AN AUTHOR TRIFECTA: CRIME, BOOK REVIEWS, AND PERFORMANCE
Fran Wojnar, Myles Knapp, and Frank Thornburgh will speak to the Mount Diablo Branch of the California Writers Club at their luncheon meeting, Saturday, December 8, 2007, at the Hungry Hunter Restaurant in Lafayette.
Myles Knapp writes the monthly Grit Lit column for the Contra Costa Times and its Bay Area News Group affiliates. He’ll share “5 Proven Techniques to Get Your Book Reviewed” and “5 Rootin’ Tootin’ Ways Not to Get Your Book Reviewed in the Local Newspaper.” Myles has written advertising copy for major corporations including Select Comfort, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, and Chevron, as well as a number of high tech companies. He’ll give insider tips to writers and promises to be funny, enlightening and entertaining! Myles' profile is on page four.
Frank Thornburgh will discuss his writing life, and how it evolved into doing stories and poems in costume on stage and recording them on CD’s. His fascinating biography includes a broad range of experience, including a B.A. in physics, teaching,service in FEMA, military service, and general contracting.
Fran Wojnar, a member of the Sisters in Crime, has published two novels, Eliza and Magdalena’s Conflict. Fran will discuss the process of researching crime novels. She has an M.A. in Music, taught in the California Public Schools, then took creative writing classes and joined a weekly writing group. Her current project is a collection of nonfiction pieces, The Back Stairs Epoch.