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Sunday, February 21, 2016

SUNDAY REVIEW / ROTHER’S WRITERS GROUP CONVENES



SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 30, 2016

It's Beach House Writing Salon time again, this time in a new more convenient location for folks from San Diego’s North County or Orange County.

For those of you who came to the first BHWS or BHWS II, or wanted to come to the next iteration of this all-day intimate event, please note that we are offering all new sessions and two new faculty members.

If you know someone who might be interested, please share this event page. Please contact host, Caitlin Rother, to sign up or to ask questions, at crother@flash.net.

The event will offer four 1:15 hour craft sessions, one-on-one critiques with faculty, a panel discussion and culminate with a cocktail party on the deck to enjoy adult beverages, a beautiful view and live music. The early-registration price remains $165 until March 30, critiques are $40/$50, and the first five people to sign up (and pay) for both will win a set of free books from the author faculty. Please see the bios below, with many more details to come shortly.

Check this link for full details on the craft sessions and logistical details of the event,
http://beachhousewritingsalon.blogspot.com/

FACULTY ADDITIONS:

Steve Jackson is a New York Times bestselling author of true crime, crime fiction, history and biography. During a more than two-decade career as a newspaper journalist, he won numerous national and regional awards for writing, explanatory journalism and investigative journalism, and was particularly known for his interviewing technique and narrative style. His writing mentor was Jon Franklin, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author of Writing For Story, which is the basis for Steve’s Building A Better Book discussion with his own personal additions. He has written two dozen books, including a long-running thriller series under the name Robert K. Tanenbaum, as well as true crime bestsellers MONSTER, NO STONE UNTURNED and BOGEYMAN. He is also co-owner of indie publishing company WildBlue Press.

Susan Carol McCarthy is the award-winning author of three works of literary fiction, LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS, TRUE FIRES, and A PLACE WE KNEW WELL (Random House, October 2015) plus the non-fiction BOOMERS 101: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION. Her books have been widely selected by libraries and universities for their One Book, One Community and Freshman Year Read programs, and incorporated into school curriculums in 29 states and six countries. Although each of her novels was inspired by true historical events—a series of shocking race crimes, notoriously corrupt small-town politics, a week of military-imposed terror—McCarthy is best known for creating muscle-and-blood characters for whom the larger political becomes intensely personal, and for her original blend of “fact, memory, imagination, and truth with admirable grace.” (The Washington Post).
www.SusanCarolMcCarthy.com

Caitlin Rother, New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist, has written or co-authored 10 books, drawing from decades of newspaper experience covering topics ranging from criminal justice, suicide, addiction, mental illness and murder to corruption, incompetence, and waste at City Hall and in Congress. Caitlin, whose books range from narrative non-fiction crime to memoir and crime fiction, has done more than 100 TV and radio appearances. Her latest book, THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER, and her Kindle shorts, A Complicated Woman and The Fugitive With One Shoe, were published in 2015 and 2016. She is currently writing another short, Overkill, and a political crime book, HONEST SERVICES?: CORRUPTION, DISORDER AND CRIMINAL INJUSTICE. Caitlin also works as a book doctor, writing-research-promotions coach and consultant, and teaches narrative non-fiction at UCSD Extension and San Diego Writers, Ink.
http://caitlinrother.com/


Susan White, editor of three Pulitzer Prize-winning news projects, is a master craftsperson of narrative nonfiction. After working at the Lexington Herald-Leader as an education reporter and television critic, Susan rose through the ranks of the San Diego Union-Tribune, from reporter to writing coach, U.S.-Mexico border editor and then enterprise editor. Combining her fictional storytelling and investigative journalism skills to help reporters tell complex stories through narrative, she helped edit her first Pulitzer winning series at the U-T in 2006. She became the first assigning editor at the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica in 2008, where she edited her second winner in 2010. She then became executive editor ofInsideClimate News, where her third project won in 2013. Today she is working with a group of prominent journalists to launch InquireFirst, an investigative reporting non-profit whose goal is to expand the boundaries of traditional journalism.

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