*UPDATE* this program is being postponed for a later date due to low attendance. Please stay updated for the reschedule!

On Thursday’s starting 9/26 thru 10/31 from 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm in the Granite Bay Library Community Room. This course is open to the community and is free.

To Register contact Pamela Dallas at 916-789-0326 or via email at pamela.dallas@eskaton.org

Instructor: Susan Gibbs
www.ilanguagescalifornia.weebly.com

Susan Gibbs has been teaching Foreign Languages (French, German, Italian, Latin) and English as a Second Language for over 30 years.

She graduated from the University of Metz, France with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and American Literature and Linguistics.

Many of you have already met her as she was the Instructor for the recent Italian workshops coordinated at the Library in August.

Susan has been teaching privately in the Granite Bay and surrounding areas for over 20 years and also volunteers at her church and in the community.

Writing! Where do you start?

There are no rules other than that the story has to be interesting. It can be exciting, scary, fun, funny or sad — but it must not bore the reader. So how do you make a choice of characters, setting, plot, vocabulary and sounds? How do you keep a story idea small and focused? How do you put your text together, proofread and edit?

During the last workshop you’ll meet author Elaine Russell

Elaine Russell is the author of fiction for adults and children, including short stories and the middle grade adventure series martin McMillan and the Lost Inca City and Martin McMillan and the Secret of the Ruby Elephant. Her novel Across the Mekong River was a finalist in the Carolina Wren Press 2010 Doris Bakwin Award, the Maui Writer’s Conference 2003 Rupert Hughes Prose Writing Competition, and the Focus on Writers 2001 Friends of the Sacramento Library Awards. The book won four 2013 independent publishing awards. She has written articles and spoken at conferences on the history of Laos and the aftermath of the second Indochina War. She currently lives with her husband in Sacramento, California and on Kauai in Hawaii.

Visit her website: https://www.elainerussell.info/