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August 2016

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Newsletter Editor and club communications director Norma Jean Thornton asks members to submit their news and suggestions.

Link to June 2016 newsletter

Link to May 2016 newsletter INDEX for what’s in this newsletter is further down the page.  Newsletter is still a work in progress, so please bear with me.  This month is 3 pages shorter, but still long;.  For right now, it needs to be, since we need to continue to both THANK  and advertise our full sponsor & donor information and contact.  The 2016 donation information will end with this newsletter For the next six months, we’ll keep the current contact information for both.  After that, it will be time to start with the new 2017 Sponsors and Donors. Want your name and/or business mentioned here for that long?  Donate to the Silent Auction, or sponsor us in 2017.  The sooner you donate/sponsor, the longer your info is advertised. Trying something new ~ there are two member interaction items casually mentioned in this newsletter ~ INFO ON A PRIZE, and INFO ON A WRITING PROMPT.  You’ll have to read it all (or at least, skim through it) in order to find them … Let’s see how many of you read this, and how many will participate? We’re a group of writers and publishers!  Let’s WRITE!  Send your answers, and PROMPT article ASAP to me: normathornton@yahoo.com INDEX for May 2016 newsletter: Page 1 ~ June NCPA MeetingS ~ YES, 2 meetings ~ includes NEW LUNCHTIME meeting info Pages 2 & 3 ~ President’s message, Chatter from our NEW LUNCHTIME MEETING & Short    Articles from the five (5) in attendance that first day (Wed 18 May) Page 4 ~ Upcoming Meetings & Events ~ including NEWS on 2017 Book Awards Banquet Page 5 ~ List of Award Winners: copy of: NCPA 2016 BOOK AWARDS PRESS RELEASE Page 6 ~ Review of 2016 Awards Banquet … and news on 2017 Awards Banquet Top of Page 7 ~ Pictures of cake and program from Awards Banquet (apologize for pix quality) Rest of Page 7 ~ Member’s Corner: Info on members Kim Edwards, &  Robert M. Pacholik Page 8 ~ BottleKatz:  pictures & story by Pres Sharon Darrow ~ Editor Notes on her book Page 9 & Top of Page 10 ~ Making Connections Corner~ Meeting and contact info on    Sister-Organizations ~ CWC, Cap Crimes, SSWI, SVR, SCBWI Rest of Page 10 ~ SCBWI Upcoming Events ~ & my Comments on 2016 SCBWI Conference Top of Page 11: NEW ~ AROUND THE WEB ~ If you have a special writing / publishing site     you’d like to share, or one you just happened to run across, pass it on and we’ll add it here Bottom of Page 11 ~ Sponsor info Pages 12 & 13 ~ Donation & Donors’ info Page 14 ~ Board of Director & NCPA General Meeting information Page 15 ~ Newsletter info and contact If interested, you can also go to the Archived Newsletters that go back to 2009.  Just click on the dropdown box from NEWS : NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE, then  Click on the month/year you’re interested in, and read away!  There’s lots of good stuff in there!                                    Norma Jean

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                        Media Contact: Sharon Darrow, NCPA President

April 25, 2016                                                                          Sharon@SharonSDarrow.com  

                                                                                                                                    NorCalPA.org

 

Northern California Publishers and Authors, a professional association of small, independent, and self-publishers, is pleased to announce the winners of its 2016 Book Awards competition, who were honored at a gala banquet in Sacramento on Sunday, April 24.

CATEGORY	BOOK	AWARD	AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
Poetry	Orbital Paths	First Place	Richard Meyer ScienceThrillers Media
Children's Books	Wordsworth, It’s In Your Pocket	First Place	Frances Kakugawa
Young Adult	Kidding Around NYC	Second Place	Suzanne Roche
	Making It Home	Honorable Mention	Suzanne Roche
General Non-Fiction	When Your Child Has Lyme Disease	First Place	Dorothy K. Leland  & Sandra K. Berenbaum
	Hazim Beg Shemdin Agha	Second Place	Hazar Shemdin Bazirgan
Fiction	Between Will and Surrender	First Place	Margaret Duarte
	Hot Trail	Second Place	Katie Yaranon
Trade Publications	A Small Indiscretion	First Place	Jan Ellison/Random House
Cover & Design	A Small Indiscretion	First Place	Jan Ellison/Random House
	Kidding Around NYC	Second Place	Suzanne Roche
	Orbital Paths	Third Place	Richard Meyer/STM
	Wordsworth, It’s In Your Pocket	Honorable Mention	Frances Kakugawa
Judges’ Choice	A Small Indiscretion	Special Award	Jan Ellison/Random House

NCPA would also like to recognize and thank our banquet sponsors, whose contributions help fund our awards program and annual $1000 college scholarship.

2016 Sponsors

Cherry Island Golf Course

Cindy Sample

Face in a Book bookstore

Sizzler

Danna Wilberg

Bitsy Kemper

Barry Schoenborn

Independent Book Publishers Association

Wilson Trophy

Sharon Darrow / Travel ID Cards

Azevedo Print & Design / MKE Creative

Walmart

Tugboat Fish & Chips

Time Tested Books

Thalia Publishing / Pam Suwinsky

Sharif Jewelers

Roaring Camp Mining Company

Placer Pops Chorale

Old Spaghetti Factory

Grand Oaks Inn B&B

California Wine / Lodi Wine Country / Zinfest

Finally, THANK YOU to everyone who attended the awards banquet, bid on auction items, or purchased books from the NCPA author/publisher bookstore.

Click to view April 2016 newsletter.

Volunteer needed for newsletter editor. Please contact Norma Jean Thornton for more information. Editor will likely qualify for exemption from annual NCPA membership dues!

Elections for 2016-17 NCPA Board officers will be the end of March. If you would like to run for office, please contact President Sharon Darrow ASAP.

Candidates:

President: Sharon Darrow

VP: June Azevedo

Secretary: Tom Kando

Treasurer: Amy Rogers

Communications: Norma Jean Thornton

Reserve your tickets for the 25th Anniversary NCPA Book Awards Banquet now. You may either pay online, or print and mail reservation form with a personal check.

Print on demand technology has changed a lot in recent years. Quality is up, price is down, and POD is no longer a barrier to getting your books stocked in bookstores. Amy will discuss how you can use POD to publish and distribute paper books, with a specific emphasis on IngramSpark and amazon's CreateSpace.

About the Speaker:

Amy Rogers, MD, PhD, is a scientist, writer, journalist, educator, critic, and publisher who specializes in all things science-y. She is a member of International Thrillers Writers and is currently serving as Treasurer for NCPA.

FOR MORE INFORMATION visit Amy's websites:

ScienceThrillersMedia.com (publishing company)

AmyRogers.com (author Amy Rogers)

ScienceThrillers.com (genre-specific book reviews)

Anderson will speak on "How to Pitch," especially how pitching to a publisher/editor/agent differs from pitching to a producer or studio. He’ll also discuss a little about writing with speed, plus will enlighten us on the ins and outs of screenwritingand working in the industry. If there's time, Sterling might also share some juicy inside stories!

About the Speaker:

Three-time NAACP Image Award nominee for best screenwriter and winner of the Movieguide Faith & Freedom award for "The Gabby Douglas Story," Sterling has written for some of the most popular network television shows, such as "The Unit" on CBS, as well as NBC's "Medium" and "Heist."

His teleplay "The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn," written for CBS starring Sidney Poitier, garnered a Best Actress Emmy nomination for Dianne Wiest and won an Image Award. Sterling's extensive resume also includes screenplays written for Lifetime, Lions Gate, Disney, HBO, TriStar Pictures and Columbia Pictures.

A graduate in English from St. Mary’s College, the accomplished writer also spent five years teaching screenwriting courses as an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Sterling has written two books on writing: Go To Script and 15 Steps To Becoming A Successful (Artist) Screenwriter and a novel called Five Seconds To Go. The author often lectures and serves on panels on screenwriting at film schools and festivals across the country.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON STERLING check  the following websites:

http://sterlingandersonwriter.com/about.html

http://www.sterlingwritersgroup.com/