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June 2015

June 16 Speaker

Kathleen Founds

Unleashing Your Muse Through Adventure & Experiment

Kathleen Founds’ book When Mystical Creatures Attack! is a novel-in-stories about an idealistic English teacher who has a nervous breakdown, then corresponds with her former students from an insane asylum. It is also a collection of writing experiments. Stories take the form of in-class essays, letters, therapeutic journal exercises, an advice column, a reality show television transcript, a diary, and a Methodist women’s fundraising cookbook. At our June meeting, Founds will offer suggestions for breaking through creative roadblocks through experimentation with form, and share about the process of weaving a narrative thread through a series of stories. She will also share her experience with the publication process. A graduate of Stanford and Syracuse universities, Founds teaches social justice themed English classes at Cabrillo College in Watsonville and writes while her toddler is napping. Her work has been published in The Sun, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker Online, Salon, and American Short Fiction Online. Her novel-in-stories, When Mystical Creatures Attack! won the 2014 University of Iowa Press John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was named a 2014 New York Times Notable Book.

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WHAT’S INSIDE

Announcements ............................. 5, 6 Contests and Workshops ................ 6, 9 Fourth of July Parade .......................... 6 If the Shoe Fits .................................. 10 Janet’s View ........................................ 2 Last Month’s Speaker ......................... 3 Member Profile .................................. 7 Poetry Corner ..................................... 8 Self-Publishing Advice ........................ 4

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Janet’s View

CCW President

Turning Seventy Turning seventy this year, my birthday on May 10 was a big deal to me. I had planned to celebrate with my family and some close friends at Roy’s Restaurant in Pebble Beach. But I hadn’t been feeling well for several days and, on April 28, I told my husband, “I think I have to go to the emergency room.” He came from work and met me at CHOMP, where we sat for several hours, as you often do in ER. Finally, Dr. Richard Garza examined me and declared I needed a CAT scan. From there, everything went way too fast. He studied the scan results and said, “You need surgery.” “You mean like next week?” I asked. “No, now.” I vaguely remember talking to the anesthesiologist and then waking up with part of my colon gone and a colostomy bag to deal with. On May 10, my three children and my grandson came to the hospital along with my husband who had gotten a cake and candles, and we celebrated my seventieth birthday at Community Hospital. Since April 28, every day has been a challenge. This is what I have learned so far:

I have fantastic family and friends. Some people call me every day to see how I am.

Other good friends have visited me in the hospital and brought me flowers and candles.

Some good friends have brought me food.

People are very reassuring. “You’re going to get better,” they say.

Thinking positive is the only way to be. I struggle with this, but I’m going to keep on learning to count my blessings.

Since I was turning seventy, I had to take the DMV written driver’s test again. And I passed it! I am so grateful for being able to drive. When I am actually able to get behind the wheel again, I will never complain about having to drive anyone anywhere.

Nurses at Community Hospital carry all the detail. Doctors take Humpty Dumpty apart, but the nurses put him or her back together again.

The Visiting Nurses Association is made up of equally wonderful nurses with infinite patience to teach a person what he or she needs to learn and practice over and over again.

A second surgery awaits me in September to reconnect the old parts. I’m so grateful the colostomy bag is not permanent.

These past two years being CCW President has meant so much to me. The best parts have been getting better acquainted with our wonderful members who have inspired me so much and listening to all our fantastic speakers. I also want to thank the most fabulous board a president could have. As my term comes to an end, I look forward to many more years as a member of CCW!

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Editor Demystifies Acquisition Process

by Dorothy Vriend

Imagine being curled up on the couch until the early hours of the morning, a single light shining on your e-reader, trying to decide if this is going to be the next book you pitch to your team. That’s what it was like to be an acquisition editor at a major publishing house, Heather Lazare told a full house assembled at Point Pinos Grill in May. When she worked for Random House then Simon and Schuster, she received about ten to twenty manuscripts each week. She pitched roughly thirty percent of the manuscripts to her team, and ultimately acquired about two percent of the manuscripts received, she said. In her presentation to Central Coast Writers she did unveiled the mystery surrounding the acquisition process, laying it out step by step. First an agent pitches a book—usually to several editors at once. The editor reads the book and if she’s excited about it, she gets the book out to her publicity director, marketing manager, associate director, publisher and others on her team. She comes up with comparison titles. She writes a profit and loss statement, showing how many books will be printed in hardcover and paperback, how many e-books will sell. The profit and loss statement is a projection, but not necessarily the kind a business major would put forward. “It’s total smoke and mirrors, a totally unscientific process, but this is how they do it,” Lazare said. Around this time, the editor has a conversation with the author to make sure the author will be amenable to suggested edits, and to figure out whether it will be a good relationship. On the morning of the auction, the editor writes a “passion letter” to the agent, outlining why she wants the book. In the same email she makes an offer. A possible scenario: the agent informs her there’s a higher offer. The editor runs to her publisher—who is in a meeting and hard to reach—and asks for more money. In the end she either acquires the book—or loses it to another editor. For fiction and memoir, an author has to submit a full manuscript along with a bio, Lazare said. But she also described what a non-fiction book proposal looks like. It can be 20 to 50 pages long, and should outline the content, chapter by chapter. It should include two sample chapters, comparison titles, and a brag page outlining the author’s credentials. Asked about the health of the traditional publishing industry as book stores become scarce, Lazare offered this: “I do think the big stores will be in the biggest world of hurt.” She said the smaller more specialized book stores that are tuned in to their community have a better chance of surviving. Heather Lazare is an editorial and publishing consultant living in Pacific Grove; she can be reached at hello@heatherlazare.com.

May five-minute reader Sharon Law Tucker May guest speaker Heather Lazare

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To market, to market: Better late than never

By Kristina Baer

In the early stages of producing my novel, Minerva’s Fox, I had a half-hour conversation with a marketing person at Hillcrest Media, my publisher. I’d been looking forward to our chat, certain he would offer many valuable suggestions I would use—eventually. There I sat, pen at the ready, prepared to listen and take notes. After he introduced himself, he asked me to describe my marketing plan. Dumbfounded, I told him I didn’t have one—yet. He cleared his throat. “You might want to, um, think about that. Soon.” Talk about misplaced expectations. Of course it’s important to think about a sales and marketing plan before your book comes out. But if you don’t have the time or the bandwidth to nail down the details ahead of time, don’t throw in the towel. Instead, consider the following steps you can take just before and just after your title releases: 1. Get thyself a domain name. GoDaddy.com is one among many resources for this and other web-related information. 2. Tweet well; tweet often. Once Minerva’s Fox was out, I began to tweet 140-character snippets from it, as well as dates and places for my reading, talk, and book group invitations. Also, I post related photos with captions, separately. 3. Visible web information. Once your website goes live—but only after the book has been released—sign every email, even the ones to family and friends, with your web coordinates. 4. Word-of-mouth. Make a list of people to whom you will give a book—all those named in your acknowledgments, for instance. 5. Advance Mailing. Send out postcards announcing your book release to friends, family members, and acquaintances. Follow up with an email. The front of my postcard featured the cover of Minerva’s Fox; the back, a brief synopsis of the book, all online information, and the release date. 6. Blog it. Start your blog with FAQ’s about how and why you wrote your book. I update my Minerva’s Fox website and blog regularly. Try to talk about a variety of topics related to your book—themes, character and/or plot development, etc. 7. Talk it up. Mention your book whenever you can. Share your excitement about it. In May, I gave three book-related-talks: at a bookshop in Hardwick, Vermont; at an assisted living facility in Hanover, New Hampshire; and at The Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island. People you tell about the book will help you get the word out. 8. Double your money. I printed enough postcards announcing the talks and readings to have extras to hand out. They double as a marketing message for the book and a bookmark. 9. Take advantage of local resources. Sign up for the Bookshop Santa Cruz local authors’ consignment program. There is information at the Bookshop Santa Cruz website about how the five-month program works. Most of all: Share your enthusiasm about your book freely and often. Your excitement is your best marketing tool. Kristina Baer, author Minerva’s Fox http://www.amazon.com/author/ebaerk http://www.kristinabaer.net Follow me on Twitter @ebaerk

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Membership News Welcome to our new CCW members:

Carlin Jardine

Thomas Vincent Nowaczyk

Stacey Sarenity

Debra J. Smith

2015-2016 Membership Renewal

It’s time to renew your membership in Central Coast Writers! -from Christine Sleeter, Membership Chair

June is CCW membership renewal month. For only $45.00, you can continue to enjoy our wonderful monthly speakers series in the beautiful Point Pinos Grill and our summer and fall parties, receive your monthly copy of Scribbles, and attend next year’s workshops at the member rate. You’ll soon receive a renewal letter via snail mail. You then have several options for how to renew. You can snail mail a check for $45.00 in the return envelope that will come with the renewal letter; you can renew at the June meeting at Point Pinos Grill; or you can renew online from our website at: http://centralcoastwriters.org/ccw/membership-information/joinccw.htm .

Want to Get More Involved in CCW? Scribbles is in need of a writer for the Contests and Workshops column and also a proofreader. For more information, contact Leslie Patiño at lnpatino@comcast.net .

California Writers Club Annual Summer Picnic. . . . . .will take place Saturday, July 25, 2015, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Fire Circle Picnic Area at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland. All CWC members and their guests are invited. For more information contact Nancy Curteman at (510) 657-0608 or our CCW’s very own Joyce Krieg at pacificgrovejoyce@gmail.com.

Networking Aloud Next meeting: June 9, Featured reader: Diana Paul, author of Things Unsaid

This free event open to the public takes place the second Tuesday of each month, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Old Capitol Books, 559 Tyler Street, Monterey. Come early and sign up to read for five to seven minutes from any genre, followed by a fifteen to twenty minute featured reading from a local published writer. Contact CCW member Pat Hanson for more information at phanson@csumb.edu or (831) 601-9195.

Calling All Memoir Writers! Pacific Grove’s weekly newspaper, Cedar Street Times, is looking for true life stories, 500-750 words, for the “Keepers of Our Culture” column. Author gets blurb, including link to website, blog or Amazon sales page. Submit as Word.doc by 15th of each month to pacificgrovejoyce@gmail.com (Editor for Park Place Publications)

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Loads of Fun on the Fourth

-from Leslie Patiño, Scribbles editor

Want to start your 4th of July off with a little exercise and a lot of fun? Come march with CCW in Monterey’s 4th of July parade! An added bonus is that you help promote CCW. In case you missed Phil Bowhay’s column in the May 25th Herald, it began: You may have noticed in the Good Old Days parade a sign by the Central Coast Writers Club, “Start with a blank page and a dirty mind!” Sounds like good advice, what we writers call a “prompt.” At the moment, I have both, but not sure how to proceed. The route runs down Alvarado Street, up Franklin to Calle Principal and back to Hartnell. It’s roughly six city blocks and mostly flat. You get to carry the sign of your choice and wave to the admiring crowds. (Signs include “Careful or I’ll put you in my novel,” “I can’t keep calm and carry on. I’m a writer,” etc.) Your friends and family will excitedly point you out to bystanders as if you’re a famous person. Strangers will flash you and your sign a thumbs up. It’s all loads of good fun. To sign up, email Joyce Krieg at pacificgrovejoyce@gmail.com. On July 4th put on your CCW t-shirt or something red, white and blue. We don’t have an exact time yet, but we’ll report to the parking area behind the Hartnell Professional Center (the old hospital, across from the post office) at 576 Hartnell Street. All the parade participants will line up there. Look for the group wearing CCW t-shirts and claim your place among us. We’ll be finished by 10:30 for you to join the festivities at Colton Hall or catch a shuttle ride back up to the Patiño’s house and your car. If you don’t want to deal with finding parking, you can leave your car at Leslie Patiño’s house (903 Jefferson St.), less than a half mile up the hill from Colton Hall. Leslie’s husband will provide taxi service down the hill and back up after the parade. Alternately, you can walk from and/or to the Patiño house.

Upcoming Contests and Conferences -from Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, PR Chair, California Writers Club

1. Golden Quill Awards, entries accepted April 1 – July 15, 2015. This is in association with the Central Coast Writers

Conference. This year’s theme is “transformation” and there are three categories: Short fiction/prose, Poetry, Flash Fiction. There are cash prizes and entries. www.thegoldenquillawards.com.

2. The 2015 Sledgehammer 36-Hour Writing Contest, now in its eight year, incorporates a scavenger hunt, four

writing prompts, a 36-hour deadline, the option to write as a team or solo, and more than $1,000 in cash prizes. Writers of all ages can participate individually or as teams and from anywhere in the world. This year's contest will take place July 25–26. www.sledgehammercontest.com.

3. California Historical Society Book Award call for manuscript – carries a $5,000 advance and publication by Heyday

Books/ co-published by California Historical Society. https://heydaybooks.com/chsbookaward/.

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Member Profile By Michelle Smith

Find Your Calling David Spiselman

If you fancy stories replete with intrigue and espionage, then CCW member David Spiselman is your author. David, who worked as a covert operative for an intelligence service in Washington, D.C., writes under the pen name of DS Kane and has written a series of techno-thrillers titled “Spies Lie” comprised of four books (Bloodridge, DeathByte, Swiftshadow and GrayNet) “peopled with spies, hackers, mercenaries and politicians.” “When I worked for the government, most of my work product was nearly fiction,” David says. “After all ‘spies lie!’ By the time I quit working, I was a well-trained fiction writer—thanks to our government.” It’s been more than fifteen years since David’s first piece of fiction, a short story, was published, but his very first publication more than thirty years ago was a nonfiction article about finance. After earning a master’s in psychology and an M.B.A. in global finance and economics along with certifications in computer science and finance, David taught postgraduate finance where frequent publication was a job requirement. He wrote about subjects ranging from cybercrime to econometric forecasting, and he’s been published nearly a dozen times in financial textbooks and journals. He even wrote a children’s book, A Teenager’s Guide to Money, Banking and Finance, published by Simon & Schuster. David enjoys writing both fiction and nonfiction and pursues his passion at a frenetic pace. At any given time, he has three manuscripts in the works, “one in draft, one in critique and one in production,” he explains. “I try to complete a draft within six months, and from there it goes into critique for several months. Then the manuscript goes to my copyeditor and my cover designer, and that takes a month.” David, who’s been writing fiction for more than fifty years, advises writers hoping to sell books to participate in author events, exploit social media and arm themselves with a platform. David’s platform is that of computer security expert and “understanding the mindset of spies,” and he posts commentaries at a variety of venues whenever he comes across subjects that fuel his indignation. “These days, I’m outraged almost every day,” he says. For writers who question whether fiction is their calling, David offers the following guidance: “All fiction writers are a little crazy with all those voices screaming inside us, ‘Write my story!’” he says. “If your dreams at night involve the characters in your stories, if they criticize what you’ve written about them in your nightmares, then writing fiction is your calling.” The fifth book in the “Spies Lie” series, Baksheesh, will be released in late June, and the sixth is a work in progress. David’s website can be found at http://dskane.com.

Michelle Smith’s articles have been published in a variety of magazines. Her website is http://theebonyquill.com.

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The Poetry Corner By Nancy Jacobs

Phillip Levine: The Working Class Poet 1928-2015

Fellow poet and critic Richard Hugo predicted that Phillip Levine, who died on February 14, 2015, was destined to become one of the most celebrated poets of our time. Levine experienced many things in his life including discrimination against anyone of Jewish heritage. He married twice, first to Patty Kanterman from 1951 until 1953 when he met Francis J. Artley, an actress. He divorced Patty to marry Francis. They remained married until his death. His education included a B.A. degree from Wayne State University in 1950 where he took classes with Robert Lowell and John Berryman. He earned an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and later won a Jones Fellowship at Stanford University. He took a position teaching at California State University Fresno where he taught until 1992. His poems frequently reflected his concern with what the working class people of Detroit suffered just to survive and the drudgery of the assembly lines, which he believed broke the body and scarred the spirit. He strongly believed that the working-class poor had no voice, and he was going to be their voice. Levine's poetry is understandable by ordinary people. He valued reality in down-to-earth, simple narratives. In an interview published in Parnassus magazine, Levine defined his ideal poem as one in which "no words are noticed. You look through them into a vision of...the people, the place." He received numerous awards including his first National Book Award for Poetry in 1980 for Ashes: New and Old. He received a second National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is. In 1995 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Simple Truth. In 2011 he was named U.S. Poet Laureate.

An Abandoned Factory, Detroit By Phillip Levine

The gates are chained, the barbed-wire fencing stands, An iron authority against the snow, And this grey monument to common sense Resists the weather. Fears of idle hands, Of protest, men in league, and of the slow Corrosion of their minds, still charge this fence. Beyond, through broken windows one can see Where the great presses paused between their strokes And thus remain, in air suspended, caught In the sure margin of eternity. The cast-iron wheels have stopped; one counts the spokes Which movement blurred, the struts inertia fought, And estimates the loss of human power, Experienced and slow, the loss of years, The gradual decay of dignity. Men lived within these foundries, hour by hour; Nothing they forged outlived the rusted gears Which might have served to grind their eulogy.

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Contests And Conferences By Diana Paul

Best of luck! Be sure to share your contest experiences with Scribbles.

CONTESTS December Magazine—Curt Johnson Prose Awards Deadline: June 15, 2015 Entry Fee: $20 Website: http://www.decembermag.org E-mail address: decembermagazine@gmail.com Two prizes of $1,500 each and publication in December will be given annually for a short story and an essay. Joyce Carol Oates will judge in fiction, and Albert Goldbarth will judge in nonfiction. Submit a story or essay of up to 8,000 words. All entries will be considered for publication in December. New American Press—Fiction Prize Deadline: June 15, 2015 Entry Fee: $22 Website: http://www.newamericanpress.com E-mail address: david@newamericanpress.com A prize of $1,000 and publication by New American Press is given annually for a book of fiction. Larry Watson will judge. Using the online submission system, submit a collection of short stories or flash fiction, a novella, or a novel between 100 and 500 pages with a $22.50 entry fee by June 15. Barrow Street Press Book Prize Deadline: June 30, 2015 Entry Fee: $25 Website: http://www.barrowstreet.org E-mail address: infobarrow@gmail.com A prize of $1,000 and publication is given annually for a poetry collection. Richard Blanco will judge. Submit a manuscript of 50 to 80 pages with a $25 entry fee ($28 for electronic submissions). Send an SASE, e-mail, or visit the website for complete guidelines.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Catamaran Writing Conference Location: Pebble Beach, California (Robert Louis Stevenson School) Date: August 12-16, 2015 Deadline: July 12, 2015 Website: catamaranliteraryreader.com/conference-2015 The conference offers workshops, craft lectures, daily excursions, and publishing panels for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets Ellen Bass and Toi Derricotte; fiction writers Scott Hutchins, Elizabeth McKenzie, and John Straley; and nonfiction writers Robin Hemley, Frances Lefkowitz, and Dan White. The keynote speaker is fiction writer Karen Joy Fowler. The cost of the conference, which includes tuition, most meals, and lodging, is $1,250. Submit 5 poems totaling no more than 10 pages, or up to 20 pages of prose by July 12.

(See Paul on page 11)

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If the Shoes Fits… By Jonathan Shoemaker

Common Interests

Abraham Lincoln said, “God must love the common man; he made so many of them.”

This makes me think of Milwaukee, where a great variety of people lived in fairly distinct ethnic clusters. We lived in neighborhoods that resembled small towns with corner grocery stores, barbershops, a restaurant and a couple of taverns. We chose to live near people with whom we had something in common. People helped each other and looked after the neighborhood children. There, in the big city, we lived in a small town atmosphere. We were the “common people” who shared similar values and aspirations.

There were areas of town that successful individuals chose to live where wealth, rather than ethnicity, was a deciding factor. They were professional or business people: the well-educated; a cut above the rest. That’s where you could find the mansions of those who owned the slums in the industrial area.

The very well-off and the impoverished were a small minority in our city. The rest of us, the common folk, got along as best we could; some comfortably, and others from paycheck to paycheck.

My black friends told me that Segregation really didn’t exist in Milwaukee, but most of them attended North High School. Pulaski High was largely attended by East-Europeans who lived on “Kosciusko Hill.” Our family lived on “Sauerkraut Hill” with Scandinavians as well as Germans. “Little Italy” spread out on the other side of Oklahoma Avenue. The Irish lived beyond them, with the Hispanic section on the other side of the Kinnickinnic River.

A dozen years ago, following this tendency to associate with people of common interests and aspirations, a small group of us on the multicultural Monterey Peninsula chose to form a writers’ community. Writers from different areas of the Peninsula sat down together to establish the Central Coast Writers chapter of the California Writers Club.

As is true in neighborhoods and small towns, word gradually got out that something new was afoot. Friends and family came to our meetings. Then, writers from Pacific Grove, Seaside, Big Sur and as far away as Aptos came to find out what was happening downstairs from the Thunderbird Bookstore in Carmel. To raise cash, we brought books from our own shelves to display on a back table for other members to buy for a pittance. We pitched in our individual talents to discuss various genres and produced a newsletter to share ideas and upcoming events of interest. Local writers were happy to speak at our meetings (and maybe sell some of their work).

Our literary neighborhood grew gradually as folks moved in or had to leave. Today, we are 131 strong. Many meet once a month at Pt. Pinos, and some of us continue to gather in small groups to talk and share our common interests, and our whole “community” celebrates the success of individuals who are moving into the big world of literary notoriety.

We have truly been blessed. And I cherish this.

Be well, and do good work. Jonathan

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4. Central Coast Writer’s Conference – dinner, multiple-creators panel, nine tracks, 55 workshops, booths, Sept 18-20, http://cuesta.edu/communityprograms/writers-conference/.

5. Central Coast Book and Author’s Fair, Pismo

Beach, September 20, public admission free, www.CentralCoastBookAndAuthorFair.blogspot.com.

6. The 13th Oregon Coast Children’s Book Writers

Workshop “right beside the ocean, overlooking giant rocks where sea lions lounge and snort. Eagles soar overhead. Whales spout.” Instructors are authors, editors from major houses, and an agent. www.occbww.com.

7. “Publishing 101: The Publishers Weekly Introduction to Publishing & Self-Publishing” by Rachel Deal. An original e-book selling for $1.99 from www.PublishersWeekly.com/Pub101.

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Paul, continued from page 9 Your Soul’s Memoir: A Writing Workshop Location: Sequoia National Forest, King’s Canyon Park, California Date: July 8-12, 2015 Deadline: No deadline given Website: http://farhorizons.org/2015-programs/souls-memoir-writing-workshop/ Breathe new life into personal memories, stimulate spiritual growth and uncover profound realizations about the meaning of your life. Instructor Nan Henderson has written an award-winning book, Memoirs of the Soul, and travels nationally to lead workshops focused on “Writing to Explore Your Spiritual Journey.” Fee is $100. Meals and lodging options range from $35-$150 per night.

CCW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President ................................................. Janet Tezak Vice President ................................... Laurie Sheehan Secretary ................................................... Cheri Love Interim Treasurer ..................................Clarissa Conn Programs Chair .................................. Dorothy Vriend Workshops .............................................. Janet Tezak Membership .................................... Christine Sleeter Publicity ............................................. Laurie Sheehan Hospitality ........................................... Judi Marquart Newsletter .............................................. Leslie Patiño Webmaster ................................................. Ken Jones Assistant Webmaster ............... Kemberlee Shortland Central Board Representative .................. Joyce Krieg

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Leslie Patiño ..................................................... Editor Nancy Jacobs ........................................Poetry Corner Diana Paul .......................... Contests and Workshops C. Jonathan Shoemaker ..................... If the Shoe Fits Michelle Smith ................................ Member Profiles Dorothy Vriend ................................Monthly Speaker

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June 16 Kathleen Founds

5:30 p.m. - DINNER 6:30 p.m. - MEETING

Point Pinos Grill 79 Asilomar Boulevard

Pacific Grove