Board of Directors
Roger Lubeck,
President
Sandy Baker,
Immediate Past President
Robbi Sommers Bryant,
Vice President
Marilyn Lanier,
Vice President
Malena Eljumaily,
Treasurer
Adele Layton,
Secretary
Judy M. Baker
, Membership Chair
Joelle Burnette
, Website Editor
Pamela Heck,
Conference Volunteers
Linda L. Reid
, Speaker Chair
Jeane Slone,
Author Launch
Chairs, Directors, & Editors
Elspeth Benton
, Registration Team
Les Bernstein
, Anthology Poetry Editor
Robbi Sommers Bryant,
Anthology Editor
Skye Blaine
, Newsletter Poetry Editor
Fran Claggett
, Anthology Poetry Editor
Pamela Fender
, Hot Summer Nights
Sher Gamard
, Salon
Marie Judson
, Critique Groups
Jeanne Jusaitis
, Author Support
Susan Littlefield
, Historican
Margarite Olmos,
PR Internal
Linda L. Reid
, Writers Circle
Deborah Taylor-French
, Author Support
Deborah Walton,
PR Director/ Newsletter Editor
Natasha Yim
, Contest Chair
Redwood Writers Meetings
are held the second Sunday of the month at the
2777 Fourth Street,
Santa Rosa
Board meetings take place before the general meeting, beginning at 12:30. You are welcome to join us at any time.
THIS MONTH'S MEETING
SUNDAY, JULY 8
2:00-4:30 pm
AUTHOR LAUNCH!
Arrive at 2 p.m. to register and network before the general meeting, which runs from 2:30-4:30 p.m.
We ask for a small fee of $5 from members and $10 from non-members to cover costs.
NEXT MONTH'S MEETING
Sunday, August 12
2–4:30 p.m.
Writing Editing Marketing —
It's All One Process
with M.M. Allen
SEE FLYER AT END OF NEWSLETTER.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Hot Summer Nights at Copperfield’s Books:
Wednesday evenings July 10, 17, 24, 31
(click here for details)
Writers Circle:
Saturday, July 21, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.,
Location: TBA
2nd Annual
"BOOK IT” TO THE FAIR
, Aug. 2 – 12
10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sonoma County Fair
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STATE OF THE CLUB
Submitted by Roger Lubeck
On July 1, the new elected Board of Directors for the Redwood Branch will begin planning for the next fiscal year, 2018-2019.
Overall, our club is healthy and growing. Financially, we have a positive bank balance and we budget to earn a little money most months and to break-even annually. This year our monthly income after paying our dues to CWC was about $3,000 and we spent a little over $3,100 a month on meetings, speaker fees, contests, our biennial conference, academies, workshops, salons, writers circle, member orientation meetings, publications, food for meetings, publicity and flyers, website, member surveys, and normal non-profit business incidentals. Keeping our income and expenses in balance while seeking new and better ways to deliver on our mission of "writers helping writers" is the ongoing focus of the board.
This past fiscal year we had a number of exciting accomplishments. Our membership grew from 277 members in July 2017 to 350 members in June 2018. We published three collections:
Sonoma: Stories of a Region and Its People
,
No Contest: A Decade of Contest-Winning Stories from Redwood Writers
, and our newest poetry collection,
Phoenix: Out of Silence … and then
.
As for special events our members spent 11 days promoting the club and selling their books at the Sonoma County Fair. In July our authors read excerpts from new works at our annual Author Launch and Hot Summer Nights at Copperfield’s Books. In addition, we provided a monthly newsletter, a day-long Writers Conference, three Academy workshops, two anthology workshops, three contest-related workshops, and three writing contests -- all open to the public. In addition we had noted professionals speak at our monthly meetings. These events are not inexpensive or easy to produce, and they would not have happened without several
ad hoc
planning committees, member participation, and the work of a long list of member volunteers.
What more can we do for you? Let us know! We are holding a board retreat in August to begin planning for next year and we would love to hear your ideas.
Please send me a note
or speak to me at a meeting. As a reminder, our board meets from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. just before our monthly meetings. Members are always welcome to sit in on a board meeting.
Board Agenda for July 8, 2018
12:30 p.m. Call to Order – Roger Lubeck
• Approval of minutes from prior meeting.
12:35 p.m. Board Reports
• Treasurer’s Report: Malena Eljumaily
• Membership Report: Judy Baker
12:50 p.m. Committee Reports
• Sonoma Fair: Sandy Baker
• Prose Anthology: Robbi Sommers Bryant
• Website: Joelle Burnette
1:30 p.m. Old business
• Board Retreat: Roger Lubeck
• Poetry Anthology 2019: Linda Reid
1:45 Announcements/Misc.
2:00 p.m. Adjourn
Monthly Meeting Agenda for July 8, 2018
2:00 p.m. Welcome - Roger Lubeck
2:05 p.m. Board of Directors - Roger Lubeck
2:10 p.m. Chair Announcements
Membership Judy Baker
Sonoma Fair Sandy Baker
Writers Circle Linda Reid
Other chairs
Member Announcements (no member
announcement this month)
2:15 p.m. Break ~ Snacks, Networking & Book Sales
2:30 p.m. Author Launch - readings by first 10 authors
3:20 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Author Launch - readings by last 10 authors
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
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Sunday, July 8, 2018
2 - 4:30 p.m.
Flamingo Hotel, Empire Room
Listen to excerpts from new books published by our members since last July.
eet local authors and pick up signed copies of their books.
Join us for this FREE EVENT as we celebrate our club's many talented writers.
CLICK HERE
to go to our website to see which authors are set to launch,
or see the flyer below.
Invite your friends as this is a FREE event for the public too!
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Everyone's invited to
Hot
Summer Nights!
Redwood Writers authors
will read from their books
and answer questions.
AUTHOR READINGS
4 Tuesdays in July
7-8 PM
Copperfield's Books in
Montgomery Village
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JULY 10 Fiction and Mystery
JULY 17 Historical Fiction/ Creative Non-Fiction/Fiction
JULY 24 Fiction
JULY 31 Memoir/Poetry/Fiction
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This annual program is presented as a community collaboration between
Redwood Writers and Copperfield’s Books.
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SALUTING WRITERS AT THE SONOMA COUNTY FAIR!
AUGUST 2-12
In partnership with the Sonoma County Fair, Redwood Writers members have the exclusive opportunity to read from their works and
sell their books
at this year's county fair August 2-12! This is a great honor for Redwood Writers and a great opportunity for members to connect with thousands of fair-goers from near and far.
Once again, Redwood Writers will have a booth
all 11 days of the Sonoma County Fair!
This is an opportunity for
RW MEMBERS ONLY!
Participating in the Fair is a HUGE benefit to both Redwood Writers and members.
We make friends and develop contacts. We get lots of exposure!
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Saturday,
July 21
10-1 p.m.
at the home of Linda and Harry Reid in Penngrove
Redwood Writers Circle meets in private homes every other month (on opposite months from the Redwood Salon).
How to sign up:
Members who would like to attend should send an RSVP email to Linda Reid at
rwcircle@redwoodwriters.org
. Upon confirmation, you will receive directions to the location.
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TINA DEASON
by Heather McConnell
The first thing you should know about Tina is that she is a true goddess. How do I make sense of this? I wondered how I was going to write this article and how it would leave me.
Tina Deason is as real as it gets with her
Everyday Magic,
as well as a journalist with an article in this month’s issue of
Sagewoman.
She is also a mother of five, married and living in Rohnert Park with big dogs.
“What is a goddess,” I asked her. Well, it seems it’s the divine feminine aspect in all of us that allows the true creative soul to bear fruit. That would describe Tina! I believe she must be the writer’s writer who speaks from her very own being, with no veils, no pretense at all, open, honest and grounded like mother earth herself.
Tina grew up in Inverness, California and, after reading
To Kill a Mockingbird
in the seventh or eighth grade, she said to herself, “I want to do this.” She went on, “It was so exciting to get that kind of creativity, like secret messages in a way,” and has gone on to write ever since.
When I asked who were her favorite authors, Tina seemed to have romance in her voice. “I like it all. I like Nora Roberts books because they are easy to read with happy endings.” It seems that she also likes crime novels and suspense like
Jaws
as well. I loved the fact that she actually reads reference books. Yep, she likes to study. “I like local authors. When I’m inspired I can’t stop writing. When my kids were young, I didn’t have a camera so I would journal everything in order to not forget memories.
“I discipline myself to write two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon on different projects.” With her savings Tina is having Robbi Bryant edit her book,
One’s Own Sweet Way
. It is about a family living with a teenager that has hidden disabilities. With research she is writing a manual that incorporates what practices or rituals are involved in a new priestesshood, all found at
her website
.
I can’t tell you what a delight and inspiration it is to meet a good writer who has such miraculous optimism and is self-driven by it. Go talk to her sometime… with an open heart and open mind.
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NEXT MONTH'S MEETING
Sunday, August 12
2–4:30 p.m.
FLAMINGO HOTEL
Writing Editing Marketing —
It's All One Process
with M.M. Allen
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Writers News from Around the Bay
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If you have news of interest to our members, please submit copy and a photo if you wish by the 15th of the month prior to
editor@redwoodwriters.org
.
Editor reserves the right to accept and/or edit. Thank you.
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Our mailing address is The Redwood Writer, P.O. Box 4687, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Redwood Writers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Redwood Writers Meetings
General membership meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month (moves one week ahead if a holiday) from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Flamingo Conference Resort and Spa, located at
2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405.
Registration starts at 2 p.m.
Copyright © 2018 Redwood Writers. All rights reserved.
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