Next Meeting: Thursday, 29 January, at 6:30 p.m.
at the Tustin Marketplace Corner Bakery (13652 Jamboree Road, Irvine)
11 Sep meeting notes; 18 Sep reading list
11 SEPTEMBER MEETING NOTES
Eleven people attended: Burt, Casey (read a chapter from The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly), Glenda, Jo, Kari (read the conclusion to her untitled short story), Lance (read a chapter from the Fake reboot), Maddie, Richard, Shari, Stace and Steve J. (read the first two chapters of Lust Gambit).
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! is happening 7-9 p.m. on 30 September at Kean Coffee. The author lineup:
- Terri Nolan will read samples from her Burden of Truth trilogy.
- Burt Golden will read from Jericho’s Walls
- Steve Jackson will read from The Zeus Payload
The Facebook event is up; I’ll post flyers soon.
We’re still looking for a venue for LIT UP North! in the Fullerton/Placentia/Brea area, perhaps something along the lines of the Kean Coffee model. If you know of such a thing, please reply in the comments.
18 SEPTEMBER READING LIST
Stace (9/11)
Maddie (9/11)
JoAnne (9/4)
Glenda (9/11)
Richard (9/11)
Rosie (8/21)
Marianna (8/28)
Shari (9/11)
Burt (9/11)
Jo (9/11)
Kari (9/11)
Casey (9/11)
Lance (9/11)
Steve J. (9/11)
4 Sep meeting notes; 11 Sep reading list
4 SEPTEMBER MEETING NOTES
Ten people attended: Burt (read three chapters from Dead Listing), Casey, Jo (read a chapter from Moonspell), JoAnne, Kari, Lance, Maddie, Richard, Shari (read two revised chapters from Raised to Win) and Stace.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! is a go for 7-9 p.m. on 30 September at Kean Coffee. The author lineup includes Teri Nolan and PFL’s own Burt and Steve J.
We’re still looking for a venue for LIT UP North! in the Fullerton/Placentia/Brea area, perhaps something along the lines of the Kean Coffee model. If you know of such a thing, please reply in the comments.
11 SEPTEMBER READING LIST
Stace (9/4)
Maddie (9/4)
JoAnne (9/4)
Glenda (8/28)
Richard (9/4)
Rosie (8/21)
Marianna (8/28)
Kari (9/4)
Casey (9/4)
Lance (9/4)
Steve J. (8/28)
Shari (9/4)
Burt (9/4)
Jo (9/4)
28 Aug meeting notes; 4 Sep reading list
28 AUGUST MEETING NOTES
Eleven people attended: Burt, Casey (read 1.5 chapters from The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly), Glenda, Kari (read the continuation of her untitled short story), Lance (read a chapter from the Fake reboot), Maddie, Marianna, Richard, Shari, Stace, and new member Steve J.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! will happen on or around 30 September at Kean Coffee. We’re looking for a venue for LIT UP North! in the Fullerton/Placentia/Brea area, perhaps something along the lines of the Kean Coffee model. If you know of such a thing, please reply in the comments.
4 SEPTEMBER READING LIST
Stace (8/28)
Maddie (8/28)
JoAnne (8/14)
Glenda (8/28)
Shari (8/28)
Burt (8/28)
Richard (8/28)
Jo (8/14)
Rosie (8/21)
Marianna (8/28)
Kari (8/28)
Casey (8/28)
Lance (8/28)
Steve J. (8/28)
21 Aug meeting notes; 28 Aug reading list
21 AUGUST MEETING NOTES
Nine people attended: Casey, Glenda, Kari, Lance (read two chapters from the Fake reboot), Marianna (read a chapter from Tzar Gold), Richard, Rosie (read a revised chapter from On Thin Ice), Stace, and potential new member Steve J. from SCWA.
News & Notes
August’s LIT UP! was another success. Up to twenty people came to Kean Coffee in Tustin to hear Sonia Marsh (reading from Freeways to Flip-Flops), PJ Colando (Stashes) and PFL’s own Lance Charnes (South). Congratulations and many thanks to Maddie for all her hard work pulling together the event!
28 AUGUST READING LIST
Stace (8/21)
Maddie (8/14)
JoAnne (8/14)
Kari (8/21)
Glenda (8/21)
Shari (7/31)
Burt (7/31)
Richard (8/21)
Jo (8/14)
Casey (8/21)
Rosie (8/21)
Marianna (8/21)
Lance (8/21)
14 Aug meeting notes; 21 Aug reading list
14 AUGUST MEETING NOTES
Eleven people attended: Casey (read a chapter from The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly), Glenda, Kari, Jo, JoAnne, Lance (read two revised chapters from the Fake reboot), Maddie, Marianna, Richard, Rosie and Stace.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! is coming at 7 p.m. this Wednesday, 20 August, at Kean Coffee in Tustin. You can download the flyers here (1-up and 2-up). The lineup this time:
- Sonia Marsh, reading Freeways to Flip-Flops (memoir)
- PJ Colando, reading Stashes (contemporary humor)
- Lance Charnes, reading South (near-future thriller)
Please start spreading the word!
21 AUGUST READING LIST
Stace (8/14)
Maddie (8/14)
JoAnne (8/14)
Kari (8/14)
Glenda (8/14)
Rosie (8/14)
Shari (7/31)
Burt (7/31)
Richard (8/14)
Jo (8/14)
Marianna (8/14)
Casey (8/14)
Lance (8/14)
7 Aug meeting notes; 14 Aug reading list
7 AUGUST MEETING NOTES
Eight people attended: Casey, Glenda, Kari, Lance (read two revised chapters from the Fake reboot), Maddie, Marianna (read a chapter from Tzar Gold), Richard and Rosie.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! will happen on 20 August at Kean Coffee in Tustin. You can download the flyers here (1-up and 2-up). The lineup this time:
- Sonia Marsh, reading Freeways to Flip-Flops (memoir)
- PJ Colando, reading Stashes (contemporary humor)
- Lance Charnes, reading South (near-future thriller)
Please start spreading the word!
14 AUGUST READING LIST
Stace (7/31)
Maddie (8/7)
JoAnne (7/31)
Kari (8/7)
Glenda (8/7)
Rosie (8/7)
Shari (7/31)
Burt (7/31)
Casey (8/7)
Richard (8/7)
Jo (7/31)
Lance (8/7)
Marianna (8/7)
31 July meeting notes; 7 Aug reading list
31 JULY MEETING NOTES
Ten people attended: Burt, Casey, Glenda, Jo (read two chapters from Moonspell), JoAnne, Lance, Richard (read the conclusion to his short story “Sequence of Events”), Rosie, Shari and Stace.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! will happen on 20 August at Kean Coffee in Tustin. You can download the flyers here (1-up and 2-up). Please start spreading the word!
Burt will make an appearance this October at a book club meeting in the San Fernando Valley, discussing his novel Jericho’s Walls (better known to PFL as Mister).
7 AUGUST READING LIST
Stace (7/31)
Maddie (7/10)
JoAnne (7/31)
Kari (7/17)
Glenda (7/31)
Rosie (7/31)
Lance (7/31)
Shari (7/31)
Burt (7/31)
Casey (7/31)
Marianna (7/24)
Richard (7/31)
Jo (7/31)
Jericho’s Walls, Burt Golden, contemporary fiction
In a single moment of anger exploited by the media, college basketball coach Tom Jericho became a national outcast. Now recovering from depression, he returns to the scene of his former glory, a Los Angeles inner-city high school where he hopes to regain his identity at an easy teaching job. Jericho believes that nothing has changed at his old school — not the students, not the teachers, not the neighborhood. But everything has changed.
Lacking any teaching experience, and given no textbooks or curriculum, he faces riotous students in the classroom. Jericho must confront his past and succeed where other teachers have failed, or he will be terminated. Time is not on his side.
Available for Kindle on Amazon US | AU | BR | CA | DE | FR | IT | JP | MX | UK.
As a college basketball coach, Burt Golden knew the upsides and downsides of the rough-and-tumble game like the back of his hand. As a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Examiner, the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, and the Japanese-language newspaper Rafu Shimpo, he learned to turn the game into an adventure.
24 July meeting notes; 31 July reading list
24 JULY MEETING NOTES
Ten people attended: Burt (read three chapters from Dead Listing), Casey (read a chapter from The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly), Glenda, JoAnne, Lance, Marianna (read the opening chapter from Tzar Gold), Richard, Rosie, Stace, and potential newcomer Lynn.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! will happen on 20 August at Kean Coffee in Tustin. You can download the flyers here (1-up and 2-up). Please start spreading the word!
As something of a counterpart to the Twitter-for-authors article she recommended two weeks ago, Glenda points out this article about what happens when one of your followers decides to become you.
31 JULY READING LIST
Stace (7/24)
Maddie (7/10)
JoAnne (7/24)
Jo (7/3)
Kari (7/17)
Richard (7/24)
Glenda (7/24)
Rosie (7/24)
Lance (7/24)
Shari (7/17)
Burt (7/24)
Casey (7/24)
Marianna (7/24)
Jonathan (6/12)
17 July meeting notes; 24 July reading list
17 JULY MEETING NOTES
Ten people attended: Casey, Glenda, JoAnne, Kari, Lance (read two revised chapters from the Fake reboot), Marianna, Richard, Rosie (read a revised chapter from On Thin Ice), Shari (read three revised chapters from Raised to Win) and Stace.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! will happen on 20 August at Kean Coffee in Tustin. You can download the flyers here (1-up and 2-up). Please start spreading the word!
24 JULY READING LIST
Stace (7/17)
Maddie (7/10)
JoAnne (7/17)
Burt (7/10)
Casey (7/17)
Jo (7/3)
Kari (7/17)
Marianna (7/17)
Richard (7/17)
Glenda (7/17)
Rosie (7/17)
Lance (7/17)
Shari (7/17)
Jonathan (6/12)
10 July meeting notes; 17 July reading list
10 JULY MEETING NOTES
Twelve people attended: Burt, Casey, Glenda (read a revision to part one of her short story “On the Waye”), JoAnne, Kari, Lance, Maddie, Marianna, Richard (read part one on his short story “A Sequence of Events”), Rosie, Shari and Stace.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP! will happen on 20 August at Kean Coffee in Tustin. The September LIT UP is likely to be our first branching out to a second location, this one in north/west county. If you know of any likely venues in those areas, please let Maddie know.
Glenda recommends a post in the Book Designer blog concerning an approach to building a Twitter followership without expending a huge amount of time in the doing.
17 JULY READING LIST
Stace (7/10)
Maddie (7/10)
JoAnne (7/10)
Rosie (7/10)
Burt (7/10)
Lance (7/10)
Shari (7/10)
Casey (7/10)
Jo (7/3)
Kari (7/10)
Marianna (7/10)
Richard (7/10)
Glenda (7/10)
Jonathan (6/12)
Lisa W. (5/29)
3 July meeting notes; 10 July reading list
3 JULY MEETING NOTES
Nine people attended: Casey (read a chapter from The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly), Jo (read a chapter from Moonspell), Kari (read the beginning of an untitled short story), Lance, Maddie, Richard, Shari, Stace, and Marianna, who’s been MIA since October 2012.
News & Notes
If you know authors who might be interested in reading at one of the upcoming LIT UP salons, please let Maddie know about it. We’ll be cutting back to three readers per event to limit the length and conserve our qualified authors.
10 JULY READING LIST
Stace (7/3)
Maddie (7/3)
Richard (7/3)
Glenda (6/19)
JoAnne (6/26)
Jonathan (6/12)
Rosie (6/26)
Burt (6/26)
Lance (7/3)
Shari (7/3)
Casey (7/3)
Jo (7/3)
Kari (7/3)
Lisa W. (5/29)
Marianna (7/3)
26 June meeting notes; 3 July reading list
26 JUNE MEETING NOTES
Ten people attended: Burt (read three chapters of Dead Listing (the former The Smell of Money)), Casey, JoAnne, Kari, Lance (read two chapters from the Fake reboot), Maddie, Richard, Rosie, Shari (read three reworked chapters from Raised to Win) and Stace.
News & Notes
If you know authors who might be interested in reading at one of the upcoming LIT UP salons, please let Maddie know about it.
3 JULY READING LIST
Stace (6/26)
Maddie (6/26)
Richard (6/26)
Glenda (6/19)
Lisa W. (5/29)
JoAnne (6/26)
Casey (6/26)
Jo (6/19)
Jonathan (6/12)
Rosie (6/26)
Kari (6/26)
Burt (6/26)
Lance (6/26)
Shari (6/26)
David R. (5/22)
19 June meeting notes; 26 June reading list
19 JUNE MEETING NOTES
Nine people attended: Burt, Casey, Jo, Maddie, Richard, Rosie (read two revised chapters of On Thin Ice), Shari (read three reworked chapters from Raised to Win), Stace and Carrie.
News & Notes
27 people attended the LIT UP salon last week, making this a nearly SRO event. Great job everyone! There will be no LIT UP event in July, so stay tuned for the August date to be announced soon.
26 JUNE READING LIST
Stace (6/19)
Maddie (6/19)
Richard (6/19)
David R. (5/22)
Glenda (6/19)
Burt (6/19)
Lisa W. (5/29)
JoAnne (6/12)
Casey (6/19)
Lance (6/12)
Jo (6/19)
Jonathan (6/12)
Rosie (6/19)
Shari (6/19)
Carrie (6/19)
12 June meeting notes; 19 June reading list
12 JUNE MEETING NOTES
Twelve people attended: Burt, Casey, Glenda, Jo (read a reworked chapter from Moonspell), JoAnne, Jonathan, Lance (read two chapters from the Fake reboot), Maddie, Richard, Rosie, Shari (read three reworked chapters from Raised to Win). and potential new member Carrie.
News & Notes
The next LIT UP salon will take place on 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, 18 June, at Kean Coffee in Tustin. This time’s lineup will be Jonathan, Glenda, Jo and Richard. Full- and half-sheet flyers (Lit Up 18 June 1-up and Lit Up 18 June 2-up) are available now. The Facebook event page is also active. Remember to RSVP in order to get your $1 discount for any food or drinks you buy at Kean during the event.
19 JUNE READING LIST
Stace (6/5)
Maddie (6/12)
Richard (6/12)
Rosie (6/12)
David R. (5/22)
Glenda (6/12)
Burt (6/12)
Lisa W. (5/29)
JoAnne (6/12)
Casey (6/12)
Shari (6/12)
Lance (6/12)
Jo (6/12)
Jonathan (6/12)
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