Piecing together Yuba City, Hollywood, and Napa:

Co-creating a Memoir

Napa Valley Writers will feature actress Charlotte Stewart and writer Andy Demsky on Wednesday, October 12 from 7-9 p.m. Charlotte Stewart, a veteran actor of TV and film, worked with writer Andy Demsky to write her memoir Little House in the Hollywood Hills, published by Bear Manor Media in 2016. Stewart and Demsky will discuss their process for creating the book, offering approaches that worked for them to write and publish a successful memoir.

Charlotte Stewart is a celebrated film and television actor, widely known as beloved schoolteacher Miss Beadle on Little House on the Prairie, as well Mary X in David Lynch’s cult classic, Eraserhead, and as Betty Briggs in Lynch’s iconic TV series, Twin Peaks. She has worked with leading men from Jimmy Stewart and Elvis Presley to Kevin Bacon and Kyle MacLachlan. Today she makes her home in Napa and throughout the year enjoys attending fan events.

Andy Demsky is a writer who has co-written A Vineyard in Napa with Doug Shafer and Little House on in the Hollywood Hills with Charlotte Stewart. Most recently he wrote Unleash Your Inner Tudor, a mock-self-help book written in the voice of Henry VIII, based on Demsky’s popular Twitter account: @KngHnryVIII