest for life and their adventures together among Hollywood’s glitterati enthrall Violet…until each woman’s deepest desires collide. What Audrey and Violet are willing to risk, for themselves and for each other, to ensure their own happy endings will shape their friendship, and their lives, far into the future.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

 

January 6 (Wednesday, 7:30 pm)Warwick's is hosting the San Diego doctor and renowned life-coach Roddy Carter on Wednesday, January 6th at 7:30 pm for the launch of his first book, BodyWHealth. Dr. Roddy Carter is an expert in peak performance, and he brings his knowledge and insight from a distinguished career as a physician and scientist to help others achieve health, happiness, and prosperity. Roddy specializes in exercise science and sports medicine. He has guided Olympic athletes to realize their physical, mental, and emotional potential, and has led internationally recognized research programs in cardiovascular health.

Only a tiny proportion of the world's population is healthy, happy, and prosperous. Those few have found the secrets to the natural order and are handsomely rewarded. They are WHealthy. BodyWHealth: Journey to Abundance explains the science of WHealth and outlines the road to attain it. Drawing on the author's experience preparing athletes for peak performance at the Olympic Games, his distinguished career in clinical medicine and research, and the intimate understanding he gained from a personal life reboot, BodyWHealth provides inspiration, insight, and guidance to all WHealth Seekers. This book will give you seven powerful keys to unlock the best possible you. Based on evolutionary principles and scientific evidence, BodyWHealth has changed lives; it is a proven pathway to health, happiness, and prosperity.

This book will give you seven powerful keys to unlock the best possible you. Based on evolutionary principles and scientific evidence, BodyWHealth has changed lives; it is a proven pathway to health, happiness, and prosperity.

In his book BodyWHealth: Journey to Abundance, Dr. Carter makes his knowledge accessible to all WHealth Seekers. A natural educator, Roddy explains complex biology in simple metaphors, helping his readers to follow a lifestyle that honors their natural design. He combines incisive intellect with his healing touch and a warm, conversational tone to bring inspiration, insight, and guidance to everyone who reads his work. 

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

 

January 7 (Thursday, 7:00 pm) — Warwick's is hosting author of The Wig in the Window, Kristen Kittscher to present her young adult novel Tiara on the Terrace. Kristen Kittscher is a writing tutor in Pasadena, California, where she lives with her husband. The 2014 James Thurber House Children's Writer-in-Residence and a graduate of Brown University, she taught middle-school English for many years.

In this funny, clever novel, perfect for fans of Pseudonymous Bosch and Gordon Korman and a companion to The Wig in the Window, tween sleuths Sophie Young and Grace Yang go undercover at Luna Vista's Winter Sun Festival to catch a murderer before he or she strikes again.

Sophie Young and Grace Yang have been taking it easy ever since they solved the biggest crime Luna Vista had ever seen. But things might get interesting again now that everyone is gearing up for the 125th annual Winter Sun Festival a town tradition that involves floats, a parade, and a Royal Court made up of local high school girls.

When Festival president Jim Steptoe turns up dead on the first day of parade preparations, the police blame a malfunctioning giant s'more feature on the campfire-themed float. But the two sleuths are convinced the mysterious death wasn't an accident.

Young and Yang must trade their high tops for high heels and infiltrate the Royal Court to solve the case. But if they fail, they might just be the next victims. 

For more information regarding the event, please contact Warwick's Books | 7812 Girard Avenue | La Jolla, Ca | 92037 | Ph. (858) 454-0347 | http://www.warwicks.com |

 

January 8 (Friday, 6:00 pm)D. J. MacHale and Patrick Carman sign in San Diego

Patrick Carman is the best-selling and award-winning author of many books for young adults and children. He worked in advertising, game design, and technology before creating and writing in worlds of wonder like The Lands of Elyon, the 39 Clues, and now Voyagers, as kids seek the solution to the Earth’s disappearing power sources. The Voyagers experience includes a vast world of digital assets for kids to plug into. On-line kids can create their own robot commander, discover hidden secrets in the printed books that unlock tons of cool stuff, join the crew, and learn a ton of science, technology, engineering, and math. It’s a STEM teacher’s dream come true for young readers! Fellow best-seller D.J. MacHale, who wrote Voyagers: Project Alpha, will join Patrick to discuss the exciting SF series for middle grade readers.

Voyagers: Omega Rising by Patrick Carman. Earth is in danger! The only things that can save our planet are six essential elements scattered throughout the galaxy. And it is up to the Voyagers a team of four kids and an alien to gather them all and return to Earth. It isn t just the Voyagers out in space they've got company in the form of Team Omega. Omegas have their own reasons for wanting the elements and they ll do anything to win. The third planet, Aqua-Gen, has unbelievable new challenges in store. Sea monsters, pirates . . . Both teams better know how to swim.

Quake by Patrick Carman. Teens Faith and Dylan finally go head-to-head with the mastermind behind their "pulses. 

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

 

January 9 (Saturday, 2:00 pm) — The multi-talented Amber Benson will be donning her prose author hat when she visits MG for her signing for The Last Dream Keeper, continuing the story of Lyse MacAllister, and her coven sisters, introduced in The Witches of Echo Park, as they face threats from external and internal sources. Amber will bring readers up to date on her various projects, including movies like “Shevenge,” short stories for a variety of anthologies, and whatever the next arrow in her Renaissance Woman quiver may be. In the second Witches of Echo Park novel, one coven must keep the world in balance and stand against a rising darkness.

Lyse MacAllister did not step into an easy role when she took over as master of the Echo Park coven of witches after her great-aunt Eleanora s death. As she begins to forge the bonds that will help her lead her sisters, she struggles to come to terms with her growing powers. And she soon faces a deadly new threat. A group of fanatics intent on bringing about the end of times has invaded the witches Council but the Council is turning a blind eye to the danger growing in its midst.

Only one witch is prophesied to be able to stop the encroaching darkness. And if Lyse and her blood sisters are to have any chance at protecting all we know from being lost forever, they must keep her safe no matter what the cost. 

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

 

January 10 (Sunday, 2:00 pm) — Local author Selena Jones’ passions include “Writing novels and short stories (obviously), baking healthy treats that don’t taste like cardboard or dirt, spending time with her family, building with Legos (especially the Star Wars sets), playing the ukulele and practicing yoga.” Selena’s debut supervillain novel, Every Day is Like Doomsday, introduced Elliot Vane and the attendees of the Villains Academy – the survivors of the first book return, when Doomsday Strikes Again. Selena may also offer attendees a teaser for her mild horror novel, A Nice Place, publishing later in 2016.

Since leaving the Villain Academy Elliot Vane has led a blessed life with endless money, beautiful women and new friends. He has developed a talent for all things tech and has financial control over his own, small-time Villainous group. His ex-girlfriend, Innya, has not been so lucky, and has spent the past three years as a prisoner of the U.S. Government. But when a ghost out of Elliot’s past tries to squeeze Innya for information, she realizes that Elliot is in way over his head… Again. She flees to Italy to fight at Elliot’s side, bringing trouble on her heels. Soon it’s an all-out war between multiple governments and Villainous organizations, and Elliot and Innya are caught in the middle. Will they succeed in taking down the established Villain hierarchy? Or will a threat from within cause their downfall? 

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

 

BOOKS BY OLIN THOMPSON

Olin Thompson has written over 20 exciting adventure books in hardback and eBooks including police procedural, crime, mystery, western and military. They can be ordered through Amazon or at:

http://olin-thompson.com/books.html

 

Writers

Workshops, Classes, Seminars, Book Festivals,

Contests, Workshops, Classes, Seminars, Book Festivals,

Contests and Authors Exhibits

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December 31 (Thursday, 9 pm to 1 am) — New Year's Eve Writing Marathon with Judy Reeves. Write your way into the New Year in classic marathon-style. There'll be prompts and props and lively writing exercises to keep our pens going through the midnight hour and right into 2016. 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/1231-new-years-eve-writing-marathon-with-judy-reeves/

 

January 3 (Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm) — Vision Boards with Judy Reeves. Begin the New Year with an all-day goal-shaping, intention-setting, vision-seeking, commitment-making, dream-building New Year's workshop for writing and other creative geniuses. Using prompts and images – both written and visual – we'll free-write and vision-board what we want most in the coming year.

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0103-vision-boards-with-judy-reeves/

 

January 3 (Sunday, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm) — The Writers Coffeehouse is open to everyone. The Coffeehouse is a bunch of writers sitting around talking about writing…with coffee. No agenda, just chat about the latest trends in the industry, about the craft of writing, about markets, about pitching and selling, about conquering frustration and defeating writers block, and about all of the good things that come from the community of writers. No previous publishing experience necessary…the Writers Coffeehouse attracts everyone from absolute beginner to award-winners and bestsellers. We're all writers. The Coffeehouse will be a regular event that meets on the first Sunday of every month from noon to 3:00 pm. And join the free Message Board online: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/WritersCoffeehouseOnline/info.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

 

January 5 (Tuesday, 6 pm to 8 pm) — Brainstorming with Kim Keeline. This workshop will be hands-on writing time using different tools, which will work for writers of fiction and nonfiction alike. 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0105-brainstorming-with-kim-keeline/

 

January 6 (Wednesday, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm) — Transitions and Associations with Lisa Shapiro. This powerful writing workshop will help you improve your craft and gain insight into your characters, settings and conflicts. Practice and improve your transitions and associations! 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0106-transitions-associations-with-lisa-shapiro/

 

January 7 (Thursday, 6:30 pm) — AuthorPreneurs™ is pleased to host our monthly dinner meeting for writers and published authors, featuring former KPBS Fundraising Producer, Andy Trimlett, at Filippi’s Pizza Grotto, 5353 Kearny Villa Rd., San Diego, CA, 92123. The event is ticketed ($35) and is open to the public.

About the Event: Join Andy Trimlett, successful crowdfunding consultant, for a talk on How to Prepare a Crowdfunding Campaign for Your Book. He will discuss how to begin preparing your campaign, proven fundraising tactics, and how to get the word out once you have devised a plan. Event will include a dinner of pizza, salad, bread, wine, tax and gratuity, as well as, Q&A and the opportunity to speak in depth with Andy.

About the Author: Andy spent eight years as a fundraising producer at KPBS Public Broadcasting in San Diego, where he served as a writer, producer, and editor for campaigns that raised millions of dollars for the station every year. He is now a freelance fundraising consultant, working for PBS and a number of local stations across the country. The campaign for his upcoming documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raised over $59,000.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Susan McBeth at (619) 300-2532 or at susan@adventuresbythebook.com.

 

January 7 (Thursday, 10 am to 12 pm) — The Artists' Way with Kristen Fogle and Lydia Real. Celebrate the new year by discovering and recovering your creative self. This powerful twelve-week course is for novices and working artists of all types. In a supportive and safe setting, you'll encounter a myriad of experiences that will tap your imagination and increase productivity. 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/the-artists-way-with-kristen-fogle-and-lydia-real/

 

January 9 (Saturday, 2 pm to 4 pm) — Get Your Book DONE! Overcoming Writers' Block and Procrastination with Michael Anderson. In two short hours, you'll learn the psychological reasons why you procrastinate and what you can do about it. By the end of the class, you will have developed your own personal writing rhythm and learn ow to keep yourself accountable. 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0109-get-your-book-done-overcoming-writers-block-and-procrastination-with-michael-anderson/

 

January 9 (Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm) — Goal Setting for Creatives with Jill G. Hall. In this quick workshop you'll define a goal then develop steps to reach it. Through group sharing, possible obstacles with solutions will be discussed to add to your plan for success. 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0109-goal-setting-for-creatives-with-jill-g-hall/

 

January 9 (Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm) — The Art of Critiquing - Giving and Receiving Feedback with Lisa Kessler. In this class, wee'll sharpen your critiquing skills, as well as discuss how to accept feedback and discern which input to take to heart and which to set aside. 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0109-the-art-of-critiquing-giving-and-receiving-feedback-with-lisa-kessler/

 

January 9 (Saturday, 2 pm to 5 pm) — Writing Memorable Prose with Judy Reeves. In this workshop, you'll learn how to ground your writing in clear, specific language, when and how to make nouns and verbs the primary tools in your writer's toolbox, and how to create details that stay in the reader's memory long after the story is finished. 

The Ink Spot, NTC Liberty Station, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 202, San Diego. http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0109-writing-memorable-prose-with-judy-reeves/

 

 

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