On site at Bona Fide Books HQ, Oct. 14-16, award-winning author Todd Borg offers his acclaimed workshop, “The Hook, The Twist, and the Cliffhanger: What Works, and What Doesn’t in Entertainment Fiction”. For details and information on how to sign up, go online. All Bona Fide Books events feature entertainment, peculiarities and wholesome libations. Bona […]
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Writer and guest instructor Nicole Banas will teach a class Oct. 8 from 10am-1pm called “Using the Techniques of Film in Your Fiction,” a how-to workshop on integrating film techniques into fiction writing. This three-hour genre-bending class is designed to strengthen your writing. The cost is $25. It is at Bona Fide Books in Meyers. […]
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On Oct. 7 at 7pm, Philadelphia poet and writer Jason Schossler, winner of the inaugural Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, will read from his collection “Mud Cakes,” as part of the LTCC Writers Series. The reading is at the LTCC library in South Lake Tahoe. It is appropriate for all ages. All Bona Fide Books […]
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For those just breaking into writing for publication, check out Publishing 101 on Sept. 19 from 7-9pm at Bona Fide Books headquarters in Meyers. Wyatt will lead a session on everything you need to know to begin submitting your work, including identifying your target market, writing a query letter that will get you noticed, preparing […]
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Cold and Trout Creek Community Forum is Sept. 13 from 5:30-7:30pm at Sierra House Elementary School in South Lake Tahoe. It’s an opportunity to learn about water quality and defensible space projects going on in the neighborhood.
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All roads leading to Yosemite National Park are open. Firefighters continue to battle the blaze that was started by a motor home a week ago. The fire as of Thursday morning was 85 percent contained. It had charred 5,231 acres outside the park. Full containment is expected this weekend. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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The monthly TAMBA trail work day for September will be on the highly respected (and used) Toads/Saxon Creek Trail. The section of trail to be worked on is in the upper portions along the rock gardens. No new alignments will be built, but the technical downhill rock lines will be kept in place, tightened up, […]
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By Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times The lawyer son of a former top California pension fund official was convicted on charges related to a scheme to have a client lie to a federal grand jury in exchange for cash. Alfred Nash Villalobos, 46, of South Lake Tahoe faces up to 30 years in prison after […]
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A Lake Tahoe company is one of 10 firms recalling containers of gel fuel after federal investigators said the product is responsible for two deaths and nearly three dozen serious burn injuries from flash fires. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission launched an investigation into gel fuels in mid-June. About 2 million containers of the […]
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• South Lake Tahoe author Todd Borg is conducting a workshop called “The Hook, the Twist, and the Cliffhanger” Oct. 14-16. Go online for more details. • Chili sales at Coyote Grill in Round Hill on Sept. 29 starting at 5pm will benefit Soroptimist International Tahoe Sierra. • Joanna Mitchell, who has been serving as […]
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