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Joey Garcia
When a radio talk show host, podcaster, or TV producer requests your bio before a scheduled interview, do you have the right document to send? What about bios for other opportunities related to the business of being an author? Too often, bios signal that a writer isn’t ready for the next stage of their literary career and that can limit the chances of their book getting into the hands of readers. From this presentation, participants will learn the five specific bios they should prepare in advance of their book’s publication, how to write each one, and how to use each to advance their writing goals.
Joey Garcia is a book editor and author platform coach. She helps writers get known while they’re writing so there’s an audience waiting to read their book once it's published. Joey’s clients have had bylines in The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian magazine, and Ms. magazine and have appeared on CNN and The Tamron Hall Show. Joey is the author of When Your Heart Breaks, It’s Opening to Love and her poetry, short stories, and essays have received awards and been published in Calyx, Mslexia, Hippocampus, Creative Nonfiction magazine, Writer’s Digest, The Caribbean Writer, and Hypertext. In 2017, Joey established the first-ever literary fellowship in Belize, her birthplace. www.joeygarcia.com
Laurie Anne Doyle
A well-crafted plot can make up for a variety of shortcomings. Just look at any bestseller list. Why is plot so important? As Christopher Lehman-Haupt observes, “The beginning of plot is the prompting of desire.” Our characters must deeply want something, and that desire starts a journey filled with unexpected challenges and pleasures.
Laurie Ann Doyle, who writes both fiction and creative nonfiction, will discuss a surprisingly powerful yet largely unknown approach to plot: how what is narratively not present—a missing father, a lost object, even an unexpressed feeling—has been a major theme in literature and can serve as a creative spark for your own work. She will share examples from well-known books, read a short excerpt from her own writing, and provide craft techniques. She’ll also offer brief writing exercises to give participants first-hand experience on how a focus on what's missing can be transformative.
Praised by New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki for delivering "astute portrayals of people who desire connection, hope, and renewal," Laurie Ann Doyle’s book World Gone Missing offers a page-turning collection of haunting and emotional stories about the many ways people can vanish from life. Winner of the Alligator Juniper Fiction Award and nominee for Best of the Net and the Pushcart prize, Laurie’s stories and essays appear in McSweeney’s, Alta Journal, Under the Sun, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the San Francisco Writers Grotto and at UC Berkeley Extension, where she is an honored instructor.
A popular workshop facilitator and speaker, Laurie Ann Doyle has presented at The San Francisco Writing Conference, The Association of Writing Programs conference, UC Berkeley College Writing, and elsewhere.She encourages readers to connect via her website: laurieanndoyle.com
Robert Pimm, Attorney, legal guide for writers
Yearly member picnic / No Meeting
Author Brad Herzog, "Think Right and Write Wrong"
BoOktoberfest
We meet in the evening on the third Tuesday of the month at the Center for Spiritual Awakening located at
522 Central Ave., Pacific Grove, CA (next to the PG Library). Doors open at 5:30 PM, and the meeting starts at 6:15 PM.
522 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove, California 93950, United States
Monthly Meetings
Central Coast Writers
PO Box 997 - Pacific Grove, CA 93950
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