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4/8/10 Board
Meeting:
at 7:15 P.M.
at Mountain
Mike's Pizza. All FAW members are welcome to
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4/15/10 Open Mic:
7:00 P.M., Barnes and Noble Booksellers,
3900 Mowry Ave., Fremont, CA 94538 |
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4/24/10
FAW Meeting:
2-4 P.M., Mountain Mike's Pizza, 35760
Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA
Guest Speaker: Lisa Alpine,
Author, Speaker
Lisa Alpine will
be reading from her anthology, Exotic Life:
Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled
Hearts, and also speaking about the
self-publishing process
Lisa
is co-author of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp
Workbook and workshop series by Good to Go
Media, and a book development consultant.
She also teaches writing
workshops on a plethora of topics from travel
writing to book birthing.
She
is currently working on the
Self-Publishing
Boot Camp Guidebook to help authors on the
path of becoming a small press, and she’s also
publishing an anthology of her non-fiction
stories, and a book on her dance wisdom. Her
publishing house name is Dancing Words Press and
her website is
http://LisaAlpine.com
and
http://SelfPubBootCamp.com
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May
2010 |
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5/13/2010 Board
Meeting:
at 7:15 P.M.
at Mountain
Mike's Pizza. All FAW members are welcome to
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5/20/10 Open Mic:
7:00 P.M., Barnes and Noble Booksellers,
3900 Mowry Ave., Fremont, CA 94538 |
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5/22/10
FAW Meeting:
2-4 P.M., Mountain Mike's Pizza, 35760
Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA
Guest Speaker:
Verna
Dreisbach
will address the role of the
literary agent and the author. Learn how
best to choose an agent, how to approach and
query an agent, and what happens once a writer
is accepted for representation. Verna will
reveal some of the most common mistakes a writer
makes and share examples of successful queries
and book proposals
Verna Dreisbach is an
author, educator and literary agent. Her
work has been featured in books, literary
journals, magazines, and newspapers. Her Seal
Press Anthology,
Why We Ride:
Women Writers on the Horses in their Lives,
is scheduled for release in the spring of 2010,
with a foreword written by Jane Smiley.
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