2019 A Bouquet of Rue Event Calendar

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April 6 11:00 Book Carnival 348 S. Tustin Ave., Orange CA 714-538-3210

April 6  3:00 Gatsby Books 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach CA 562-208-6862

April 7 11:00 Anaheim Public Library Foundation 24th Annual Mystery Authors Luncheon Sheraton Park Hotel at The Anaheim Resort for tickets: mysteryauthorsluncheon.eventbrite.com

April 26 11:30 Lake Wildwood Women’s Club Annual Spring Luncheon Lake Wildwood, Penn Valley CA for information contact dkhendricks71@gmail.com

Disturbing the Dark Signings

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The Color of Light, April 2014 The Color of Light, April 2014

Disturbing the Dark Signings
April 1 7:00 Book Launch Party  Lake Wildwood                Community Center, Penn Valley CA
For directions and gate access
email pmr40west@aol.com by 3/30/16 

April 2  2:00PM Oakland Main Library
           125 14th Street
Oakland, CA  94612
            (510) 238-3134

April 7 7:00 PM  A Great Good Place for Books                Montclair District, Oakland
6120 La Salle, Oakland 94611
510-339-8210

April 9 1:00 PM Orinda Books
            276 Village Square, Orinda 94563
            925-254-7606

April 20 7:00PM Menlo Park Library
             800 Alma St., Menlo Park 94025
650-330-2500

April 29 7:30PM  Mysterious Galaxy
             7051 Claremont Mesa, San Diego CA                       858-268-4747

April 30 2:00 Book Carnival
             348 S. Tustin Ave., Orange CA 92866
             714-538-3210

May 1   3:00PM Gatsby Books
             5535 E. Spring Street, Long Beach 90808
             562-208-6862

May 2   7:00-9:00PM Anaheim Central Library
             500 W. Broadway, Anaheim CA 92805
714-765-1880                 

June 4 3:00-4:30 Borderlands Books
            866 Valencia St., San Francisco CA 94110
415 824-8203

 

Making Story now available on Kindle

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Now available on Kindle

It’s often said that everyone has a book inside him or her — but how do you plot it? In Making Story, edited by the Edgar- and Macavity-nominated author Timothy Hallinan, twenty-one novelists–who have written more than 100 books among them and sold hundreds of thousands of copies–talk about how they go about turning an idea into a plot, and a plot into a book. Making Storyoffers practical, experience-based advice from people who have repeatedly sat down to write a good book and succeeded in doing just that. The writers who will help you to create your story are Michael Stanley, Kelli Stanley, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Jeffrey Siger, Zoe Sharp, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Mike Orenduff, Debbi Mack, Wendy Hornsby, Gar Anthony Haywood, Timothy Hallinan, Leighton Gage, Jeremy Duns, Bill Crider, Meredith Cole, Jeffrey Cohen, Rebecca Cantrell, Rachel Brady, Lisa Brackmann, Cara Black, and Brett Battles. This is an indispensable book for aspiring authors and the first in a series, each focusing on a different writing challenge.

 

It’s a Book!

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Adapted from an earlier post on Getitwrite, the Perseverance Press author blog
Wendy Hornsby

You write a book and send it off.  Sometime later the typescript comes back from the editor decorated with blue pencil marks, with a page of two of notes with issues and questions to please address.  You make some changes, fix some errors, and send it back.  Again, sometime later, page proofs show up for a last proofread and an last chance to fix gaffes.  When you slip the proofs into a mailer and send them off this time, your work on the manuscript is finished.  By that time you are or should be well into the next book, and the completed book moves to the back of your mind.  Continue reading →