Chet Baker: Always Looking for the Light
by Artt Frank –
Available on Amazon
Chet Baker: Always Looking for the Light
California Crime Writers Conference 06/08/2019 – 06/09/2019
Valerie C. Woods – Author, Publisher/Editor, Writing Coach, Writer Producer
Looking forward to participating with this wonderful panel of TV Drama Writers.
Stay turned for a recap following the event!
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Queen Sugar Season 4 Premiere
Valerie C. Woods – Author, Publisher/Editor, Writing Coach, Writer Producer
We premiere June 12th!
Be sure to tune in!
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Writers Room for Season 4 of Queen Sugar
Valerie C. Woods – Author, Publisher/Editor, Writing Coach, Writer Producer
Thrilled to be part of the extraordinary Writers Room for Season 4 of Queen Sugar! Time has flown these past 8 months.
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Reel Sisters: Our Stories. Our Medicine In Conversation
with Ericka Huggins 10/20/2018
View an excerpt from the Interview with Ericka Huggins:
Reel Sisters Lecture Series & Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting will present:
Our Stories. Our Medicine.
In Conversation with Ericka Huggins
Moderated by Valerie Woods
Sisters in Crime/LA – 10/07/2018
Join us at the next Chapter Meeting of Sisters in Crime with guest speaker Valerie C. Woods. The topic: Screenwriting Dialogue Tips Novelists Can Steal!
Rewriting the Story: Understanding and Crafting Authentic Muslim Narratives
Front Row, l-r: Dan Milano – (Robot Chicken, Greg the Bunny), Valerie C. Woods – (Any Day Now, Soul Food)
Middle Row, l-r: Salam Al-Marayati – MPAC, President, Sohrab Noshirvani – (Dry River Road, Junkyard Dogs),Y. Shireen Razack – (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, Haven), Sue Obeidi – MPAC Hollywood Bureau, Director
Back Row, l-r: Cherien Dabis – (Empire, Quantico), Chris Keyser – (Party of Five, The Last Tycoon, Tyrant)
The The Writers Guild Foundation and the Hollywood Bureau of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) present a discussion on creating more authentic representations of Islam and Muslims in film and television. The panel will be moderated by Valerie C. Woods.
See the article from The Hollywood Reporter – Industry Panel Suggests Ways to Better Represent Muslims in Film and TV.
WGF Panel – 01/13/2017
Panelists (l-r): Monica Macer (Queen Sugar, OWN), Shernold Edwards (Hand of God, Amazon), Dawn Kamoche (Sharp Objects, HBO), Dee Harris-Lawrence (Star, FOX), Valerie Woods (Soul Food, Showtime)
The Writers Guild Foundation event, co-sponsored by Stephens College MFA in Television and Screenwriting on January 13, 2017, was a great success. The panel, moderated by writer and BooksEndependent publisher, Valerie C. Woods, engaged the participants with their wisdom, humor and real-world advice on the evening’s topic – “Writing Outside the Color Lines: Women Writers of Color or Storytelling and Perspective”. A lively Q&A following the discussion extended the evening past its scheduled ending time.
Thanks to Chris Kartje and Enid Portuguez at the WGF, and Ken LaZebnik and Khanisha Foster of Stephens College for a wonderful evening!
Publisher’s Spotlight – J.M. Kay
The great thing about being a micro publisher is the joy of finding a piece of writing that stimulates your imagination, startles visions in your mind and stuns your heart with sparks of simple wonder. And then, you get to publish it!
The first I knew of J.M. Kay’s science fiction novel, Under the Shadow: Children of the First Star, Volume 1 was listening to Mr. Kay read aloud during an evening writer’s group. The language captured me with the delight of hearing an entirely new perspective on being lost in space. The protagonists, 13-year-olds, Jason and Daniel, have been accidently abducted by an alien being. With the travel sequence already underway and no means of reversing its course, the human boys are in need of space suits or they will not survive:
“Jason stepped onto the metal sheet, as curious as he was frightened as to how this was going to keep him alive. Almost instantaneously, Jason’s feet felt warm, like he’d dipped into a temperate bath. He looked down to discover that the flat sheet of solid metal had liquefied into a large blob, held together by surface tension. The fluid snaked its way up his body, conforming to his shape, but Jason felt no foreign material or any added weight.
Then without warning, the liquid metal poured into his mouth and down his throat. Jason gagged and flailed about as he felt the metal fill him from within. Though there was no heat scalding his innards, he was aware of the substance like an itch he had no power to scratch. The sensation intensified, and Jason clawed at his mouth to pry away the viscid metal. Just when the itch became intolerable, the sensation abated, leaving a dull heaviness he couldn’t describe.
A voice that sounded like rustling leaves spoke to Jason from within … There was a bizarre intelligence to the voice, and he knew as surely as his brain was hearing understandable words, his other organs, muscle and bone were being talked to in languages that they too could interpret.
“What do you need?” the voice asked, like a doctor examining a patient. He tried to answer, but was stopped by a gentle clutching of the substance on the exterior of his body. The answer instead emerged from his organs and blood, his sinew and bone, and deeper still to the elements and molecules that made these things: water, oxygen, proteins, enzymes, triglycerides, polypeptides, amino acids, metabolized energy … the essential needs of his existence emanated from him as an interlocking code of sensations, instructing the suit that now surrounded him inside and out, on how to keep him alive.”
I was hooked right then and there. And I’m looking forward to Volume II!
posted by Valerie C. Woods
on May, 06