NOTICE: During this pandemic the Southwest Manuscripters has gone virtual. We will conduct on-line Zoom meetings from time to time to keep our members in touch and present guest speakers. See below for notices about the next Zoom meeting and information about past SWM Zoom Meetings. ![[IMAGE]](red-line-2.jpg){kind=small} . Alan Cook's Grandsons; Matthew Cook, who spoke on "Writing for the Voice and the Ear" and Mason Cook who spoke about "How Composing Music Is Much Like Writing" SWM Zoom Meeting - Aug. 2021 Participants: Desireé Duffy (Guest Speaker from "Black Château")) with Jeri Fonté (host) =================== SWM Zoom Meeting July 10, 2021 Faith Goldman 2 views Aug 13, 2021 The Southwest Manuscripters July 2021 Meeting with Guest Faith Goldman Faith Goldman has been writing to pen-pals since she was in high school. And then writing her thesis in grad school studying physical therapy brought her a degree. Faith practiced in a multitude of facilities since 1966 and, even though retired, she never has her P.T. hat off. But her most life-changing writing came in the form of pen-pal letters to a private 1st class stationed in Germany. Participants: Faith Goldman: Guest Speaker and Dan Lambert: (host) =================== SWM/Surfwriters Zoom Meeting June 5 2021 Alan Cook's Grandsons, Matthew and Mason Cook talk about "Writing for the Voice and the Ear" and "How composing music is much like writing," Matthew: "Books are written for the eye, but as a voice actor, my job is to "translate" words for the ears. To that end, I will talk about how I produce audiobooks and some of the considerations for how to properly narrate a title. Later, I will discuss my quiz show podcast, Trivia Over Tea, and how I write questions to help lead contestants to the right answers." Mason Cook, is a junior at Occidental College, majoring in music and music composition. He demonstrates how he composes music to fit a particular situation for films and television. "Trivia Over Tea" https://www.amazon.com/Trivia-Over-Te... www.matthewhylandcook.com matthewhylandcook@gmail.com Mason.a.cook62@gmail.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... https://open.spotify.com/show/3xaWeB3... ====================== 
A tremendous THANK YOU to Wanda (Mo) Miller, Aaron Roe, Dave Buckhout, J.D. Jahn, and Cameron Finch of Atmosphere Press for their amazing presentation at our April meeting! It was a fabulous use of the Zoom platform, to bring such talented writers together from such varied parts of the country! The video of their presentation, and of previous meetings, are available below. Regrettably, our scheduled May 1st speaker was not available due to an unforeseen medical procedure. He will be rescheduled as soon as possible. In lieu of a guest speaker, we opened the meeting up to a discussion of what writing projects, etc., attendees have been involved in during the pandemic situation. This particular meeting was not recorded.
The 2021 SWM Zoom Meetings are now online at YouTube Here are the Playlists and YouTube links: Playlist: To SWM Zoom Playlists for 2021 ----------- April: SWM Zoom Meeting April 2021 - YouTube The Southwest Manuscripters/Surfwriters Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 3, 2-4 p.m. Pacific Time, with a panel of four authors who have published books with Atmosphere Press. atmospherepress.com Or Click Here To Watch on YouTube ------------------- March: The previous Southwest Manuscripters/Surfwriters Zoom meeting was on Saturday, March 6, 2-4 p.m. Pacific Time, when our guest speaker was Doug Shepardson Doug Shepardson grew up in the suburbs of Boston, except for three years in his youth spent in Karachi, Pakistan. He has always had an interest in writing and wrote occasional commentary and music reviews for his college newspaper at the University of Massachusetts. Visit his web site here: dougshepardsonart.com And See his books Here Or Click Here To Watch on YouTube ------------------ SWM Zoom Feb 6 2021: In February's program we invited some of the library's current Anthology Program's participants, not just SWM members, who weren't chosen to be one of their readers, to do so at our meeting, February 6, 2021 at 2pm, in the below Zoom meeting Or Click Here To Watch on YouTube ------------------- January 2021: SWM January 9 2021Meeting - YouTube Our January 2021 meeting featured Jeri Fonte's interview with Brandie June. Ms. June loves storytelling in all sorts of formats, whether she is marketing animated movies or writing fantasy novels. Most of her early life she was on stage or at least as close to the front row as she could get. You can find out more about her at: www.brandiejune.com and follow her @brandiejune. Or Click Here To Watch on YouTube or here: SWM Zoom Jan. 2021
On April 6, 2021, the Palos Verdes Library District re-opened its interiors to the public under a limited Grab & Go model at all library locations. We're excited to welcome all of our patrons back into our buildings and look forward to seeing you soon! https://www.pvld.org/ Palos Verdes Library District A curated list of resources from technology help to health and wellness and more for seniors during the Covid-19 pandemic. www.pvld.org -------------------- The Los Angeles Public Library will offer limited in-person services at 38 library locations, including Central Library. Select library locations will offer quick browsing, computer use and our convenient Library To Go materials pick-up service. See: Rolling Reopening | Los Angeles Public Library English | Español. Beginning May 3, the Los Angeles Public Library will offer limited in-person services at the Central Library and 37 branch libraries across the city. Libraries will offer select services that may include quick browsing, computer access, pick up of holds and mobile printing orders, checking out of materials inside libraries, and Library To Go contactless pick up service. lapl.org https://lapl.org/reopening
  
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