Past Appearances

Barbara has appeared at various bookstores and venues up and down the California coast and on the East Coast: Celebration of California Writers Week (Orange, CA), 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, Newport Beach, 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