Published Members
Members of the California Writers Club, Berkeley Branch who are published writers, authors, poets and qualified bloggers are listed here with links to their work.
Members, please check this page regularly and send updates to berkeley.cwc@gmail.com with “Member Page” in the subject line. Members may request a posting be added via the form at http://tinyurl.com/cwcbb-published-author.
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth
Matilda’s Song • Out of the Dark
“The author’s attention to detail and dialogue make this a book I would highly recommend.”—Affair de Coeur Review Magazine
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Beth Barany
The Writer’s Adventure Guide: 12 Stage to Writing Your Book • Overcome Writer’s Block: 10 Writing Sparks to Ignite Your Creativity
• Henrietta The Dragon Slayer (Five Kingdoms #1)
“…very satisfying to read about a girl heroine fighting the good fight.” —Amazon Review
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Adelia (Dee) Barber
Many Lessons (order copies for $20 from 4945 Hidden Dune Ct. San Diego, CA 92130)
The first refrigerator…the first car…life on the farm and struggles of the country
through the 20th century through the eyes of a teacher who helped shape the times.
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Lucille Bellucci
The Year of the Rat • Journey From Shanghai • Stone of Heaven • The Snake Woman of Ipanema • A Rare Passion (ebook); story collections Pastiche: Stories and Such, Farrago: More Stories.
My short stories and essays have won eight first-place awards.
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Gurnam S S Brard
East of Indus
“Dr. Brard is a masterful raconteur and very knowledgeable about the social, cultural, religious and political factors affecting life in India.”—from book review by Dr. R. Cardin, Newport Beach, CA
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Evangeline Canonizado Buell
Twenty Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride: Growing Up in a Filipino Immigrant Family • Filipinos in the East Bay (Arcadia Publishing)
“Vangie Buell writes enticingly and vivaciously about her richly textured life.”—Al Young, California Poet Laureate
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Thomas Burchfield
Dragon’s Ark: A Tale of the Supernatural • Whackers: An original Screenplay • The Uglies: A Crime Saga
“Dragon’s Ark” won three awards for horror fiction in 2012, including an IPPY award. My webpage received 55,000 visitors in 2012.
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Kristen (Baumgardner) Caven
Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career • The Reason She Left and Other Stories • Sammy Sperm’s Guide to Safe Sex • On the Wings of Self-Esteem (with Dr. Louise Hart) • The Souls of Her Feet – book & musical • Wandering Pie – blog
“”Kristen Caven brings the disciplined imagination of a thousand ballerinas and the incisive wit of a Gary Larson to her graphic essays on life, love, education, and the real meaning of everything.” —Libby Comeaux
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Alysa Chadow
Portrait of a Traveler in TWO PLUS FOUR EQUALS ONE: Celebrating the Relationship Between People With Disabilities and Their Service Animals • A Particular Dog in Norway (poem) in KALEIDOSCOPE Magazine, Summer/Fall 2011
I’m a poet and a storyteller who’s always on the move for a new way to say things about things dog and disability.
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Deborah Susan Frisch
A Mango for the Teacher: Running the Beach and Running a School in Cancún’s Early Days
““A Mango” is a delicious dish…a memoir of dreams, hopes and learning….” Rene Colato Lainez, prizewinning author of “Playing Lotería”
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Irv Hamilton
A 20-Minute War, a Cold War novel
Experience includes a long list of non-fiction assignments: articles, white papers, speeches, and cookbooks.
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Francine Thomas Howard
Page from a Tennessee Journal • Paris Noire • The Sisterhood Hyphen
Page from a Tennessee Journal: ʺRemarkable…as suspenseful as it is rich in detail.ʺ USA Today
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Vicki Hudson
Chow • No Red Pen: Writers, Writing Groups & Critique • How to Give Good Feedback
Every experience is personal and individual yet, also global and collective. That is what my writing is about.
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Kymberlie Ingalls
Neuroticy.com (opinion) • KymberlieIngalls.com (memoir) • BayAreaStories.com (news source) • facebook.com/WriterOfTheStorm
A pioneer in blogging, having self-published online since 1997. Works include personal essay, prose, short fictional stories, and a memoir in progress. Beware of the occasional falling opinions.
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Dodie Katague
Cloyne Court, a novel
“There is something about those [college] years which keeps a hold on us for the rest of our adult lives…something which the writer has caught very well.” —Sgt Mom, Amazon Book Review
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Jeffrey Kingman
Moto Girl, a novel
Moto Girl is a tense family drama about a 12-year-old girl learning to ride motocross.
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April Kutger
“The Gift of the Magi,” a short story published by Harlequin in A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree, edited by Jennifer Bayse Sander • The Silence of Sorrowful Hours, a Civil War novel
“…an epic tale that grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go.”—Ben Watkins, screenwriter/producer
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Lloyd Lofthouse
My Splendid Concubine (with Anchee Min) • sequel, Our Hart, Elegy for a Concubine • The Concubine Saga • iLook China blog
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Judith L. Newton
The Joys of Cooking-A Love Story • From Panthers to Promise Keepers: Rethinking the Men’s Movement • Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique • Women Power, & Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction 1778-1860 • Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class, and Race in Literature and Culture. Edited with Deborah Rosenfeld • Sex and Class in Women’s History. Edited with Mary P. Ryan and Judith R. Walkowitz
Six chapters of my memoir have won prizes with womensmemoirs.com. … [and through] her personal story, Newton manages to weave in the entire course of the culture, a reflection of her skills as an historian and an accomplished writer as well as a born storyteller.” – Jeanette Ferrary
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Colleen Rae
Mohave Mambo • Chihuahua Enchilada • Shiloh Speaks • A Therapy Dog’s Memoir of Unconditional Love
All books are on Colleen’s website with descriptions.
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Bill Roller
Author of four books in psychology, one novel, two bilingual children’s books (Spanish and English) and producer of videos about group process and human rights. A regional writer, he writes stage plays about the people of the southern mid-west and his native Illinois.
The Promise of Group Psychotherapy (Blog)
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Alon Shalev
The Accidental Activist • A Gardener’s Tale • Unwanted Heroes • At The Walls Of Galbrieth
Blogs: Left Coast Voices • Elfwriter
“A beautiful and elegiac evocation of a timeless Britain and of a man of the ancient ways of the earth who brings peace and healing where the flames of persecution once burned.” — Vivianne Crowley, Best selling author about A Gardener’s Tale
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David Simmons
“Eachdraidh – Culloden Field” “Where History Lives in Song”
Author, Entertainer, Singer, Songwriter.
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Elizabeth Wagele
The Enneagram Made Easy • Are You My Type, Am I Yours? • The Enneagram of Parenting • The Happy Introvert • Finding the Birthday Cake • The Career Within You • The Beethoven Enneagram (CD) • The Enneagram of Death – Helpful insights by the 9 types of people on grief, fear, and dying published by the International Enneagram Association • Blog #1 (Psychology Today blog) Blog #2 (Enneagram…Exploring Your True Self)
Most of my books are published by HarperCollins publishers on the Enneagram personality system. Reviews can be found on my web site under the titles of my books.
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Dirk Wales
“A Lucky Dog • Further Adventures of A Lucky Dog • Penny House • Jack London’s Dog • Twice a Hero • two books of Numbers (photographs of numbers with text) • (from Sourcebooks, Inc.) The Secret Heart of Numbers.
“I don’t know what it is about DOGS, but all the books seem to be about them. And, I have a white cat at home.)”
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James D. Wiseman
Tales from a Wise Man
The author, born and raised in London before and during World War II, offers Short Stories, some drawn from his experiences living and working in seven countries.
