Posts Tagged ‘Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings’
Margie Yee Webb, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Elisa Sasa Southard celebrate each other’s paths

author Teresa LeYung-Ryan celebrates Love Made of Heart book and trademark - photo by Margie Yee Webb
Click here for 42-second movie of Author Teresa LeYung-Ryan celebrates Love Made of Heart (mother-daughter novel) and her trademark.
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Author of Break Through the Noise Elisa Sasa Southard celebrates new career as Travel Writer and Certified Tour Director--photo by Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Click here for one-and-a-half minute movie of: Elisa Sasa Southard celebrates the tenth anniversary of her book Break Through the Noise and her new career as Travel Writer and Certified Tour Director.

Author and documentary movie producer Margie Yee Webb celebrates Cat Mulan book, FEMME, and cat anthology - photo by Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Click here for one-minute movie of: Margie Yee Webb celebrates her book Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings, her anthology Not Your Mother’s Book . . . On Cats, and documentary movie FEMME: Women Healing the World.
Thank you to all my dear friends and colleagues!
Sincerely,
Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan helps writers transform email signature blocks, photos, website descriptions, and YouTube videos into platform statements . . . before and after publication.
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Author Teresa LeYung-Ryan celebrates 12th anniversary of Love Made of Heart – the novel she uses to encourage adult children of mentally ill parents to speak openly about the stigmas.
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What will be happening? Four days of 90+ sessions with major presenters, agents and editors; copious networking with the people who can advance your writing career, a glorious opening gala; evening Open Mic, poetry happenings, and pitch sessions…plus a SFWC writer’s bag, 2 keynote luncheons and 2 breakfasts are included. Late Registration until February 12th, 2014 is $745.00. Walk-up price will be $795.00 if there is still room.
San Francisco Writers Conference
CONFERENCE registration fee includes four days of sessions & keynotes, two breakfasts/two lunches, a Welcome Gala, unlimited networking, and more! CLICK HERE to register now.
Optional Pre & Post Event In-Depth Writing Classes on Thursday, February 13th in the evening and all day Monday, February 17th taught by some of the presenters. CLICK HERE
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Yours truly Teresa LeYung-Ryan will be co-presenting 2 sessions:
Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, 3:00-3:45pm at SFWC
Elisa “Sasa” Southard & Teresa LeYung-Ryan
present their interactive session
FROM HOOKS TO BOOKS: Grabbing the Attention of Agents and Editors with Your Talking Tagline & Platform
- create your talking-tagline (for query letter, book proposal, press releases) to hook agents, acquisition editors, readers, and the media
- make your name synonymous with the themes you write about
- have fun building your platform (for fiction and nonfiction writers)
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Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, 11:00-11:45am
Mary E. Knippel & Teresa LeYung-Ryan
present:
“BE YOUR OWN EDITOR: Ensuring Agents and Editors Love Your Work”
Learn how to inject the “5 Ws & Core Theme” and take your fiction, narrative nonfiction or prescriptive-nonfiction manuscript to the next phase.
- even if you are in a critique group or preparing to hire an editor or a book doctor
- whether you are planning to be your own publisher or pitch to agents and acquisition editors
- save money and avoid headaches
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For full schedule: http://sfwriters.org/conference-schedule/
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San Francisco Writers Conference presents:
FEMME: Women Healing the World
Free Movie Screening Open to the Public
followed by a discussion with Producer Margie Yee Webb (aka author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings)
Invite your friends who live in San Francisco!
Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, 9:00– 11:00 p.m.
California Room, California Street Level, Mark Hopkins Hotel
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Part 2 – Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s YouTube videos of FEMME: Women Healing the World movie’s Fab Four, their friends/old fans and new fans
Look for 4 more links (#5, #6, #7, #8) to videos of the FEMME movie screening in this post!

FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb with Dress Designer Neva Dinwiddie & Alexis (student in Professor Sheryl Fairchild's Psychology of Women class) - photo by Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart: a Daughter's Journey to Self-Forgiveness
VIDEO #5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vYdL-A1VU
FEMME: Women Healing the World – Early Arrivals to Movie Screening
Meredith Kennedy & Jill Smith with FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb and Director Emmanuel Itier.
Professor Sheryl Fairchild chatting with Susan Osborn, Ph.D.
Dress Designer Neva Dinwiddie and FEMME Producer/Spokeswoman/Actress Celeste Yarnall

Publishing Syndicate folks with FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb (in red dress) and Yellowbill patrons - ALL femmes healing the world- photo by 22-Day Writing & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
VIDEO #6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1tlggXy7yY
FEMME Director Emmanuel Itier, Producer/Spokeswoman/Actress Celeste Yarnall with femmes
Dress Designer Neva Dinwiddie, Aleta Kazadi, director Emmanuel Itier, Producer/Spokeswoman/Actress Celeste Yarnall, Andrea Roth and Susan Osborn, Ph.D. are all femmes! FEMME: Women Healing the World

a femme mother-daughter duo at FEMME Women Healing the World movie screening; FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb & Professor Sheryl Fairchild (Women's Studies; Global Issues) greet everyone at FEMME movie poster / resource table - photo by 22-Day Writing & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
VIDEO #7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlYzIQ5QQCI&feature=youtu.be
MEN & WOMEN attend movie screening of FEMME: Women Healing the World at Crest Theatre.
What an exciting evening! FEMME = project of love created and directed by Emmanuel Itier, Celeste Yarnall (producer, spokeswoman, actress), Nazim (artist, producer), Margie Yee Webb (producer, author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings), Sharon Stone (executive producer), and a BIG list of women & men healing the world !

Producer Margie Yee Webb (in red dress) greets movie goers at FEMME screening. Which students are from Professor Sheryl Fairchild's Global Women’s Issues class? Photo by Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart: a Daughter's Journey to Self-Forgiveness. On the "Rate Your Professors" website, students say: "Sheryl Fairchild is a wonderful professor who is thoughtful and passionate about women's studies. She is very helpful and understanding. She is great!"

Director Emmanuel Itier & Producer/Spokeswoman/Actress Celeste Yarnall happy to see FEMME fans (including Eric Dadmehr and wife) - photo by 22-Day Writing & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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FEMME Producer-Actress Celeste Yarnall (Star Trek & movie star) loves meeting new fans; Celeste's husband Nazim Artist extraordinaire sets up exhibit (his art in the movie FEMME: Women Healing the World) - photo by 22-Day Writing & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Professor Sheryl Fairchild (Women's Studies; Social Science), Teresa LeYung-Ryan (22-Day Writing Coach and author fof Love Made of Heart), dress designer Neva Dinwiddie at FEMME: Healing the World movie screening orchestrated by FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb - photo by young lady who posed with her mom in another photo
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Director Emmanuel Itier happy to meet women and men who are healing the world at FEMME screening - photo by author & 22-Day Writing & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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FEMME fans who are already healing the world - photo by Teresa LeYung-Ryan author of Love Made of Heart
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FEMME Women Healing the World movie's "Fab Four" (Director Emmanuel Itier, Producers Nazim Artist, Celeste Yarnall also spokeswoman & actress and Margie Yee Webb who found the historic Crest Theatre for the Dec. 5, 2013 screening) with friends (Jeff Wilson, Susan Osborn, Ph.D., Professor Sheryl Fairchild and Teresa LeYung-Ryan, creator of "Talking to My Dead Mom" monologues -- photo taken by co-owner of Crest Cafe
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VIDEO #8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZpM8wDJrjM&feature=youtu.be
FEMME Producer Margie Yee Webb introduces representatives from Women’s Empowerment, Yellowbill Cafe, Pakmail to Director Emmanuel Itier at movie screening of FEMME: Women Healing the World
What an exciting evening! FEMME = project of love created and directed by Emmanuel Itier, Celeste Yarnall (producer, spokeswoman, actress), Nazim (artist, producer), Margie Yee Webb (producer, author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings), Sharon Stone (executive producer), and a BIG list of women & men healing the world !
Producer Margie Yee Webb chose the historic Crest Theatre which in 1995 was restored to it’s glittery 1940?s appearance.
These videos are by author & 22-Day Writing & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Soon . . . Part 3 – Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s YouTube videos of FEMME: Women Healing the World movie’s “Fab Four” with their friends/old fans and new fans
Click here to see official trailer of FEMME: Women Healing the World
Wishing Everyone Peace & Love!
Sincerely,
Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to say: “The fun part of being a writer/writing coach is receiving exciting news from friends/colleagues.”
Author Margie Yee Webb (Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life), who is an associate-producer of the film FEMME–Women Healing the World, forwarded this email:
From: Emmanuel Itier
Subject: Fwd: FEMME – “work in progress” screening at The Awareness Film Festival.
Dear Friend:
at The Awareness Film Festival (http://
I will be there for a Q&A after the show and will have surprise guests!
See you at the Awareness Festival!! Hope you can make it!! Invite friends…

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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Hearty Congratulations to Margie and everyone involved in FEMME; Carol, her new play On With the Wind, and everyone at Fringe of Marin Festival of One Acts; Lynn and everyone involved in her guidebook TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Cheering for writers and readers and everyone who has a story in her/his heart!
author of Love Made of Heart – the mother/daughter love story
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Have you seen Coach Teresa interviewed by Frank Mallicoat on CBS Channel 5?
Coach Teresa, what happened on Feb. 16, 2012 at San Francisco Writers Conference?
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here . . . this is what happened from my point of view. Tell me and my colleagues your point of view by submitting comments to this blog post. How? Click on the blue title bar of this post, scroll down to get the boxes, fill in boxes and click on “submit comment” button.
I took BART into The City and then MUNI #1 to meet co-presenter & colleague Mary E. Knippel. At 6:00pm we were to deliver BE YOUR OWN EDITOR at the San Francisco Writers Conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel at top of Nob Hill.
Authentic details for writers who want to get to the top of Nob Hill: If you off-board BART at Embarcadero station, come up to street level that is closest to Drumm Street. Walk northward on Drumm, then westward on Sacramento Street (a one-way street). At Sacramento St. (near Davis St.), you’d catch the MUNI #1 bus that travels westward on Sacramento Street. $2 fare (driver gives y0u a transfer that’s good for 4 hours).
The ride is about 10 blocks or .7 mile (through Financial District and Chinatown, and up the hills). If you’re concerned about not knowing how to push the bell or pull the cord to request your stop, ask the bus driver or fellow passengers to look out for you. Off-board at Mason; walk a block southward on Mason to get to California St. (California St. is parallel to Sacramento St.). Wait for signals to cross the street. There you are–at the International Mark Hopkins.
As soon as you step onto the bricked courtyard, courteous hotel employees will greet you.
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Story Consultant and Writers' Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan happy to present at SFWC again
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I saw Laurie McLean, Barbara Santos & Richard Santos, Nina Amir, Neal Sofman, dear mentors Michael Larsen & Elizabeth Pomada, Stephanie Chandler and other colleagues. Our session was to begin at 6:00pm. Among the writers who attended our session “Be Your Own Editor” were memoirist Jing Li, journalist and novelist Don Hudson and Margie Yee Webb (author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings)!
Thank you, Patrick, for setting up the microphone–the room was long–without the microphone, the writers sitting in the back would have had difficulty hearing us.
Thank you to each writer in the room! Here’s an offer to you if you were in our session on Feb. 16, 2012 – I’ll be happy to read and give feedback to the first 2 pages (double spaced; pages numbered; manuscript title and your full name in the header) of your manuscript. Email me: your full name; your project’s genre; list of your themes. Then I’ll let you know when would be the best time to email me your first 2 pages. I’ll arrange my schedule so that I can focus on one writer a day. My email address is at gmail.com My User Name is: WritingCoachTeresa
Mary E. Knippel & Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Being Your Own Editor
Ensure Your Manuscript 100% Ready For the Next Step
• hire a book doctor/developmental editor OR
• pitch to agents or acquisition editors OR
• be your own publisher
fiction / narrative nonfiction / prescriptive nonfiction (“how-to” books)
YOUR NAME: ______________________________ Your Project: ________________________________
Tool #1 Grounding Reader with the three Ws (Who? When? Where?)
Tool #2 Hooking Reader from first page to last with core theme and “What does Protagonist want?” (in prescriptive nonfiction “What does Reader need?”)
Tool #3 In Fiction & Narrative Nonfiction (both genres are forms of “story-telling”) Who are your protagonist, antagonist, and other archetypes?
Tool #4 In Fiction & Narrative Nonfiction (front story / back story)
Tool #5 Foreshadows Metaphors Recurring Images
Tool #6 Authentic Details
Tool #7 Monologue Dialogue Vernacular
Tool #8 Misspelled words; misplaced modifiers; other frights
and 15 minutes for Questions & Answers
Thank you, dear mentors Michael Larsen & Elizabeth Pomada, for inviting Mary and me to deliver our signature presentation “Be Your Own Editor”!
Thank you, dear Birgit Soyka author of To Drink the Wild Air, for bringing your camera tripod!
Thank you, dear Margie Yee Webb, author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life, for introducing Mary and me, for taking photos, for having written the purr-fect gift book and letting me show in our session how every page of a prescriptive nonfiction book ought to contain inspiration, wisdom or a metaphor.
Thank you, Camille Thompson, columnist at SanRamonPatch.com, for your gracious help, making our session an enjoyable one.
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- authors & story consultants Mary E. Knippel & Teresa LeYung-Ryan give 8 tools at BE YOUR OWN EDITOR packed house session SFWC–photo by author Margie Yee Webb
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authors & story consultants Mary E Knippel & Teresa LeYung-Ryan attract writers at BE YOUR OWN EDITOR packed house session SFWC-photo by author Margie Yee Webb
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Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: "Wearing your 2 hats as a writer---to polish your manuscript and to build your platform---can be as fun as riding a San Francisco cable car."
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Across the street at the Fairmont Hotel – LEARNING & the BRAIN Conference–Connecting Educators to Neuroscientists and Researchers
Vehicular traffic was blocked off in the area because President Obama was to speak at the Masonic Auditorium that evening!
Coach Teresa here took the cable car to go home and pack for Day II of San Francisco Writers Conference. Please see next post.
Sincerely
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams!”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW
As editor/story consultant, Coach Teresa helps her clients polish their manuscripts by identifying themes and archetypes.
Her novel Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes. Thank you, Teachers & Students!