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Happy New Year’s Everybody!

Posted on February 19, 2014 by beverlymagid in Beverly's Blog

Janet Fitch always said when I was in her workshop, that you must write an hour a day, no matter what. If you didn’t exercise the muscle it would atrophy. 2014 has tested that theory to the extreme for me. It’s been so hard to even sit at the computer and stare at the blank page, so I didn’t bother sitting there. I would use my phone to access emails and then I wouldn’t feel guilty about doing nothing. But that’s no way to achieve anything. Sometimes you just have to fake it until you make it. That’s my new mantra. Start a sentence and you’ll make a paragraph. Keep going and soon there will be a page, maybe more. I don’t feel alive if I’m not writing, creating some new world, inhabited by flawed, challenged people. Stop looking for answers, just get to work. It’s successful in any situation, not just writing. No more complaining, it’s the beginning of my new year. Forget January and February. They were just test months. The real year is just starting. HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVERYBODY!

Events

Author talk /WHERE DO I GO
Sherman Oaks Library

October 1, 6:30pm

 

“Women Made A Difference”
Discussion about women’s roles in three eras
Stephen Wise Temple

December 13, 10:30am

 

Reading for the “No Rules Book Club,”
San Diego, CA

January, 9, 2017

 

Discussion with “Dine and Discuss,” women’s group,
Los Angeles, CA

January 25, 2017

Beverly signing & selling books

LA Times Book Fest
USC Campus
Noon-2pm, April 12 at Booth 953
(the Greater LA Writers Society booth)

 

Authors Panel,
May 8, 2014 6pm

Platt Branch, Los Angeles Public Library
23600 Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA
Beverly will read and discuss SOWN IN TEARS

 

“Big Orange Book Fair”

Chapman University,
1 University Drive, Orange, CA
Authors Pavilion
October 12, 13, 2013

Duarte Book Festival,

October 5
Sponsored by the Friends of Duarte Library, 10am-4pm
Westminster Gardens
1040 Santo Domingo Avenue,
Duarte, CA (just past Pasadena)

SOWN IN TEARS

Featured on RedRoom (www.redroom.com) the week of September 16, along with a guest blog.
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Reading/Signing – 2 Book Clubs

Palos Verdes, CA
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4pm
Vromans Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA

 

March 2, 2013

Grand Avenue Park Book Festival (downtown LA)
Book signing/reading

 

November 5, 2012

Book reading/signing
Westwood Library
1246 Glendon (near corner of Westwood & Wilshire Blvd) at 6pm.

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