Thanks to Norma Watkins, Ginny Rorby & Maureen Eppstein of the Mixed Pickles for the 
overwhealming success of the Writers Helping Writers event on July 18th.
We greatly appreciate the Mendocino Hotel providing the Garden Room.

August 15th  6:00 p.m.  
Mendocino Hotel - Garden Room

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Shirin Yim Bridges
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Jody Gehrman

The Market for
Young Adult and
Children's Literature

Y/A outsells every other genre of fiction--and is the fastest growing segment of publishing. We're honored to host two authors with considerable experience with these audiences. They will share insights about how to  write for the Y/A and Children segments, and how to market.

Jody Gehrman is the author of seven novels and numerous plays. Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft is her newest YA novel, available July 18th, 2012. Babe in Boyland was published in 2011 by Penguin's Dial books and has recently been optioned by Disney. She also writes stage plays, screenplays, and sometimes even songs. Her plays have been produced in Ashland, New York, San Francisco and L.A. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, "Jake Savage, Jungle P.I." She's a professor of English at Mendocino college.
Her website: www.jodygehrman.com/



Shirin Yim Bridges is the author of Ruby's Wish, one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2002 and winner of the 2003 Ezra Jack Keats award; The Umbrella Queen, named one of the Best Children's Books of 2008 by TIME magazine; the forthcoming Mary Wrightly So Politely; and The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Real Princesses. All her books are about girls who manage to exert themselves and do the unexpected.

September 19th  6:00 p.m.  
Mendocino Hotel - Garden Room

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Josh Weil

The Structure of Fiction
with Josh Weil


Josh Weil is the author of The New Valley, a New York Times Editors Choice that won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation.  

A recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, he has taught at New York University, Brooklyn College, as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University, and was the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. 

His new novel, The Great Glass Sea, will be published in late 2013. 


Visit his website at JoshWeil.com.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NPR held a contest to choose the top 100 books for teens. There were 75,000 votes. Four of our own Ginny Rorby's books were among the 235 finalists.  
Go to this link at npr.org to see the winners.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING
TO WMC’S FIRST ANTHOLOGY:
WRITERS OF THE MENDOCINO COAST: AT THE EDGE
Welcome to the Mendocino Coast branch of the California Writers Club founded in 1909. We are proud to share in this legacy.
The Writers of the Mendocino Coast meet in the Mendocino Hotel at 6:00 pm on the third Wednesday of every month. We host speakers, workshops, open mics and other yet to be discovered events and other activities.
Our intention is to expand the network and opportunities for writers here on the Mendocino Coast. We hope you'll join us. 

For Members - WRITERS GROUP CLEARING HOUSE

     The California Writers Club fosters professionalism in writing and promotes networking of writers with the writing community. All genres and writing styles are supported. In order to provide an environment where members can obtain critique of their efforts, a clearing house has been established.
     Please send a description of your writing experience and genre, the frequency of meeting you would like, and other information you consider pertinent. We will connect you with other members.
[email protected] 

Member count: 62

On August 6th

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MEMBERS
When your writing is published or receives a nomination or award, please send a short announcement to 
writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com 
and we'll include it in the newsletter and website.