Monthly Meeting Announcements

All meetings are held from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm on the 4th Monday of the month at the County Health Facility located at 3851 Rosecrans Street in the Sports Arena area. See the map for directions.

Mon. Aug. 23 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) The San Diego Writers/Editors Guild will have their monthly meeting with Linda Meckler, the author of Ghost Kids Trilogy, a book for ages 8-14 to adult. It contains three stories in one book with adventure and mystery.

She has also written Fight Your Medical Insurance Nightmares:  Let Me Show You How, a book that helps people help themselves to get their medical bills paid. She has written approximately 300 articles for Ezine Articles (http://ezinearticles.com/) and other websites. 

Linda's ebooks include Boost Your Self-esteem and Blossom, Computer Stations that Work, Sleep Apnea with CPAP Machine and TTY Communication Book. She has been a member of Toastmasters, a public speaking club, for five years. She is president of that group and a member of the San Diego's Writers and Editors Guild. Linda Meckler can be contacted at (619)-303-8864 or (619) 504-2486. Her website, Linda Mechler is at http://www.lindamecklerauthor.com.

Mon. Sept. 27 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) The San Diego Writers/Editors Guild will have their monthly meeting with Barbara Field whose lecture will be Making a Living as a Writer. Do you want to expand your writing/editing/marketing business? Do you seek more freelance options in these difficult economic times? Our guest speaker wrote fashion copy, promoted Star Wars movies, wrote and edited scientific materials, penned a novel, developed children's books and launched a successful marketing campaign using Facebook to reach more than 22,000 college students. Learn about different career paths and a variety of ways to market yourself. Bio: Since graduating from Barnard College/Columbia University, Barbara Field has made her living as a communications specialist, writer/editor, consultant and marketer. She has worked on staff for CBS (NY), Harcourt Brace Children's Books, and Scripps Research Institute. She is currently Communications Manager at UC San Diego. She has freelanced for ad agencies and published in newspapers, magazines and online. Her novel, The Deeper, the Bluer, won 1st Place for Mainstream Fiction in the 14th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards.

 

Mon. Oct. 25 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) The San Diego Writers/Editors Guild will have their monthly meeting with well-known writing instructor, Lee Silber. He has something really great in mind for his speech to our group. The title is Time To Write and is about how best-selling authors found the time to start and finish their early works and what your members can learn from them. There are several stories that are inspiring, some are informative, and all are interesting. I know this will be a hit because he just gave this same exact program in Reno in April. Lee Silber email address is leesilber@earthlink.net.

 

Mon. Nov. 22 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) The San Diego Writers/Editors Guild will have their monthly meeting with well-known writer, wordsmith and TV star, Richard Lederer. More information will follow.

 

Mon. Dec. 27 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) The San Diego Writers/Editors Guild will have their annual holiday party. More information will follow.

 

Mon. Jan. 24, 2011 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) December is party time!  The San Diego Writers/ Editors Guild will have their monthly meeting with former reporter, Caitlin Rother who has an interesting story about her career path. Many would benefit from her experience—how she moved from the dying profession of daily journalism to published book author and the travails she encountered along the way.