Thanks For A Great Workshop

Kate Matthews' Little Pink Book of Cancer Cartoons.

Thanks to everyone who came today to my Real World Writing Workshop and lunch - it was a really great lunchtime and afternoon, I hope we have many more like it.

Thanks especially to new participants such as Donna and Roberto Minighini, and to Kimberly Francis, Arlene Uslander and Brenda Warneka, Sydney Avey and Kristin Fulton, as well as all our returning regulars.

I would like to congratulate Kate Matthews on her publication of The Little Pink Book of Cancer Cartoons, Arlene Uslander and Brenda Warneka on The Mystery of Fate: Common Coincidence or Divine Intervention, and Kimberly Ann Francis on her highly recommended children's book, Payten and Nannie Ann - Painting Our Way Home.

I will be updating my email list and posting new material on box.com in the next few days. I hope you all find the online resources useful - please let me know at tranquilbuddha@gmail.com if you haven't received the link, and I will send it again.

The War Zone, Doubleday First Edition.

Thanks again to Yvonne and all the staff at the Starbucks at the Junction on Mono Way for very kindly providing coffee for the workshop - and to the staff at the Diamondback Grill, as well as to Connie, Linda and Lu Ann at the Central Sierra Arts Council, of course.

Warmest wishes,
Alexander

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