*In Person at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant.
September 10, 2022 11:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
*This is not a hybrid meeting.
Featured Speaker
Duffy Jennings
After his newspaper career, Duffy Jennings served as vice president of public relations for the San Francisco Giants baseball club for twelve years. He oversaw media relations, publications, business communications, community relations, and alumni relations. Following the Giants, Jennings ran his own public relations company for more than twenty years. He also launched and published Los Gatos Magazine. Jennings is the author of Reporter’s Note Book: A San Francisco Chronicle Journalist’s Diary of the Shocking Seventies, published in 2019 by Grizzly Peak Press.
Rewrite! A Journalist Turns Author
Duffy Jennings is an author and former prize-winning reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle in the tumultuous 1970s. His coverage included the City Hall murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and the Zodiac and Zebra serial killings.
The newspaper submitted Jennings’s reporting on the murder trial of the City Hall killer, former supervisor Dan White, for Pulitzer Prize consideration. All told, Jennings’s byline appeared on more than five hundred articles for the Chronicle. Actor Adam Goldberg portrayed Duffy in the 2007 film, Zodiac.
What we will Learn:
- Why Being a Reporter Doesn’t Make You a Writer
- Get Into Their Head: How to Write Someone Else’s Memoir
- Agents, Publishers, and Self-Publishing
- Finding the Newspaper Archive in Your Computer
Writers Table
Linda Hartmann
Linda Hartmann has been an avid reader of various genres and disciplines. Throughout her career in critical care and as a scientist in biotech, she wrote many research documents for U.S. and ex-U.S. Regulatory Authorities (FDA, EMEA Europe, PMDA Japan). CDAs meant the intel was confidential to all on the outside. Torn between the sciences and arts, she elected to combine them with creative writing, painting, sketching, and exploring the world with travel. Beta-reading for others followed organically
Beta Readers
From this Workshop-style overview of what Beta-Reading is about and how it adds amazing, surprising, and outstanding value to your final drafts and published works, you will learn the following:
- What is beta-reading?
- Reason – Why should I need this when I am happy with my draft?
- Identify who are the best Beta-readers for your book & how to find them
- Transmit with security
- Enlighten, Educate, and Engage yourself and your beta-readers
- Wrangles and Wishes identified?
- Ask, the pertinent questions and Assimilate
- Yielding and Yucks
Schedule
- 11:00 -11:15 – Check-in
- 11:15 – 12:00 – Writers Table
- 12:00 – 12:25 – Lunch and Business Meeting
- 1:00 – 2:00 – Speaker Presentation
