Two Publishing Pros to Offer Fiction Writing Bootcamps throughout Southern California Two literary insiders have teamed up to help budding authors craft novels that will catch the eye of an agent and publisher. Shelly Lowenkopf and Toni Lopopolo began the bootcamps with small groups this past spring in the Santa Barbara/Ventura area. Now they are expanding to a larger area of Southern California, bringing their accumulated knowledge as...

VENTURA COUNTY BOOK & AUTHOR FAIR IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS (Ventura, CA – September 20, 2011) The Ventura County Book & Author Fair is looking for volunteers to help in a variety of positions for this year’s festival, to be held Saturday, November 5th at the Pleasant Valley Community Park Auditorium in Camarillo. The Festival is open to the public. The Pacific Institute for Professional Writing, producer of the event, is...

(Ventura, CA – September 76, 2011) Santa Barbara editor and author, Shelly Lowenkopf, will be a morning speaker at the Central Coast Book and Author Festival, to be held September 18 in San Luis Obispo. He will be speaking at 10:30 a.m. in the History Center of San Luis Obispo, 696 Monterey Street at the corner of Broad. After speaking, he will be available at the Book Festival to sign copies of his 30th book, The Fiction Lover’s...

(Ventura, CA – August 30, 2011) Two literary insiders have teamed up to help budding authors craft novels that will catch the eye of an agent and publisher. Shelly Lowenkopf and Toni Lopopolo began the bootcamps with small groups this past spring in the Santa Barbara/Ventura area. Now they are expanding to a larger area of Southern California, bringing their accumulated knowledge as Executive Editors with Macmillan, St. Martins, Bantam...

VENTURA COUNTY BOOK & AUTHOR FAIR LAUNCHED 2011 event to be held in Camarillo, November 5 (Ventura, CA August 16, 2011) A new literary event for writers, publishers, people looking for new books to read and those wishing to learn more about the craft of writing, will take place Saturday, November 5th at the Pleasant Valley Community Park Auditorium in Camarillo. The Ventura County Book & Author Fair will feature speakers, educational...

(Ventura, CA – March 21, 2011) After being moved out of two Borders locations as each closed, the Ventura County Writers Club has found a new home in the Pleasant Valley Senior Center in Camarillo, CA. Located inside the Community Center Park at 1605 Burnley, corner of Burnley and Carmen Drive, the Senior Center is the last building as one drives into the parking lot. “This has been a harrowing adventure as the club makes its third...