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Are you ready to unleash your inner writer? Do you need some additional inspiration to get you there? Then you won't want to miss out this exciting literary opportunity!

The Writing Loft, Northern California's only creative writing school, has teamed up with Typing Around Town to educate and encourage aspiring writers throughout the month of October. Every Saturday, different authors will be featured at eacb cafe participating in Typing Around Town. Be sure not to miss out on these free lectures! This is a great way to get those creative juices flowing and start writing your stories about growing up in Chico.

Nora Profit

Nora Profit: “Writing Mistakes That Keep Writers from Getting Published”

Saturday, Oct 3
10:00 am to 12:30 pm

Beatniks in Chico
1387 East 8^th Street, Chico, CA
(530) 894-2800

With the right information, anyone can write well and get published,” says Nora Profit. She should know. She’s been writing and getting paid for what she writes for more than thirty years including being a featured author in both the Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul and Chicken Soup: Living Your Dreams. Nora is also the Executive Director of The Writing Loft, Northern California’s only creative writing school. Nora will show attendees how to move their writing from ordinary to memorable by identifying common style errors essential for mastering the magic of craft.

Rob Howard: “Pursuing the Path of a Writer: What and Who You Need To Know”

Saturday, Oct 10
10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Cal Java in Chico
216 W. East Ave Suite B, Chico, CA
(530) 894-1494

In previous lifetimes Rob Howard worked as a logger, real estate salesman, building contractor and housing inspector. In the 90’s Rob reincarnated by earning a Master’s in Counseling Psychology. In that passing form, he interned as a therapist working with children and adults while also helping conduct court-ordered groups through Butte County’s Domestic Violence program. For the last 15 years Rob—as a spirit in flux—has taught psychology at CSU, Chico and Butte Community College. Along the way Rob’s imagination cracked open. Here where character, plot, action, dialogue and word rhythm reign, Rob is carving out his first novel, Free to Murder, about a killer’s conscience fighting for its life. If you too want to serve your imagination by writing well, bring your writing pad to Rob’s interactive talk and find out who and what you need to know.

Nora Profit: “The Changing World of Publishing and How to Make it Work for You”

Saturday, Oct 17
10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Barnes & Nobles in Chico
2031 Martin Luther King Parkway, Chico, CA
(530) 894-1494

The publishing world as we know it is al most dead. Things have changed. If you want to write and get traditionally published, you can’t afford to be in the dark. Get an overall look at the evolving publishing industry and learn what you can expect when your story or book is ready to be published. If you hope to be published, you won’t want to miss this one!

Jayne Lynne: "It Takes Two: The Benefits of Writing and Marketing a Novel Together"

Saturday, Oct 24
10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Café Flo in Chico Laura and Kris
365 E. Sixth Street, Chico, CA
(530) 892-0356

Jayne Lynne is currently on tour for her acclaimed debut novel, The Pecking Order. She runs a 7-minute mile, volunteers at the shelter, and cooks gourmet meals for her underwear-model husband. And she doesn't exist. Jayne Lynne is a mere nom de plume created in the prison-like confines of the authors' law firm. The real authors are nothing like Ms. Lynne. One is a former high-strung litigator, turned high-strung in-house counsel, turned semi-voluntary/somewhat-stay-at-home mom. She doesn't run a 7-minute mile, though she does run, and occasionally cooks more than a 30-minute meal, thankful she’s home enough now to know where to find the EVOO. The other is now a lawyer in the public sector, which means she has to buy her clothes at Target, but actually gets to see her husband (not an underwear model—at least not professionally—and sons more than once a week.
Unlike Jayne Lynne, The Pecking Order is real. It’s the product of the authors' late night discussions (accompanied by cheap red wine smuggled in a baby bottle) at the office about the absurdity of the large law firm and their inability to find work-life balance there.
The authors are represented by Ann Collette of Helen Rees Literary Agency. They are working on their second novel, Done Fell Out, about an L.A. prosecutor who learns about love, death, and justice after she inherits a funeral home in North Carolina, where she defends a man accused of murdering her childhood enemy.

Check out their blog www.fictionlimbo.blogspot.com for a sneak peak at just who these authors are!

Emily Gallo (10:00 am): “Screenplays: All that I’ve Learned.”

Eddi Deromedi (11:00 am): “Creative Nonfiction: Weaving Your Life Experiences”

Saturday, Oct 31
10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Beatniks in Chico
1387 E. 8th Street, Chico, CA
(530) 894-2800

Emily Gallo

“Screenplays: All that I’ve Learned.”

Emily Gallo’s screenplay, The Columbarium, is scheduled for production in summer 2010 possibly starring William H. Macy and Diane Keaton, and rumor has it that Nora Ephron may direct. The Columbarium, a place housing people’s remains in whimsical niches, is the backdrop for peering into the eccentric lives of the dead and the living they left behind. When the Columbarium is vandalized, mourners band together to preserve the memories of their loved ones, and in the process, build new relationships with each other. Emily is now working on a television drama set in Venice Beach where a cantankerous writer named Finnegan reluctantly moves from New York to live with his daughter. Here he meets an assortment of characters who add to the carnival atmosphere of Venice’s boardwalk.Emily graduated from Clark University with a degree in English and was an elementary school teacher for many years. She spent most of her time in inner city schools in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sacramento where she founded the Multiage Department at Bowling Green, one of the first charter schools in the state. Emily retired in 2006 to focus on her own writing career and volunteers her time to teach writing to the homeless and piano to elementary school children.

Emily will share her experiences learning the craft of screenwriting, the trials of searching for representation, and what it feels like to be a part of the movie industry. If you have ever dreamed of Hollywood, you won’t want to miss this!

“Creative Nonfiction: Weaving Your Life Experiences”
Eddi has spent her entire life in school—as a student, as a teacher, as an administrator and as a mom. Her undergraduate studies in Child Development, Master’s degree in Education, as well as Administrative and Multiple Teaching Credentials, have supported a thirty-year career in teaching and administration at both the elementary and secondary grade levels.
In writing her current book, Eddi has drawn upon a wellspring of personal and professional experiences. The passion and candor she has brought to her life and work, resides in every chapter. Her story will resonate with educators, students, and anyone who has ever been in school.
Come sit, listen, and talk with Eddi about what she has learned about the process of weaving her own life experiences with stories based on the children she has met along the way. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with Eddi in what is sure to be a thoughtful and inspiring talk.

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