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How to Prepare for Making Your Pitch to an Agent
You’ve signed up to meet with an agent and pitch your book at the CWC-Marin’s Writer’s Life Conference in April 10. On the schedule, you have five minutes. Not much time. However, ideally you want to make your case within the first minute, minute and a half. So you...
Join us for The Writer’s Life Conference — April 10, 2016
[ workshop flyer | registration | volunteer signup | how to pitch an agent ] Join us for a daylong conference covering fiction and nonfiction writing, with three literary agents available for five-minute pitches. (See How to Prepare for Making Your Pitch to an...
John Byrne Barry’s Bones in the Wash Wins BAIPA Best Book 2015
John Byrne Barry’s first novel—Bones in the Wash: Politics Is Tough. Family Is Tougher—won two awards from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) at its December meeting, the Best Fiction (Mystery or Science Fiction) and the top prize, Best Book 2015....
All Things Travel Writing — February 28
Join us for our February meeting, featuring Spud Hilton on All Things Travel Writing.
Writers Want to Write, Right?
We’re a writers’ club, so how’s this for a radical New Year’s resolution — let’s pool our writing chops to spread the word about the CWC-Marin Branch, our upcoming monthly meetings and April Writer’s Life workshop, and our own books and poems and stories? We have a...
The Blessing (and Curse) of Mild Success
Anatomy of the Wasted Author Tour When my recent book tour ended — “not with a bang, but a whimper,” to borrow from the Hollow Men — I was relieved it was over. Now I wish I had more readings scheduled. The “Wasted Author Tour,” which included ten event in Detroit,...
The Power of Revision, with Michael David Lucas
Join us Sunday, January 31, for Michael David Lucas' presentation on The Power of Revision. Members, please come early for our 1 pm Opening Act (Open Mic). Please note: Opening Act has been postponed until the February meeting.
CWC-Marin Branch Book Launch
Join us this Sunday for our branch-wide book launch. We have two additional authors — Carol Sheldon, author of "A Sleuth in Sausalito," and Roberto Haro, author of "Snowy Elixir: Formula for Death."
How to Survive NaNoWriMo and Find the Right Critique Group
[Summary of CWC-Marin Presentation — October 26, 2015] How to Survive NaNoWriMo Last Sunday’s “Calling All Writers” event at Book Passage provided two useful tools for writers, established and novice alike. The first hour focused on “How to Survive NaNoWriMo” —...
Author Interviews, Member Bios, Meeting Notes, and Opening Acts
Shameless Self-Promotion or Selfless Promotion of Others? One benefit of being a California Writers Club member is, or should be, an opportunity to get more readers for whatever you’re writing. But many of us are uncomfortable promoting ourselves. So let’s promote...