See you Sunday! Julia Flynn Siler on the Last Hawaiian Queen

May 16, 2013

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Julia Flynn Siler with Kristen Caven at the Lost Kingdom book launch

We are looking forward to this Sunday’s meeting!

Julia Flynn Siler is a prize-winning author and journalist. Grove/Atlantic published Lost Kingdom in early 2013. Her first book was The New York Times bestseller, The House of Mondavi.

As a veteran correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and Business Week, Ms. Flynn Siler spent more than two decades in Europe and the United States before being offered a book deal from a major publisher.

Read more about our event here.

Berkeley CWC Author Kristen Caven will be ‘opening’ for Julia with a reading from her new YA novella (about a different kind of queen), The Souls of Her Feet.

‘Hawaii’s Last Queen” Julia Flynn Siler to speak on Sunday, May 19th

April 29, 2013

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We are delighted to welcome New York Times Bestselling Author Julia Flynn Siler to our Speaker Series!Screen Shot 2013-04-26 at 9.16.38 AM

images-1Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and expanding capitalist powers. At the center of the story is Lili’uokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.

The story begins around 200 A.D., when intrepid Polynesians navigated thousands of miles across the Pacific and arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with almost no contact from the Western world. In 1778 their isolation was shattered with the arrival of Captain Cook and his men. Lost Kingdom deftly weaves together a memorable cast of characters.

Julia Flynn Siler is a prize-winning author and journalist. Grove/Atlantic published Lost Kingdom in early 2013. Her first book was The New York Times bestseller, The House of Mondavi.

As a veteran correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and Business Week, Ms. Flynn Siler spent more than two decades in Europe and the United States. A graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she also earned an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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The CWC Author Reading will be Kristen Caven presenting her new YA novella (about a different kind of queen), The Souls of Her Feet.

See You Sunday! Featuring dynamic duo Lloyd Lofthouse and Alon Shalev.

April 18, 2013

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We’re so proud to feature our very own Lloyd Lofthouse as our speaker this Sunday. Lloyd, the author of the award-winning My Splendid Concubine historical novels and much more, has years of experience in successful self-publishing. He is also a generous mentor to the club, keeping up the club’s marketing blog as a dual member of two branches.

But wait, there’s more! Alon Shalev, author of five novels (several of them published by Lloyd’s publishing house, Three Clover Press), will be our featured club author who opens for Lloyd.

Both Lloyd’s and Alon’s literary success are tied to the club, as the two of them founded our Marketing Success Group. This group meets on Sundays at 1pm before the meeting, and like all of our support/critique groups, guests are welcome to audit one meeting before joining the club.

We hope to see you Sunday for this exciting celebration of good writing and successful publishing. Lloyd’s talk is entitled, “You CAN Get Published,” and this duo is proof of that. The meeting is from 2-4:30, with plenty of time for networking with other writers, and the location is the Oakland Public Library (enter on Madison Street).

“You CAN Get Published” with Lloyd Lofthouse on April 21st

March 24, 2013

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Need help getting your writing into print? Lloyd Lofthouse, our featured speaker for the April 21 meeting, is a good person to ask for advice. A past president of CWC’s Berkeley Branch, he helped launch our marketing group and has mentored fellow writers interested in self- publishing.

Lloyd’s own self-published work has attracted recognition. His short story, “A Night at the ‘Well of Purity,’” was a finalist in the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards. That same year, his first novel, My Splendid Concubine, earned honor-able mentions in general fiction from several book festivals. Currently, he’s revising and preparing to publish Running with the Enemy, a novel based on his experience as a Marine in Vietnam.

After his military service, Lloyd earned a BA in journalism, attended the UCLA writing program for several years, completed graduate work at Cal Poly Pomona, and later earned an MFA in writing. In 1999 he married Anchee Min, who introduced him to China and to the importance of Robert Hart (1835- 1911). A British consular official who helped modernize the Middle Kingdom but hid his private life, Hart became the main character in Lloyd’s books. Lloyd is a prolific blogger on veteran’s issues, teaching, writing, and China.

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See You Sunday!

March 11, 2013

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See you this Sunday at the Oakland Public Library!  Angie Chau, author of Quiet As The Come, will be speaking about something common to all of us, The Immigrant Experience.

Chau’s work has been widely published, appearing in the Indiana Review, the Santa Clara Review, Night Train Magazine, and many other magazines and reviews. Her book has been reviewed by Sandra Cisneros, Karen Joy Fowler, and Pam Houston. Quiet As They Come has been or will be adopted for classroom curriculum at universities and high schools including UCLA, Loyola University, University of the Pacific, California College of the Arts, Chabot College, San Francisco City College, Drew School, Stevenson School, and Excel High School amongst others.

We welcome this California Writer, and hope you can join us to hear her speak.

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