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WNBA/LA Newsletter - November 2015
November 18, 2015 at 5:18 PM
Terri [email protected]
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From our President
Dear WNBA/LA Chapter Members,
As 2015 comes to end, I want to take
the time to thank everyone for making
this a fantastic year for our chapter!
From our inspirational LA Writers
Conference in March to our absolutely
delightful Literary Tea last weekend,
this entire year has been a highlight for
me as president. It wouldn't have been
as amazing without my wonderful board and inspirational
chapter members.
I've learned a lot and we've accomplished so much together! It
is fitting, then, that we celebrate our 40th anniversary, as a
chapter, this year. We'll be marking that anniversary with a
dinner in December, so please look out for the invite! I would
be honored to have you attend and celebrate with me.
I hope to see you soon.
Dates to Remember:
Dec. 4: Book Signing-Alva Sachs
Dec. 13: 40th Anniversary Dinner
Thank You Generous Donors!
Sincerely,
Rachelle Yousuf, Chapter President
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Cynthia Levin
Rozanne Fischer
Alma Hudson
Chapter News
Sponsoring Members
Margaret Karlin
Allison Cohen
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POEM? READY FOR A CONTEST? READ ON!
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organization, or agency that
desires to make an initial or
additional annual contribution to
the chapter.
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BOARD MEMBERS
WNBA/LA Executive Board
President:
Rachelle Yousuf
Vice President:
Liz Donatelli
Corresponding Secretary:
Cynthia Levin
Recording Secretary:
Kaleigh Tuso
Treasurer:
Suzanne Kleinbub
Immediate Past President:
Ruth Light
Committees and
Representatives
Membership Chairs:
Suzanne Kleinbub and
Ruth Light
Graphic Designer:
Cheyenne Yousuf
Social Media Chair:
Danielle Olson
Auditor:
Holly Shaffer
Judy Lopez Award Liaison:
Meg Flanders
Newsletter Editors:
Editor:
Ruth Light
Member News Editor:
Jovita Jenkins
The Bookwoman Coordinator:
OPEN
WNBA/LA Web Mistress:
Terri Negron
Members at Large:
Ruth Garcia-Corrales
Rosalind Myatt
Joan Slottow
Jeff Slottow
Open Positions:
* Hospitality
* Parliamentarian
* Publicity
* Development Chair
* Special Events Chair
WRITING CRITIQUE GROUP SEEKS NEW MEMBER
We are looking for new members for the Women's National Book
Association-sponsored writer's critique group.
Candidates should be:
• An experienced writer actively working on a book or short
stories and moving toward publication
• Committed to reading submissions from three or four members
the week before each meeting; emailing possible suggestions to
the writers; and discussing them at the meeting.
• Committed to attending meetings every two weeks on Friday
from 12:30 to 3 p.m.
• Our meeting location is at the home of one of our members in
Westwood.
Some of our current members: Alexia, Joan, Marge and Ellen!
Chapter president, Rachelle Yousuf, and
chapter vice president, Liz Donatelli,
publicized the benefits of WNBA membership
during the 805 Writers Conference in Ventura.
Did We Have Fun? HOLY AMAZING TOUR OF DC
ENTERTAINMENT!
Our chapter president, Rachelle Yousuf, through her
connections to the WNBA New York City Chapter, organized
a tour of DC Entertainment (previously known as DC
Comics). Tom Dimascio, Supply Chain Management and
Logistics Director for DC Entertainment, met a small group of
us and ushered us through the beginnings and development
of Superman, Batman, Iron Man, the Hulk, Spiderman,
Storm, etc. In the first picture, you see Batman with the
Yousuf Terrific Trio (Sam, Rachelle, and Cheyenne), and in
the next picture Sam is on the left, and Tom is in the white
shirt. In the last picture Cheyenne plays Superhero chess!
We are in Tom's office, which, like every other office we saw,
has about a zillion action figure toys in it. Tom walked us
through the many steps to publication of comic books,
magazines, and books. Holy Super Fun! We had a great
time!
National Reading Group Month...at diesel, A BOOKSTORE
For the second year in a row diesel was the host bookstore for
our annual NRGM celebration. For NRGM we celebrate authors
and the joy of shared reading, and this year's authors were Aline
Ohanesian (Orhan's Inheritance), Meg Waite Clayton (The Race
for Paris), and Rachel Howzell Howe (Skies of Ash). With
insightful questions from Rachelle Yousuf, our moderator, the
authors intrigued the audience with answers about their book's
characters and the process of writing.
MEMBER BENEFIT-------For only $30.00 per year, either your book cover can be on
rotation on the national WNBA website…OR your business’s
website can be listed on the national WNBA website…or
both! One big benefit is that doing this improves your SEO
(Search Engine Optimization) for driving people to your
website. Go to www.wnba-books.org/promotion/program to
sign up!
Big Honor for WNBA/LA Board of
Directors Member Ruth GarciaCorrales!!
Ruth was honored at a ceremony on
November 8 by the League of Women
Voters. She is the 2015 recipient of the
Civic Service Leadership Award!
Congratulations, Ruth!
MILESTONE!
The Los Angeles Chapter of the Women's
The Los Angeles Chapter of the Women's
National Book Association turns 40 years
old this year!! We will celebrate that big
number on Sunday, December 13, in
Burbank at the Canyon Grille. We hope to
see all of our chapter members
there.....plus friends and family and
people who are interested in the chapter!
SAVE the DATE! Look for your official invitation in your inbox
soon.
2015 Great Group Reads Selections:
Every year, the Great Group Reads Selection Committee—made
up of WNBA members across the nation—put together a list of
recommended books for reading groups and book clubs. This is
done in celebration of National Reading Group Month, an initiative
created by the WNBA to promote the joy of shared reading. Find
out more about NRGM and the GGR list here. Check out this
year's list below!
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Call Me Home by Megan Kruse
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Dietland by Sarai Walker
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Henna House by Nomi Eve
Landfall by Ellen Urbani
Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a
Man by Thomas Page Mcbee
Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Jonathan Odell
No. 4 Imperial Lane by Jonathan Weisman
Orphan #8 by Kim Van Alkemade
A Perfect Crime by A Yi
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
A Sister to Honor by Lucy Ferriss
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North
Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
The Wonder Garden by Lauren Acampora
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Member News
Alva Sachs, Award-Winning children's
author, will be joining the Second Annual
Book Fair at Encino Charter Elementary. She
will be signing books and reading. Come join
us!
16999 Addison Street
Encino, CA 91316
Encino, CA 91316
Friday, December 4th, 2015
3:00-7:00pm
Lisa-Catherine Cohen stepped in to
become the co-leader of IWOSC's Westside
Satellite Group in July, as their longtime
leader left to help with the administration of
IWOSC. L-C scheduled Jeff Cohen to present
his The Compelling Voice workshop, which
was a huge success, and on November 12
the group welcomed the many-timespublished author, Samantha Dunn.
On Oct. 13th, Lisa-Catherine volunteered to
help Ruth Light organize 60 years worth of
WBNA files from her garage, and box it up to
be sent to New York. Now Ruth has her garage
back!
WNBA member Barbara Schiffman and
Deborah Louise Brown have launched
Coloring Journals for Healthy Living, a
unique multi-media coloring journal
publishing company. Their "2015 Heart's
Desire (Sept-Dec)" coloring journal
calendar has been well received and "2016
Heart's Desire" will be available on Amazon
in December. In 2016, they're adding
themed coloring journals, workbooks and coloring storybooks.
If you have a personal development book, workshop or idea
that lends itself to a coloring workbook, call Barbara (818-4153470) for info on their collaborative publishing and product
creation options. See their books on Amazon and get free
coloring pages at ColoringJournalsforHealthyLiving.com.
Dr. Chris L. Hickey, Sr. talks about her
book, From Watts to Wroclaw to Talk
about Fathers... "Over the last few
months I have had some of the most
extraordinary experiences I could have
imaged at this time in my short life as
an author. I have had the privilege of
traveling to Wroclaw, Poland and
Barcelona, Spain sharing stories and
theories collected in “Admired Man
Why?” On more than a few occasions,
when asked about the motivation of my
offering, I have explained to perspective
buyers of my book, from folks worldwide, that it was primarily
incited by my phenomenal experience growing up without my
father’s existence in my conscious life, and resulting “father
hunger.”"
Where are you reading...and What?
Chapter member and Newsletter Editor, Ruth Light, is
sitting on the built-into-the-granite-mountain patio in Camp
Amalinda, which is located in the Matobo Hills National Park,
Zimbabwe. She is reading Long Walk to Freedom, by (of
course!) Nelson Mandela.
UN Corner
A lot of big events happened around the world this year —
from scientific breakthroughs to natural disasters. Were you
paying attention?
UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories every day, and
we have to be experts in each one to get the job done. We
drew on all that knowledge to make our new Map It Out game
— so get ready for a real challenge.
So, what do you think? Ready to go head-to-head with our
experts?
Here’s the first question:
This April, Nepal experienced a devastating 7.8 magnitude
earthquake that killed more than 9,000 people.
The country is rebuilding — but there’s still a long way to go.
Can you find Nepal on the map?
Whether you are a News Novice or a Journalistic Juggernaut, I
bet you’ll be stumped by at least one or two questions. So play
Map it Out now, and see how you stack up:
https://www.unicefusa.org/map-it-out
Look for us in your inbox in mid-Jan., 2016...
And remember...an anagram is a word or phrase made by
rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
Here are a few good ones--The Morse Code...Here Come Dots
Slot Machines...Cash Lost in 'Em
Eleven Plus Two...Twelve Plus One
Do you have a good one? Send it to [email protected] for
inclusion in our next newsletter!
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