Posts Tagged ‘Santa Rosa’
To see the list of all the branches of California Writers’ Club http://calwriters.org
California Writers’ Club – San Francisco Peninsula Branch
May 18, 2013, 10:00 am
Belmont Public Library (just south of Ralston on Alameda de las Pulgas), Belmont, CA
This month’s speaker, author David Corbett, will speak on “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film and TV.” The meeting begins at 10 a.m. at the Belmont Public Library. $15 for CWC members and $18 for non-members. Students get in for $10 with a valid ID. First Meeting Free!
For more information about David Corbett, visit
For directions and more information about the meeting and CWC, visit http://cwc-peninsula.org
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California Writers’ Club – Redwood Branch
Sunday afternoon, May 19, 2013, for the Redwood Writers
Flamingo Hotel, 2777 Fourth St., Santa Rosa, CA
Author Support Group, 1:00-2:15 p.m. led by Deborah Taylor-French
Registration, Meet and Greet 2:30 p.m.
General Membership Meeting 3-5 p.m. – Meeting starts at 3 p.m. sharp!
Flamingo Hotel, Empire Rooms
2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405-4795, (707) 545-8530
See our website for a map: www.redwoodwriters.org
Members $5; nonmembers $8
“Five Things That Are Killing Your Story” with Jana McBurney-Lin
In her decades of writing and editing fiction, Jana McBurney-Lin discovered there are five basic elements necessary to bring life into any story. Let her help you breathe life into yours. McBurney-Lin appears on Sunday, May 19 from 3-5 p.m. Admission is $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers. Sponsored by Redwood Writers. For more information www.redwoodwriters.org
McBurney-Lin is the author of two acclaimed novels. My Half of the Sky (KOMENAR Publishing, 2006) received numerous awards, including Booksense Pick of the Month, Forbes Book Club Pick and Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year (Honorable Mention). Her recently released novel, Blossoms and Bayonets (Redwood Publishing, 2012), is “suspenseful and deeply affecting,” according to best-selling novelist Caroline Leavitt.
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
22-Day Writers’ Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says:
“Build your writer’s platform and work on the craft, simultaneously with ease. I’m cheering for you!”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
What Is Happening this Weekend November 16, 17, 18, 2012 for Writers and Readers in northern California?
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The award-winning guidebook TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir: How to Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing Character & Spirit
If you could tell just one small story that would reveal the essence of your mother’s character and keep her spirit alive, what would it be?
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Saturday, November 17, 2012, 9:30 am–1:30 pm
“The Narrator’s Tale: All About Point of View” Workshop at Redwood Writers
Presented by Ana Manwaring
Flamingo Conference Resort & Spa,
2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
$25 members, $35 non-members
Register: http://redwoodwriters.org/workshops/november-2012-workshop/
A workshop on the intricacies of Point of View. This will be a hands on workshop so come prepared with pen, paper, and a scene from your original writing (double spaced) that includes plenty of narration.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012 10:00am Belmont, CA Library
San Francisco Peninsula Branch of California Writers Club presents:
Tanya Egan Gibson: Author, Editor, Writing Coach
Learn the various ways you can get the details of places right (even without a travel budget), how to make your world exciting, and and how to use your world to strengthen both plot and characterization. For more: tanyaegangibson.com Tanya is the author of How To Buy a Love of Reading.
Members $15, Non-Members $18, Students $10 with ID
http://www.cwc-peninsula.org/events_pay.html
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Saturday, November 17th, 2012 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Sacramento Branch of California Writers Club
Luncheon November 2012: Karl Palachuk, publisher
Topic: Publishing Your Own Book: What’s new, what’s important, what’s essential?
Members $12.00, Non-Members $14.00
Meetings are held at:
Tokyo Buffet restaurant
7217 Greenback Ln., Citrus Heights, CA 95621
http://www.cwcsacramentowriters.org
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Nov. 2 – 18, 2012 Fringe of Marin Festival of New Bay Area One-Act Plays and Solos
http://www.fringeofmarin.com/index.html
http://www.fringeofmarin.com/performanceschedule.html
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan and author Lynn Scott will catch a show in Program 2 to cheer for playwrights Carol Sheldon (On With the Wind) and Ollie Mae Trost Welch (Shaw). Annette Lust, I cheer for you always!
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Sunday, November 18, 2012, 2:00pm
Berkeley Branch of California Writers Club
Speaker — “Scenes for the Novel and the Screen” with James Dalessandro
at the Oakland Main Library, Bradley C. Walters Community Room, also known as the West Auditorium, Oakland, CA
Monthly Speaker Programs (FREE)
1:05 p.m. Doors Open, Marketing Group
1:30-2:00 pm Social Time
2:00 to 4:30 pm Announcements, Program & More Social Time

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Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, Teresa says: “Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Authors Margie Yee Webb, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Rita Lakin join forces for fun at Sonoma County Book Festival
If you’re going to be at the festival, or, if you know any of the authors, tell us by submitting a comment to this post. Click on the blue header of this post, scroll down to get the boxes, fill in the boxes and press [submit comment] button. Consider keeping a copy of your comment (before pressing submit-comment button) and use it in your own email signature-block and on other blogs.
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authors Margie Yee Webb, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Rita Lakin will be exhibiting their books at the Sonoma County Book Festival
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Saturday September 22, 2012, 10:00am – 4:00pm in Santa Rosa, CA
authors Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Margie Yee Webb, Rita Lakin
will be exhibiting their books at the
Sonoma County Book Festival at Old Courthouse Square
Fourth Street and Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA
Look for Margie, Teresa and Rita at Booth B2 (near Information/Raffle Booth which is B1)
Margie Yee Webb is author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life
Teresa LeYung-Ryan (a.k.a. Coach Teresa) is author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days; Love Made of Heart; Answer Me Now
Rita Lakin is author of the Gladdy Gold mystery series – Getting Old Can Kill You; Getting Old Is A Disaster; Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux; Getting Old Is To Die For; Getting Old Is Criminal; Getting Old Is The Best Revenge; Getting Old Is Murder
We are going to see many colleagues . . . from Redwood Writers (California Writers Club), Women’s National Book Association, 6th Street Playhouse, Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, Literary Arts Guild, Free Bookmobile of Sonoma County, Friends of the Library . . . including Festival Director Frances Caballo, Redwood Writers Volunteer Coordinator Robbi Sommers Bryant, Kate Farrell, Redwood Writers Village’s Readers Circle Coordinator Ana Manwaring, Amanda McTigue, bigwords101 – Arlene Miller, Harry Reid, Linda Reid, Melissa Kelley, Jana McBurney-Lin, Local Author’s Distribution – Jeane Slone, Juanita J. Martin, Kid Lit Corner: Get Out Books & Black Garnet Press, Susan Pace-Koch, Cara Black, Laura Rennert, P.S. Foley, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Rita Lakin, Margie Yee Webb. Also look for Copperfield’s, Harper Davis Publishers, Healdsburg Literary Guild, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Poetry Flash, Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, Sitting Room, Sixteen Rivers Press. For a full list of exhibitors this year, please go to: http://www.socobookfest.org/exhibitors/
Cheering for all writers and readers!
Sincerely,
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
Please click here to see Coach Teresa interviewed by Frank Mallicoat on Channel 5 Bay Sunday - the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am.
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Update: Colleagues Leon Veal, Judith Marshall, Chandra Garsson, Sheryl Fairchild, Susan Pace-Koch, Dave LaRoche, and of course Cindy Sample and Jennifer Walker have sent their good wishes to Margie Yee Webb via my facebook posting of this blog post.
Margie Yee Webb, author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life, enjoys promoting her book in person.
Margie says: “I am so excited since I have seen some authors at Apple Hill before and wanted to do an event there. So when Cindy Sample asked me, I said yes!”
10th Annual Art in the Orchard
September 8 & 9, 2012
11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Author Appearance and Book Signing
Rainbow Orchards – #10
2569 Larsen Drive
Camino, CA 95709
Local Authors Margie Yee Webb (Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life), Cindy Sample (Dying for a Dance and Dying for a Date) and Jennifer Walker (Bubba Goes National and Bubba to the Rescue) will be signing their books and talking to fans.
Click here Margie’s calendar of events for details of this fun event.
Click here for Margie Yee Webb’s website to see how this author builds her writer’s platform and fanbase

Click here for El Dorado Arts Council
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Then, on Saturday Sept. 22, 2012, 10:00am – 4:00pm Margie Yee Webb, Rita Lakin (Gladdy Gold mystery series) and I (Teresa LeYung-Ryan) will co-exhibit our books and have fun with our colleagues and fans at the Sonoma County Book Festival in Santa Rosa, CA. Click here for my webpage of events.
Sincerely,

writers' platform-building coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: "Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams!"
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
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Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to cheer for author Margie Yee Webb who does so much for colleagues, aspiring writers, and communities to promote literacy and animal welfare.
What’s Margie’s book? Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life
“The playful maxims with equally delightful photographs in Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings inspire readers to fall in love with life.” – Teresa LeYung- Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart; Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days

Margie will be at the fair these dates: * July 14 * July 16 * July 23 * July 24 * July 29 *
I see that Naida West, Sandy Baker, Hazuki Kataoka & D. Battino, James Van Eaton, Denise Lee Branco, Margaret Murray will be exhibiting too! Cheers to Margie Yee Webb and all the authors! For the full list of California authors at the state fair, with Naida West as Author Manager: http://www.bridgehousebooks.com/events/statefair2012.htm
For state fair general information and directions to the fairgrounds: http://www.bigfun.org
Where else would you find Margie Yee Webb ?
Author/Photographer of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life
http://www.catmulan.com
California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch
“Serving The Greater Sacramento Region”
http://www.
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Coach Teresa says: “I love helping writers build their platforms and published authors fortify theirs with individualized coaching.”
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she advices: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship.
Teresa LeYung-Ryan helps clients identify themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story in their manuscripts.
June 12, 2012
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan Has Fun with Colleagues at San Mateo County Fair 2012
Please click on the title bar of this post, scroll down, and submit a comment – what were you doing at the Literary Arts stage area?
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children's book author and poet Ida J. Lewenstein performs at San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts stage
5:00-6:00pm Playwrights Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Ollie Mae Trost Welch, David Hirzel (author interviews by Darlene Frank after the plays are read)
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Martin Shane Dowd (portraying George Bernard Shaw) and Christopher Wachlin (portraying God) reads Ollie Mae Trost Welch's play SHAW
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Playwright Teresa LeYung-Ryan reads her 10-minute monologue Answer Me Now at San Mateo County Fair--photo by Martin Shane Dowd
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s 10-minute monologue Answer Me Now (middle-aged woman asks her dead mother a question) is one of nine winning-plays to be produced by Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse Play Festival.
2012 Performance Dates:
- June 29 – 8:00 PM
- June 30 – 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
- July 1 – 2:00 PM
6th Street Playhouse – Studio Theater – Santa Rosa, CA
All Tickets: $16.00 – purchase by phone (707) 523-4185 ext 1 or online
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David Hirzel, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Ollie Mae Trost Welch, Ida J. Lewenstein having fun at Literary Arts Stage, San Mateo County Fair
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First Place Winner of 2012 Immigrant Experience Writing Contest sponsored by Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Boris Koodrin Director of the Fine Arts Galleria at San Mateo County Fair chats with Darlene Frank - Writer, Editor, Creativity Coach for Writers
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Teresa LeYung-Ryan helps clients identify themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story in their manuscripts.
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship.
Teresa created the annual “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” and cheers for all contestants.
http://writingcoachteresa.com for her Blog, events, and other resources.
Coach Teresa’s June and July 2012
Dear Writers,
If you’re in northern California, or if you have writer-friends in the area . . . please come by and see me . . .
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Listen to Bardi Rosman Koodrin with “Arts In the Valley” Radio Show Host Kim McMillon: http://artsinthevalley.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/san-mateo-fair.mp3
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 5:00-6:00pm 3 playwrights at the San Mateo County Fair in California
the Literary Arts stage area in the Fine Arts Department at the fair.
https://www.sanmateocountyfair.com/ The fair runs from June 9 – 17, 2012.
Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Ollie Mae Trost Welch, David Hirzel (author interviews by Darlene Frank and audience Q&A after the plays are read)
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Saturday, June 16, 2012 2:00-4:00pm Authors Day at the San Mateo County Fair in California.
the Literary Arts stage area in the Fine Arts Department at the fair.
Meet Teresa LeYung-Ryan (author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW and Love Made of Heart and Answer Me Now – her short play) and her colleagues at California Writers Club.
https://www.sanmateocountyfair.com/ The fair runs from June 9 – 17, 2012.
Writing Contest winning entries will be displayed in the Literary Arts area; Teresa LeYung-Ryan sponsored the 2nd annual Immigrant Experience Writing Contest. Good luck to all contestants!
Bardi Rosman Koodrin brought literary arts to the county fair 4 years ago.
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For all events sponsored by California Writers Club – San Francisco Peninsula Branch please go to: http://www.cwc-peninsula.org/
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June 29, 30; July 1, 2012
http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/coach-teresa-leyung-ryan-having-the-time-of-her-life-as-playwright/
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s 10-minute monologue Answer Me Now (middle-aged woman asks her dead mother a question) is one of nine winning-plays to be produced by Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse Play Festival.
2012 Performance Dates:
- June 29 – 8:00 PM
- June 30 – 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
- July 1 – 2:00 PM
6th Street Playhouse – Studio Theater – Santa Rosa, CA
All Tickets: $16.00 – purchase by phone (707) 523-4185 ext 1 or online
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For all events sponsored by California Writers Club – Redwood Branch – please go to: www.redwoodwriters.org
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Monday, July 9, 2012, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94111
Teresa LeYung-Ryan interviews Carol Sheldon (author of Mother Lode)
Left Coast Writers honors Carol Sheldon !
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Saturday July 14, 2012, noon – 2:00pm at Oakland Public Library – Rockridge Branch, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA
Join playwright, and radio host Kim McMillon for the free Writers’ workshop “Writers on Writing.” Award-winning Australian author and journalist Stephanie Dale will help authors find their inner voice as writers. Teresa LeYung-Ryan will speak on creating your writing platform and building your brand as a writer. Poet and composer Judith Cody discusses how to write for and publish an anthology; author and columnist Yolande Barial will demonstrate the importance of finding your passion, while author an educator Joan Gelfand will deconstruct the process of getting published. This workshop is for writers with a desire to find their voice, write, and promote their work. A reception and book-signing will follow the presentation.
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Teresa LeYung-Ryan helps clients identify themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story in their manuscripts.
As author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship.
Teresa created the annual “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” and cheers for all contestants.
http://writingcoachteresa.com for her Blog, events, and other resources.
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan Having the Time of Her Life as Playwright

Redwood Writers winning playwrights with directors and actors invite YOU to 10-minute plays June 29, 30, July 1, 2012 -- photo by Jonathan Hayden
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actress Stacey Marie Kerr and director Lennie Dean review lines in 10-minute monologue Answer Me Now (middle-aged woman asks her dead mother a question) written by Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Lennie Dean directs Stacey Marie Kerr in Answer Me Now by Teresa LeYung-Ryan as Jonathan Hayden sets up shot
Coach Teresa here. I witnessed the readings of the nine 10-minute plays being produced by Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California.
Nine plays – all winners – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll laugh some more. Please tell a friend or two and order tickets to support 6th Street Playhouse and enjoy the show. Go to: http://www.6thstreetplayhouse.com/online-ticketing/show-availability/?show=328 or call 24- hour voice mail: (707) 523-4185 ext 1

playwright Teresa LeYung-Ryan (Answer Me Now), actress Stacey Marie Kerr, festival director (and director for Answer Me Now) Lennie Dean and fellow directors, playwrights, actors invite you to the Redwood Writers 10-Minute Plays at 6th Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa, CA June 29, 30 and July 1, 2012
The winning plays and playwrights include . . . .
Running order will be:
Act I
Gravediggers by Gene Griffith
Answer Me Now by Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Special Delivery by Malena Eljumaily
BFF by Jean Wong
Turn The Other by Amanda McTigue
Act 2
Dream Girl by Elizabeth VanPatten
GPS by Harry Reid
There There, Now by Nancy Lockard Gallop
The Play’s the Thang by Elaine Maikovska, J.D.
2012 Performance Dates:
- June 29 – 8:00 PM
- June 30 – 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
- July 1 – 2:00 PM
6th Street Playhouse – Studio Theater – Santa Rosa, CA
All Tickets: $16.00 – purchase online or by phone
Go to: http://www.6thstreetplayhouse.com/online-ticketing/show-availability/?show=328 or call 24- hour voice mail: (707) 523-4185 ext 1
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Processing Playwriting: Q&A with the nine winning playwrights
Join the playwrights for a Q&A about their plays, their process, and their experience with having a first production of their works.
- July 1, 4:30 PM – (following matinee of plays)
6th Street Playhouse - Studio Theater
This event is FREE to the public
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July 1, 2012 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
Workshop with GARRET JON GROENVELD
6th Street Playhouse – GK Hardt Theatre – Santa Rosa, CA
Tuition: $10.00 – purchase by phone (707) 523-4185 ext 1
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actress Stacey Marie Kerr, festival director Lennie Dean, playwright Teresa LeYung-Ryan with The Linda Loveland Reid
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playwrights Elaine Maikovska, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Jean Wong invite you to June 29, 30 and July 1, 2012 performances at 6th Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa, CA
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playwright Malena Eljumaily--Special Delivery--with actors Eyan Dean & Monica McKey and director Linda Loveland Reid
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Processing Playwriting: Q&A with the nine winning playwrights
Join the playwrights for a Q&A about their plays, their process, and their experience with having a first production of their works.
- July 1, 2012 4:30-5:00pm – (following matinee of plays)
6th Street Playhouse - Studio Theater
This event is FREE to the public
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Maria, Vicki, and other darlings who will not be able to attend–I will get DVDs for you.
Other dear friends, I hope you can make it.
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Teresa LeYung-Ryan helps clients identify themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story. As author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.” Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship. Teresa created the annual “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” and cheers for all contestants. http://writingcoachteresa.com for her Blog, events, and other resources.
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan Would Like To Know If You Will Be Attending Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse Play Festival 2012
Hello, Everyone!
I am proud to announce that my short-short-play Answer Me Now has been selected as one of the nine short-short-plays for this year’s festival and fundraiser June 29-July 1, 2012. Tickets will be on sale through the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA.
$16 per person for all 9 short-short plays
Tickets on sale now!! 707-523-4185
June 29, Friday at 8pm;
June 30, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm;
July 1, Sunday at 2pm.
July 1st 4:30-5pm, following performance, free panel discussion with winning playwrights
Answer Me Now is a 10-minute monologue (middle-aged woman asking her dead mom a question). Autobiographical? Please see the play and decide for yourself. I hope you’ll be able to attend a performance. Festival Director Lennie Dean is lining up directors. Who will be directing my play?
I can’t wait to see the other 8 plays written by fellow playwrights.
Festival Director Lennie Dean says: “More than 20 roles to cast and we will use 12 actors for these 20 some roles…. I have been working to firm up all of the events planned for the festival and will also send the line-up of the different events to all very soon.”
(Teresa here . . . I’ll update my Events page on my website as I receive more info).
If you’re planning to catch a performance, please email me (I’m at gmail.com My ID is: WritingCoachTeresa). I’d like to greet you in person before and after the show. Santa Rosa is a lovely town; perhaps you can support the festival and visit other attractions too.

Playwright Teresa LeYung-Ryan cheers for everyone involved in the Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse Play Festival 2012
Malena Eljumaily Special Delivery
Nancy Lockard Gallop There There, Now
Gene Griffith Gravediggers
Teresa LeYung-Ryan Answer Me Now
Amanda McTigue Turn The Other
Elaine Maikovska The Play Is the Thang
Harry Reid GPS
Elizabeth VanPatten Dream Girl
Jean Wong BFF
I look forward to seeing you!
Sincerely,
As editor/story consultant, Teresa LeYung-Ryan identifies themes and universal archetypes for clients.
As author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes. She says her novel and her play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship.
http://writingcoachteresa.com for Coach Teresa’s Blog and other resources.
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to encourage you to pursue more and more resources . . . by visiting my website and this blog on a regular basis to find other people who can help you polish your craft and further build your platform. If you are not in the vicinity of the events I blog about . . . please look at the names of the people who are referenced in my posts, go to their websites by clicking on the links I provide or your keying their names in a search engine. The people I blog about will lead you to their colleagues, and so on. More ways to build your platform? See the exercises in Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days.
An Evening of Poetry
Friday – April 27,2012 – 6:15 to 9:30 pm
Flamingo Hotel – Empire Room, 2777 Fourth St., Santa Rosa, CA 95405 707-523-4745 dinner included
Register: http://redwoodwriters.org/conference/poetrynight/
AL YOUNG-Evening Keynote Speaker
From 2005 through 2008, Al Young served as poet laureate of California. Other honors include NEA, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, and most recently, the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Award. Widely translated, Al Young’s many books include poetry, fiction, essays, anthologies and musical memoirs.
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Petaluma native, Bill Vartnaw is Sonoma County Poet Laureate, 2012-2013.
Bill has a master’s degree in poetics from New College of California. He has been writing seriously for over 35 years. Bill is the author of Concern: for Angels and Suburbs of my Childhood. He is also founder of Taurean Horn Press and has published 14 books. He has spent his life in the service of poetry, often helping his fellow poets behind the scenes of the Petaluma Poetry Walk.
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Juanita Martin is the 1st Poet Laureate, Fairfield, CA 2010-2012. She is an award-winning poet, freelance writer and performance artist. Her poetry appears in journals such as Blue Collar Review, Some Literary Review and Rattlesnake Review.
She’s an active member of Ina Coolbrith Circle, Redwood Writers and Marin Poetry Center.
Juanita at 50, won the honor scroll award in the 2011 National Senior Poet Laureate competition. Juanita is currently working on a book of poetry called The Lighthouse Beckons.
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Redwood Writers NEXT STEP 2012 Conference, Saturday, April 28 , 2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
at Santa Rosa Junior College, Bertolini Student Union, 311 Elliot St., Santa Rosa, CA
Sandy Baker (2012 Conference Chair), Linda Loveland Reid (president of Redwood Branch of California Writers Club), and all the officers and board members deserve big thanks!
Keynote speaker is David Corbett on “Beyond the Book: Writing Opportunities in a Multi-Platform Era.”
“Leap into Tomorrow’s Publishing” Luncheon Panel: Laurie McLean, Mark Coker, Charlotte Cook and Joel Friedlander; Linda McCabe, Moderator
Looks like 20 fabulous presenters will be teaching at this conference that offers 4 tracks: Craft; Genre; Publishing; Marketing.
To register: http://redwoodwriters.org/conference/registration/
Craft Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am David Corbett “The Next Step: Finding the Character Behind the Character”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Geri Spieler “Fact Finding for Fiction Writers: Easy Research Techniques to Pump Up your Novel”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Arlene Miller “Grammar: Don’t Skip this Important Step”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Catherine Brady “Revealing Character through Dialogue”
Genre Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am Christorpher Gortner “Historical Fiction: Stepping Back in Time”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Deborah Grabien “Jumping into Mystery with Character”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Jody Gerrmann “Give Your Young Adult Fiction Zap and Zing!”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Abby Bogomolny “Poetry: The Oldest Literature”
Publishing Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am Verna Dreisbach “Fabulous Fiction”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Pete Masterson “Indie Publishing How-To”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Laurie McLean & Verna Dreisbach “Undercover Agents”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Panel: ebooks “Leap into the Future” Robert Digitale, Scott James, Mark Coker, & Rob Loughran (Kate Farrell, Moderator)
Marketing Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am Frances Caballo “I’m on Facebook! (Now What?)”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Joel Friedlander “Author Blogging 101”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Lee Stein “Getting Found: Using Google (and other tools) to Promote Your Book and Yourself”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Jeane Slone and Suzanne Lang “Local Steps in Promoting Your Book”
Cheering for all writers and readers!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa says: “Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams!”
As editor/story consultant, Coach Teresa helps her clients polish their manuscripts by identifying their themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story.
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