Vickey Kalambakal - May 21, 2012
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I n May, local writer and Southwest Manuscripter Vickey Kalambakal will talk about writing, publishing, and her new historical novel Death Speaker.Vickey originally joined the Manuscripters when we met over at the Pacific Inn. She left a routine 9-to-5 aerospace job in the late 1990s to go back to school and earn a master's degree in history. Over the past dozen years she's written for magazines like Westways, Arizona Highways, and Boys' Life, and contributed articles to 15 volumes of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. On the academic side, she's authored articles and chapters for textbooks and encyclopedias. 
Vickey will talk about book writing and offer some suggestions. She'll discuss what self-publishing entails in 2012, and--time permitting--will mention a few marketing tips.As for her new book, written under the pen name Vickey Kall . . . Death Speaker tells the story of Emyn, a Celtic peasant who possesses a gift at once terrifying and rare: she hears the dead. Spirits warn her of Caesar and his legions who rampage through her homeland seeking power, gold, and slaves. But the ghosts can only talk, and they don't always tell the truth. In the end, Emyn must rely on her own stubborn courage to meet her destiny. May 21st, 2012 See you on Monday, May 21, 2012 at our regular meeting place, the Palos Verdes Peninsula Library on Silver Spur Road just East of Hawthorne Blvd. and the mall. |
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