Monarch e-News - Monterey Bay RWA

MONTEREY BAY CHAPTER RWA
VOL. 11 - ISSUE 11 - NOVEMBER 2014
M onar c h e - N e w s
Monterey Bay Chapter RWA
P. O. Box 1002
Felton, CA 95018
http://www.MontereyBayRWA.com
IN THIS ISSUE
✦ President's Message
✦ Editor's Note
✦ Program: Retreat at Chaminade
✦ Website and Blog
✦ Sister Chapters
✦ RWA Contests & Workshops
✦ 2014 Chapter Programs
✦ 2015 Meeting Dates
ABOUT US
Monterey Bay Chapter is affiliated with
Romance Writers of America,
headquartered in Houston, Texas.
RWA® is a non-profit professional and
educational association of romance
writers and other publishing industry
professionals. www.rwanational.org
OFFICERS
President - Maureen O'Hagan Betita -
jacarnda at sbcglobal.net
Vice President/Program - Barbara Cool
Lee - mail at barbaracoollee.com
Vice President/Communications - TBD
Secretary - Carolyn Comings ccomings at redshift.com
Treasurer - Bette Nybakken bnybakken at redshift.com
Webmistress - Carolyn Comings ccomings at redshift.com
Literary - Carolyn Woolston - carolynw
at cruzio.com
Membership - Barbara Cool Lee - mail
at barbaracoollee.com
COPYRIGHT 2014
The Monarch, E-News is a monthly
publication of California's Monterey Bay
Romance Writers, RWA® Chapter
#92. RWA® sister chapters may reprint
articles with proper credit. Any other
publication must obtain written
permission from the author.
No Saturday Meeting
Writers’ Retreat SUNDAY, November 2
Chaminade Conference Center
President's Message
by Maureen O. Betita
Life is better at sea. Hope to see you all at the retreat!
Editor's Note
by Christie Maurer
The newsletter needs your articles and news!
My RWA grace period ended September 30. An ungraced former
member is getting out this newsletter.
An ungraced newsletter producer cannot get any more of the
articles you’ve enjoyed, so I’m asking you to submit yours. We are all
writers. We all have something to share--our wisdom, our experiences.
Even the most beginning writer has experienced the joy and
frustration of turning on the computer or getting out the blank sheet
of paper and staring at it. And the multi-published writer must again
turn on the computer and try to dredge up wonders, charming heroes
and heroines, and dastardly villains, whose adventures intrigue readers
enough to buy the book, to draw them in and keep them turning
pages--or flipping the Kindle/iBook screen. Maybe you earn praise,
recognition, or an award.
Do share.
Send me your news and articles. Do you have a new book coming
out? A breakthrough? A great idea? Philosophy of Life and Writing?
Deadline for submission is October 20 to maure4cr at baymoon.com
See you at the retreat.
FYI November 2 is El dia de los muertos, Day of the Dead. To
paraphrase Terry Pratchett’s immortal Granny Weatherwax:
We ain’t dead.
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Sunday November 2, 2014 Meeting
(Not Saturday November 1)
Monterey Bay Chapter's next meeting is on Sunday, November 2, 2014, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., an allday, no-cost, meals included Writers’ Retreat at Chaminade Conference Center, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz
95065 - (831) 475-5600 (http://www.chaminade.com/)
Directions:
Exit Highway 1 at Soquel Drive.
From the north, follow the exit ramp around to the right to Soquel Drive. Turn right on Soquel Drive, a
long block. Left on Paul Sweet Road, continue less than a mile until you reach Chaminade Lane on the right.
From the south, Follow the exit ramp to Soquel Drive. Go straight across Soquel onto Paul Sweet Road
and continue less than a mile until you reach Chaminade Lane on the right.
Bring your appetite, the food is excellent, and your favorite writing tools--laptops, iPads, smart phones, yellow
lined pads, pencils, pens… NaNoWriMo will have just started, and this is an excellent opportunity to make
significant progress. I like to have a couple of thousand words ahead for those days when “life” (Thanksgiving)
and “the gods” (a power outage) interfere with my cranking out that 1,667 words.
Chapter Website and Blog
Visit our Chapter website: http://www.MontereyBayRWA.com The Chapter Blog.is on http://
montereybayrwa.blogspot.com/ e-mail Carolyn Comings for an invitation to blog with us - ccomings at
redshift.com
Sister Chapters
Check out the websites for nearby Chapters. They have some terrific programs:
San Francisco - http://www.sfarwa.com/
Silicon Valley - http://www.svrwa.com/
RWA Workshops
Contests, conferences, workshops, requests for promo items, etc. are on the Chapter Events forum: http://
www.rwa.org/p/fo/si/topic=1458 on the RWA National website. Your membership number is your password.
MBC Programs for 2014
✦November
✦December
2 (Sunday) All-day Writers’ Retreat, Chaminade Conference Center
6 Holiday Party/Retreat & goals review
MBFW Meeting Dates 2015
✦January
3
7
✦March 7
✦April 4
✦May 2
✦June 6
✦(no meeting in July)
✦August 1
✦September 5
✦October 3
✦November 7
✦December 5
✦February
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