Joan Gelfand/Thank You
December 07

Joan Gelfand/Thank You

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Thank you for 2018! Now, let's get ready for 2019 with Free Stuff!

 

 

To all of my subscribers and readers thank you! For a year of support and friendship, for telegraphing your news to us, for fighting the good fights that you are all fighting, and for being.

Xoxo to a season of peace and hope

See Free stuff below – Holiday Gift Giveaway!

DECEMBER 2018
My YouTube channel is ready for prime time. Take a look please and “like” & subscribe too!

Thanks and HUGS to Dana Walden who got the ball rolling and Jess Weber.

“Fear to Shred,” my novel set in a Silicon Valley startup was sold to Mastadon Press!

Will launch at AWP in March in Portland! More news coming!

 
 
 
 
 
 

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

-Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963) Abraham Joshua Heschel

NEW NEWS & GIVEAWAYS!
We’ve hit 25 reviews! THANK YOU! CLICK HERE to leave your review.

Did you write a review? Then throw your hat in the ring for: Holiday Giveaways!

SIX HOLIDAY GIFT GIVEAWAYS


One (1) Copy of “Dreams and the Unexplainable” published by Chicken Soup for the Soul

Two (2) copies of “Seeking Center” mailed, autographed

One (1) Graphic for “Ode to Toast”

*Winners chosen at end of the month* 


“You Can Be a Winning Writer" goes to Europe and on the bookshelves
At Bertrand’s books in Lisbon, the oldest bookseller in Portugal



 

 


IN THE GOOD NEWS DEPARTMENT –

  • TWO candidates who we supported – Josh Harder and Sharice Davids won their seats to help with the light blue wave. Whew!
  • Kudos to Susan Stanger who connected with a phone bank in Marin and made Sunday afternoon phone calls.
  • And to Jeff Gottesman who got out on the streets.
  • Also, to our friend Debra Cleaver who founded Vote.org Taylor Swift turned the tide when she encouraged her fans to vote. Vote.org registered over a million voters.

IN THE LITERARY NEWS DEPARTMENT –



MARK YOUR CALENDAR! UPCOMING:
  • Dec. 10th – Teleseminar : NonFiction Authors Association
  • Dec. 16th – Author’s Showcase : WNBA @ Book Passage, Corte Madera | 2-4 pm
  • January 14th – Oaxaca Lending Library : Oaxaca Mexico

FURTHER:

  • Feb. 13-16th – San Francisco Writers Conference
  • Feb. 23rd – North Beach Library :  Workshop : You Can Be a Winning Writer : FREE and open to the public: 1-2:30 PM

VIEW OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS BY CLICKING HERE.

NEW PUBLICATIONS:






Fire and Rain : An Eco Poetry Anthology
Published by Scarlett Tanager Press
"Russian River Watershed"


ECO poetry delivers! - Fire and Rain

Buy the book from your indie bookstore or Small Press Distribution!

Included are former US Poet Laureate Bob Haas, Lucille Lang Day, Ruth Nolan, Ellen Bass, Rebecca Foust, Gary Snyder with a foreword by Dana Goia.

I am honored to have two poems included: “Cobra Plant” and “Russian River Watershed”
 


IN THE COMMUNITY: CONGRATULATIONS!

  • Jack Foley in BEAT Magazine
  • Connie Post wins Liakoura Prize 2018 for “Dancing with Father”
  • Mary Mackey wins Women’s Spirituality Prize & Featured in WNBA SF newsletter
  • Renate Stendhal wins “Best Book” prize
  • Andrena Zawinski : Salon member Ellaraine Lockie’s poem “For Sale" and Andrena Zawinski's “Open Skate” appear at San Jose Poetry Center’s online CAESURA literary magazine with work forthcoming in the print edition.

 
BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!:

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx


I recommend:



PHOTO ALBUM:


Chanterelle season
Walking Market Paris | Nov 6 


The grooviest Tesla charging station ever in Kettleman City, CA
It’s solar powered! 


Book Passage Ferry Plaza Nov. 14th
 

@ Book Passage next to one of my heroes- Nathan Englander



Ready to be painted & fired
Pottery shopping in Portugal 


In Lisbon @ The Pink Plaza


Bertrand's


Fire and Rain : Ecopoetry of California 
Featured "Cobra" & "Russian River Watershed"


The Douro Valley - Portugal
Vines climb the mountainsides 
A UNESCO World Heritage site 


A drizzly but magical day in Paris
w/ lunch @ ChezJanou 
 

xoxo
In this time of crisis and conflict I send you Reiki energy for moments of peace and tranquiity.

 

 To a better 2019.

- Joan
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