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SF Peninsula (Hybrid): An Unconventional Path to Publishing
March 19, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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March Meeting Live & Online
Saturday, March 19th, 10 am – 12 pm
Registration for this meeting is required (use button below).
Redwood City Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Ct., Redwood City, CA 94063
10:00 AM – Mingle in breakout rooms with fellow writers
Breakout rooms open at 10… join when you want.
10:30 AM – Club business
11:00 AM – Speaker: Ron Katz (see below)
Note that our main meeting and Think Tank are shifted slightly later to accommodate speaker availability. |
An Unconventional Path to Publishing
Ron Katz started writing The Sleuthing Silvers series—featuring a Baby Boomer detective couple–after four decades as a trial lawyer. A Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of the Harvard Law School, in 2016 he was a Fellow at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute. Before starting to write fiction at age 74, he published over 100 professional and academic articles.There are many obstacles to becoming a mystery writer at age 74. Ron’s “strategy” was to ignore them. The result so far has been 12 stories about a baby boomer detective couple—the sleuthing silvers—at the website www.thesleuthingsilvers.com. They have over 3400 followers on Facebook and have attracted the interest of two young screenwriters, who are writing a pilot to be submitted to streaming services. Ron has been interviewed on NBC radio, has been featured in the local press and has been a judge for the Shamus Award—given by the Private Eye Writers of America—for the best short story. Ron will talk about his unconventional path in what he perceives is a very staid publishing industry.
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