Member Highlights:
(1) Appearance: On March 5, 2011, P.M.H. Atwater was at Unity Church (Charlottesville, Virginia) for a reading and autographing of her book, "Near Death Experience: The Rest of the Story."
(2) Television Appearance: On April 27, 2011, Hilda Ward, poet and Blue Ridge Chapter member, interviewed BRC poets, Lauvonda Lynn Young (Just A Woman), Linda Levokove (Walk on the Heart Side), and Elizabeth Doyle Solomon (The Steering Wheel Poems), on her television show, Artistic Expressions (Channel 13, Charlottesville Public Access television).
(3) Lauvonda Lynn Young conducted a Haiku Fun workshop at the Fluvanna County Senior Center, April 27, 2011.
(4) The BRC, Annual Members Poetry Reading, held April 27, 2011, was well attended and enjoyed by those present. Readers, in order of appearance, were Holley Watts, Lynn Young, Leonard Tuchyner; Linda Levokove; Sigrid Mirabella, Sara Robinson; Elizabeth Solomon; Bill Lumpkin; and Ted Grudzinski.
(5) Randy Salzman, Vice President and Treasurer of the BRC, enlightened the membership with his guest appearance on May 25, 2011, and talk about "A Little Cash - Very Little Cash: Finding A Way to Sell Writing to Media."
(6) Linda Levokove (Walk on the Heart Side), Elizabeth Solomon (The Steering Wheel Poems), and Lauvonda Lynn Young (Just A Woman), made the first appearance of their "Three Broads Talk Poetry," at the June 22, 2011, monthly meeting of the BRC. Linda, Elizabeth, and Lynn joined other poets for a book reading/signing at SWAG (Staunton, Waynesboro, Augusta Group), Staunton, Virginia, on April 20, 2011. They will do an additional "Three Broads Talk Poetry," August 25, 2011, 4 p.m., at Golden Living (The Cedars), in Charlottesville, Virginia.
(7) Sara Robinson's poem, "Senjaray, Afghanistan," placed third in Poetry in the 2011 Spring Shorts Contest, sponsored by the Virginia Writers Club. (8) SWAG, won second place in the Downtown Staunton sponsored "Bridges Storefront Gallery," for the terrific window display the group created.
(8) Earlier this year (2011), Gary Kessler launched his fourth Cyprus international intrigue mystery novel, Amathus Armageddon, under the pen name Gina Drew; and his third Charlotte Diamond mystery novella, Coast to Coast, under the pen name Olivia Stowe. Both books are available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon.com, and in other e-book formats, or other on-line e-book stores. The sixth and last book of the Cyprus Intrigue series, Homewrecker, by Gary's pen name Gina Drew, and the fourth Charlotte Diamond mystery, An Inconvenient Death, by Gary's pen name Olivia Stowe, are available in e-book form from online distributors and the paperback versions are available from Amazon.com.
(9) Sarah (Sally) Collins Honenberger delighted the membership with her guest appearance on July 27, 2011, titled "Oprah and Other Fairy Tales for Writers." Sally talked about the brass tacks of writing and publishing; left her audience with many useful tips; and, talked about her current book, Catcher, Caught, which to-date has sold well over 8,000 copies, and is being used by several high school teachers as a companion to studying The Catcher in the Rye. Sally did a March 29, 2011, NPR interview; made an appearance at Writerhouse (April 17, 2011); and one at Over the Moon Bookstore (Crozet, Virginia) on May 15th.
(10) Lauvonda Lynn Young, member, Blue Ridge Writers/VWC (Just A Woman), joined members of the Appalachian Authors Guild - Russell Rose (Death on Red Oak Lake); Linda Hudson Hoagland (Death by Computer); Rodney Smith (Miranda's Shattered Life); and Claudia Ware (Clues - A Mystery at Ridge Manor) - for an author's book signing, August 6-7, 2011, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., at the annual Virginia Highlands Festival in Abingdon, Virginia.

MARCH, 2011



Lauvonda Lynn (Meade) Young's first book of poetry, Just A Woman, was released March 19, 2011 by Cedar Creek Publishing. The book features poetry, prose and homespun recipes. The book is available at Cedarcreekauthors.com, Amazon.com, and from Lynn Young.


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