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January 23, 2023 Travel Writing Event

Sacramento/Central Valley Friends and Fellow Writers (Zoom available): Come learn about travel writing and muse boards in the New Year. #authorlife #sacramentowriters #travel #travelblogger Zoom is also an option. #speaker #speaking #writingcommunity

https://www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/2022/monthly-meeting-january-2023-travel-writing/

Filed Under: Africa, Events, muse board, Writing, Writing tips Tagged With: California Writers Club, Jill Hedgecock events, muse board, travel writing

January Diablo Gazette: Chinchillas, Christmas Bird Count and Covid Early Alert Dog Stories

I wrote a lot of articles for January: My Covid dog story on Early Alert Canines is on page 7. Book review of This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel on page 12, Adopt a chinchilla as a pet on page 16, page 11 for the results of the 2022 Contra Costa Christmas Bird Count.

Filed Under: Diablo Gazette, Dogs, Publishing Tagged With: 2022 Audubon Christmas Bird Count, book review, chinchillas, covid dogs, early alert dogs, for the love of pets, This is How it Always Is

2/11/23 Mount Diablo California Writers Club – Writer’s Table Featured Speaker

I will be speaking on Book Hooks: Eight Seconds or Bust at the Mount Diablo CWC from 11:15 till noon, at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523, followed by a buffet lunch and Kevin Fisher Paulson who will speak on the topic of Honoring the Creative Self

Meeting Cost (includes buffet lunch): $25 Members and $30 Non-Members for early bird registration
Pay an additional $5 for registration at the door
Registration required:
https://cwcmtdiablo.org/cwc-mt-diablo-presents-kevin-fisher-paulsen/

Filed Under: Events, Publishing, Writing, Writing tips Tagged With: book hooks, CWC, Mount Diablo California Writer's Club, Mount Diablo CWC, speaking, upcoming speaking events, Writer's Table, writing hooks

11/26/22 Event -Transformed by Travel at Flashlight Books

Please join Heidi Eliason, Lucinda Jackson and myself from 2:00 to 3:30 pm at Flashlight Books in Walnut Creek.

Filed Under: Africa, Bay Area, Events, Reading, Uncategorized Tagged With: bookstore, Confessions of a Middle Aged Runaway, Flashlight Books, Heidi Elliason, Lucinda Jackson, Project Escape, reading, speaking, transformed by travel, travel, writing

November 12, 2022 Event Mount Diablo California Writer’s Club

This Saturday!

I’m so excited to be speaking at the Mount Diablo branch of the California Writers Club on 11/12 at Zio Freados Italian Restaurant 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, CA. Preregistration required.
https://cwcmtdiablo.org/meetings-and-workshops/
$25 members/$30 nonmembers.
Includes a Buffet Lunch at Zio Freados! Members can sell their books!
#bookevent#bayarea#authorsofinstagram#bookmarketing#booktok#dontmissout#authorssupportingauthors#authorlife#authorshelpingauthors#bookpromotion#bookpromo#facebookauthor#Bookstagram#booknowMichael BarringtonSuzy Orpin Kelly#bayareaauthor 

Filed Under: Bay Area, Events, Publishing, Writing, Writing tips Tagged With: Jill Hedgecock events, Mount Diablo California Writer's Club, writing advice

November Diablo Gazette – Do Turkeys Make Good Pets? Book Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow


My Diablo Gazette dog rescue column has expanded to an all pets column. This month the topic is “Do Turkeys Make Good Pets?” You may be surprised at the answer. See page 15.

Also check out my review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on page 14.
#amreading #bookreview #turkey #turkeyday #fortheloveofpets #animals #birds #thanksgiving

https://www.diablogazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Diablo_Gazette_NOV22-D1.pdf

Filed Under: Bay Area, Book Review, Book Signing, Diablo Gazette Tagged With: Thanksgiving, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Turkey

Speaking Event: November 12, 2022 Mount Diablo California Writers Club

Topic coming soon.

Meeting 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant
611 Gregory Lane
Pleasant Hill, CA

$25 to $30 (nonmembers), includes lunch.

Register at https://cwcmtdiablo.org/

Filed Under: Uncategorized

October Diablo Gazette

Check out the look of my new pet column: For the Love of Pets on page 12 with sweet bonded senior pups in need of a home, veterinarian shortages, National Fetch Day info and stats on animal shelters. My review of West With Giraffes is on page 11 and a fun excursion option to the Bay Model is on page 18. Also Colleen Gonzalez’s movie reviews on p. 11 and gardening tips by David George on p. 13. #diablogazette Colleen Gonzalez #baymodel #dogrescue #sausalito #SausalitoChamber #NationalFetchDay


https://heyzine.com/flip-book/9826885c51.html#page/11

www.diablogazette.com

Filed Under: Bay Area, Book Review, Diablo Gazette, dog rescue, Dogs, Reading Tagged With: #lynda_rutledge #westwithgiraffe #fortheloveofpets #pet column #veterinarian shortage #animal shelter #the bay model

12/1/22 Rhino Presentation

I’m excited to announce I will be speaking at the Mount Diablo Audubon Society’s December 1st meeting about the status of the last 2 female northern white rhinos, recent scientific advances in rhino reproduction, and implications for the survival species.

Filed Under: Africa, Bay Area, Events, extinction, wlidlife Tagged With: Mount Diablo Audubon, northern white rhino status, rhinos

Great Success: September 24, 2022 Event at Reasonable Bookstore with Kevin Fisher-Paulson

Writing From Life: Memoir vs. Fiction.

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Kevin Fisher-Paulson and I will be speaking and doing a book signing at:

Reasonable Books

3645 Mount Diablo Boulevard

Lafayette, CA

9/24/22 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm with book signing and reception to follow.

Filed Under: Bay Area, Book Signing, Events, Reading Tagged With: book signing, bookstore, Kevin-Fisher Paulson, memoir, Reasonable Books, writing from life

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2/11/23 Mount Diablo California Writers Club – Writer’s Table Featured Speaker

I will be speaking on Book Hooks: Eight Seconds or Bust at the Mount Diablo CWC from 11:15 till noon, at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523, followed by a buffet lunch and Kevin Fisher Paulson who will speak on the topic of Honoring the Creative Self Meeting Cost (includes buffet […]

January 23, 2023 Travel Writing Event

Sacramento/Central Valley Friends and Fellow Writers (Zoom available): Come learn about travel writing and muse boards in the New Year. #authorlife #sacramentowriters #travel #travelblogger Zoom is also an option. #speaker #speaking #writingcommunity https://www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/2022/monthly-meeting-january-2023-travel-writing/

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