Set Your Characters Free

The pitfalls and unexpected rewards of turning memoir into fiction.
with
Mary-Rose Hayes

Sunday, April 13, 2014
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Passage – 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera

Mary-Rose-Hayesx250Mary-Rose Hayes will discuss writing her new novel WHAT SHE HAD TO DO; the reasons it took so long (more than ten years) and how that was a blessing in
disguise; Hayes-What-She-Had-To-Dowhy the characters in the book didn’t seem real until she stepped out of their lives and allowed them to develop on their own; and how, by the time she had typed “THE END” for the final time, she had surprisingly come to terms with past issues of her own.

British-born Mary-Rose Hayes is the author of eight previous novels including the TIME/LIFE best seller AMETHYST, and two political thrillers co-authored with Senator Barbara Boxer.


The Marin branch was chartered with CWC in 1999. For additional information, visit our History page or the California Writers Club website: www.calwriters.org

Michael David Lukas

“The Evolution of a Book:
From Idea to Publication”

Sunday, October 27, 2013: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Book Passage, Corte Madera

Author of the bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. A 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and finalist for the 2012 California Book Award, he lives in Oakland.

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Michael David Lukas

Michael is a recipient of scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Summer Writers’ Institute, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Elizabeth George Foundation.

Sunday, October 27, 2013, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Book Passage, Corte Madera.

Christie Nelson Reading

Mill Valley Outdoor Art Club presents

ChristieNelsonCalifornia Writer Club member Christie Nelson, author of Dreaming Mill Valley, Woodacre and My Moveable Feast

and

John M. King, writer and Publisher of Mill Valley Literary Review, Place as Character

Please join us for a discussion, reading and slide show

Thursday, September 19, 1PM
One West Blithedale, Mill Valley 94941
www.outdoorartclub.org
415-383-2582

Free and Open to the Public

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Marin Writes – Join Us

Marin Writes – Join Us

Hello again, Marin writers and CWC members!

Only three weeks until our exciting Marin Writes mini-conference on September 22!  We’ve got Constance Hale as plenary speaker, agents and publishers waiting to hear your pitches, and wonderful readers—and a lot of great donations of food and beverages.

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