Joining the SCWC for her first time is Samantha Bremekamp, a rising star of New York’s Marisa Corvisiero Literary. Very much a hands-on agent, expanding her list, she’s interested in children’s, middle grade, young adult and new adult fiction. While open to any genre within those cate[Click For The Rest...]

Writing can be a long, lonely slog. So often one works in isolation for such extended periods of time–conceptualizing a viable idea, crafting a first draft and winnowing it into a taught pile of pages worthy of submission to those who may be willing to represent and pitch it to [Click For The Rest...]

Busy couple of months for SCWC authors. Those with new titles released, or due out shortly, include Darlene Quinn, whose fifth installment of her routinely award-winning “Webs” series, Conflicting Webs, just won the Beverly Hills International Book Awards for General Fiction. Judy Ree[Click For The Rest...]

Though not out until next month, Aline Ohanesian’s debut novel, Orhan’s Inheritance, is already dropping large. A Barnes & Noble 2015 Discover Great New Writers Pick, an American Booksellers Association’s no. 1 choice for its April 2015 Indie Next Great Reads List, and Libra[Click For The Rest...]

With San Diego 29 a mere two weekends past, we turn attention to September’s Irvine event. Our first Special Guest Speaker to announce is literary nonfictionalist Roseanne Montillo. The follow-up to her sensational The Lady and Her Monsters, which tells the lurid tale of how Mary Shel[Click For The Rest...]

For our 13th annual “LA” event we’ll actually remain in The O.C., but with one major change: we’re going back to where we once belonged—Irvine! Specifically, the newly refurbished, excellent hotel that fit the SCWC so well so many years back, before the move to Newport Beach. The prop[Click For The Rest...]

What a wonderful weekend for writers. And what wonderful writers they were. Typically, as the SCWC is renowned for instead of being a scattershot “Writing 101” event but one that addresses several specific levels above the basics, we get a lot of quality storytellers attending. This t[Click For The Rest...]

Author, workshop leader, singular songstress and overall embodiment of a true SCWCer Janis Thomas will be joining us in Newport Beach, as usual. What promises to be yet another uniquely laugh-out-loud romp, Say Never is her latest release, out October, marking the departure from her l[Click For The Rest...]

Joining us for the first time is Tom Zoellner, co-author of the New York Times bestselling An Ordinary Man, mesmerizing autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who turned Rwana’s luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu re[Click For The Rest...]

Joining us for the first time as a Special Guest Speaker, celebrated writer, performer, musician, and educator Ryka Aoki, recipient of a University Award from the Academy of American Poets. Author Robert Morgan (Gap Creek) calls her He Mele A Hilo (A Hilo Song)—out August 26th from To[Click For The Rest...]