For more information about any of these events, e-mail Barbara

Listen to Barbara's weekly radio show, Wednesdays at 9 a.m. PT. Click on the radio tower on the home page for more information.

2008

July 12 A fun all-day workshop at UC-Irvine Extention: Jumpstart Your Writing. Call UC-Irvine at 949/824-5414 or visit the UCI Web site.

July 13 1:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Fashion Island, Newport Beach
Talk about essay writing and her essay, "Knitting: My Urban Escape," included in the anthology, Knitting Through It: Inspiring Stories for Troubled Times (Voyageur Press).

September 28 West Hollywood Book Fair
If you haven't attended the fair, don't miss out. It's a great people-watching day with great panels. Barbara will moderate a panel of literary agents in the afternoon. Click here for more information.

October 11 Celebration of California Writers Week
Join Barbara and other authors for a literary day at the Orange Public Library and History Center in Orange, CA. More information can be found here.

Barbara has appeared at various bookstores and venues up and down the California coast and on the East Coast: Sisters in Crime-OC chapter and Los Angeles chapter, Our Lady Queen of Angeles (spiritual journaling workshop), Central Coast Writers' Conference (2007), Manuscripts Literary Events Series at the Newport Beach Public Library, Romance Writers of America--San Diego Chapter and Orange County Chapter, Professional Business Women's Conference (Sacramento), Book Passage (Corte Madera), Powell's Books (Portland), West Hollywood Book Fair, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The ASJA Annual Writers Conference (New York City), Warwick's (La Jolla), Capitola Book Cafe (Santa Cruz), Dutton's Brentwood Books & Dutton's Beverly Hills, Book Soup (Costa Mesa), Vroman's (Pasadena), Earthsong Books (Del Mar), Barnes & Noble (Santa Monica, Aliso Viejo), Peppertree Bookstore (Palm Springs), Border's (Mission Viejo, CA; Rancho Mirage, CA; Montgomeryville, PA; Montclair, CA), The Grove (San Diego), UC-Irvine Town & Gown, Southern California Writers' Association, Touissant Center (San Diego), and Roundtable West (Newport Beach), AAUW-Laguna Beach Literary Luncheon and Long Beach Literary Luncheon, AAUW-Glendora authors day, Whittier Writers Club, Palm Springs Book Festival, PEN Women of Palm Springs.

Keynote at the 2005 Writers' One-on-One conference, Chicago; San Diego State University writers conference, 2005.

She has appeared on "Between the Lines," at PBS television broadcast, with Barry Kibrick; The Real Orange, KOCE; Diana Jordan's "Between the Lines" (AP Radio Network), and with VJ Hume (KWXY-AM, FM, Palm Springs). Her own radio broadcast, "Writers on Writing," airs weekly on KUCI-FM.

Co-chair, 2007 American Society of Journalists and Authors Annual Writers Conference and the UCI/ASJA Writers Conference