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Monthly Meeting Announcements

All meetings are on the 4th Monday of the month at the County Health Facility located at 3851 Rosecrans Street in the Sports Arena area.

Mon. Aug. 23 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) The San Diego Writers/Editors Guild will have its 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 and 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/Editors Guild. Linda Meckler can be contacted at (619)-303-8864 or (619) 504-2486. Her website is at http://www.lindamecklerauthor.com.

Mon. Sept. 27 — (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) The San Diego Writers/Editors Guild will have its monthly meeting with Barbara Field, speaking on 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? Learn about different career paths and a variety of ways to market yourself. 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.

About Ms. Field:  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 been 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.

Meeting for the rest of the year are listed on the Announcements page.