California Writers Club - Sacramento Branch
Board of Directors
Elaine Adams
Kimberly Edwards
Anthony Folcarelli
Denny Grayson
Evelyn Luscher
Member Accomplishments Kiyo Sato-Nunneley Wins Gold Award from NCPA
Northern California Publishers & Authors (NCPA, www.norcalpa.org) has announced its annual awards for books published in 2007. The Gold Award (best book overall) went to Dandelion Through the Crack: The Sato Family Quest for the American Dream, by CWC-Sacramento member Kiyo Sato, published by Willow Valley Press, Nevada City, California. The Best First Book award, too, went to Dandelion Through the Crack.
Dandelion Through the Crack is available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Baker Taylor (wholesaler), as well as directly from the publisher. For more information see www.dandelionthroughthecrack.com.
Raymond L. Ledesma
Antonio's Journey
paperback 325 pages
Authorhouse, 2003
Marlys Johnsen Norris
Author of Five Books:
God Moves Mountains
NCPA Award Winning, Recipes for A Happier Marriage
Short Stories for the Family
Defining Moments
Messages in the Dust for the Searching Soul
Articles in Walking with the Wise Entrepreneur and
Auburn-Foothills Writer's Group Book, Feathers from His Quiver
Columnist for the past year for American River Messenger
Life Message Workshops
Coming Soon: Intimacy Begins Going God's Way
and Senior Gleanings
Web site: www.Heavenlyboundpublishers.com
All Books available through Marlys.
Marlysj@sbcglobal.net
P.O. Box 5144, Fair Oaks, Ca 95628
Member Sales Reports
Arlet Voller's poem, "Sharing Caleb's Dream," appeared in an anthology of poetry edited by Lutheran pastor and poet Mark Patrick Odland, who contacted 28 colleges, 8 seminaries and numerous Lutheran congregations for submissions. Out of over 1,200 submissions he selected 138 for his anthology titled, SIMUL, Lutheran Voices in Poetry.
Ken Umbach has published Capital Crimes: 15 Tales by Sacramento Area Authors, a mystery anthology by members of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento Chapter of Sisters in Crime, edited by Kathleen L. Asay and Patricia E. Canterbury. The book will be available in area bookstores and via online book sellers such as Amazon.com. The anthology has been a goal of the Sisters in Crime chapter for many years, and finally has come to fruition. (Citrus Heights, CA: Umbach Consulting & Publishing, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-6151-8508-8; $15.95.) The launch party is scheduled for Borders Books on Fair Oaks, Sacramento, noon to 4 p.m., Saturday March 29, 2008.
Grace Ertel reports the following sales: “The Oregon Cabaret Theatre” to Romantic Traveling, Spring 2007; “Green Hospitality in Napa Valley” to Vine Times, September 2007 and “Persimmons—The Late Blooming Fruit” to Sierra Heritage Magazine, October 2007. Norma Lehr announced the publication of Dark Maiden, her supernatural suspense trade paperback adult novel from Juno Books, an imprint of Wildside Press. "After having four middle-grade novels in a ghost series published during the '90s, this is my first adult novel." It can be ordered through Amazon.com.
Karl Palachuk, long-standing member of the Sacramento CWC and an active participant of the Non-Fiction Network, announced the publication of his third book, Relax Focus Succeed.
Relax Focus Succeed (Great Little Book Publishing, Co., Inc.) is subtitled A Guide to Balancing Your Personal and Professional Lives and Becoming More Successful in Both. The book identifies fundamental keys to success: focus, hard work, and balance.
Palachuk has published the free Relax Focus Succeed® newsletter since 2002. He is the owner of three Sacramento-based companies. Palachuk is a speaker, trainer, and author. In 2006 he taught seminars in six European cities, as well as a dozen cities in the U.S. For more information, visit his websites at www.relaxfocussucceed.com and www.kpenterprises.com.
Elaine Adams is proud to report the publication of her first book, The Healing House: A Memoir. It is available from PublishAmerica.com, bookstores, and from Amazon.com.
Her lighthearted 1930s Bay Area "city girl" story is intertwined with long, rural summers at an 1893 Swedish-homesteaded farmhouse. Located at Hayden Lake, Idaho, the farmhouse was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Of local interest, some old-time Sacramento "snapshots" are included. Helene Vorce-Tish's book, Fencing with Danger: Pavel Lubov's True Story is available in bookstores. This is a fast-moving nonfiction narrative that focuses on the life of Pavel Lubov shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union. Pavel was determined to expose the suppression of human rights. This led him to numerous beatings and confrontations with the KGB. Later, a love story evolves after Pavel meets a beautiful Russian girl. After much fast-moving action, Pavel receives political asylum in the United States. Later, Natasha is able to join him.
Arlene Evans announced the publication of her first novel, Dinner for Two, available from Echelon Press at www.echelonpress.com, Amazon.com, or your local book store.
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