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Author Lunch, Mechanics
Institute Library
Friday, August 16, 2019, 12:00 Noon
57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
4th Floor, Chess Room (Free to Public, refreshments available)
What are the secrets to success for
novels? At least one of them is structure and our esteemed WNBA-SF
member authors will share the approaches that have garnered them
bestseller status, awards and rave reviews. Learn
what role planning and research play and how to make your scenes,
settings, and characters realistic and compulsively readable from
beginning to end. The Women’s National Book Association’s San Francisco
Chapter is thrilled to present three examplar writers
for in-depth explanations of the strategies that inform their craft.
A Novel Plan will be moderated by
WNBA-SF President Brenda Knight. There will be Q&A followed by book
signings; bring your notebooks and plenty of questions!
Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte is an Oakland multidisciplinary writer
whose works artfully succeed in getting across deeper meanings about
life and the politics of race and economics without breaking out of the
narrative, with Oakland often serving as the backdrop for her touching
and often hilarious works. Her first book,
A Dollar Five-Stories From A Baby Boomer’s Ongoing Journey (2014) has been described as “ rich in vivid imagery”, and “incredible.” Her second book,
All That and More’s Wedding (2016),
a collection of fictional mystery/crime short stories, is praised as
“imaginative with colorful and likeable characters that draw you in to
each story and leave you wanting more.” Her latest book,
Running for the 2:10 (2017), a follow-on to
A Dollar Five,
delves deeper into her coming of age in Oakland and the embedded issues
of race and skin color with one reviewer calling it “… a great
contribution to literature.” Her fictional story, “Uncle Martin” will be
published by Medusa’s Laugh Press Summer 2019. She currently has a
novel in progress titled “Betrayal on the Bayou,” slated for publication
in early 2020. She is also a contributor to award winning author Kate
Farrell’s upcoming book “Story Power,” an anthology on how writers build
and create their stories.
Mary
Mackey is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels, including The Earthsong Series—four novels which describe how the peaceful
Goddess-worshiping people of Prehistoric Europe fought off patriarchal nomad invaders (The Village of Bones, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses at the Gate, and The Fires of Spring
). Mary’s novels have been praised by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Pat
Conroy, Thomas Moore, Marija Gimbutas, Maxine Hong Kingston, Marge
Piercy, and Theodore Roszak for their historical accuracy,
inventiveness, literary grace, vividness, and storytelling magic.
They have made The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle
Bestseller Lists, been translated into twelve foreign languages and sold
over a million and a half copies. Mary has also written seven
collections of poetry including Sugar
Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN
Oakland Josephine Miles Award. This September Marsh Hawk Press will
publish a collection of her new and selected poems entitled The Jaguars That Prowl
Our Dreams. At marymackey.com
, you can get the latest news about
Mary’s books and public appearances, sample her work, sign up for her
newsletter, and get writing advice. You can also find her on Facebook and
follow her on Twitter @MMackeyAuthor.
Joan
Gelfand’s reviews, stories and poetry have appeared in over 100
national and international literary journals and magazines including
Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Kalliope, California Quarterly, the Toronto
Review, Marsh Hawk Review and Levure Litteraire.
Joan has been a featured reader at
numerous venues in the United States and Mexico including Bowery Poetry
Club, the Southern Festival of Books, The Public Library of New York,
and Litquake. Development Chair of the Women’s
National Book Association, a member of the National Book Critics Circle
and a juror for the Northern California Book Awards, Joan blogs for the
Huffington Post and coaches writers. She lives in San Francisco with
her husband, Adam Hertz and two beatnik kitties
– Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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