Berkeley Member Websites and Books

Susan Alcorn

Susan Alcorn's books are about backpacking and long-distance hiking here and abroad. She has
completed the John Muir Trail and more than 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. She has walked across Spain on the Camino de Santiago and hiked hundreds of miles on the LePuy route in France. Susan maintains a website dedicated to classic trail books. www.backpack45.com

• Camino Chronicle: Walking to Santiago— Finalist for the 2007 Ben Franklin Award for Best Travel Essay
• We're in the Mountains, Not Over the Hill: Tales and Tips From Seasoned Women Backpackers —Winner of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Award for the 2005 Best Travel/Adventure Book

Lucille Bellucci

Lucille Bellucci takes the best, and sometimes the worst, of her experiences in each of the countries where she has lived and makes books out of them. www.lucillebellucci.com

• The Snake Woman of Impanema
• The Year of Rat
• Journey from Shanghai
• A Rare Passion 
• Stone of Heaven

Jody Weiner

Jody Weiner was born and raised in Chicago, IL, where his thirty-year legal career began. After a decade spent defending criminal cases in many state and federal courts, Weiner settled in California to begin his writing career and practice civil law (in no particular order). www.prisonersoftruth.com

• Prisoners of Truth   
• Kinship with Animals   

Claire V. Korn

• Alternative American schools: Ideals in Action
• Michigan State Parks: Yesterday Through Tomorrow
• Flashes and Lies: A Novel  

Gail Judd

• The Patriot—A first novel combining the author's love of politics, her experience as a consultant and Internet strategist for IBM and others, and her concern for the digital invasion of privacy.

Marc Paul Kaplan

Marc Paul Kaplan, lifetime skier and an avid outdoorsman, is a successful businessman in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Over the Edge  

Ione Kramer

Ione Kramer spent 30 years in China and has published many articles about her experiences. She published her 1990 nonfiction book about the science and cultural history of Chinese tea.

• All the Tea in China (with Kit Chow)

Ray Faraday Nelson

Ray Nelson is a Science Fiction author and cartoonist, well known for his art work from the golden age of Science Fiction fandom in the 1940s and '50s, up to the present day. www.raynelson.com

• Timequest
• The Ecolog  
• Then Beggars Could Ride  
• Dogheaded Death, an historical mystery novel 
• The Prometheus man

Howard Sodja

Radicalized by the Cuban revolution, Howard has had dual careers in social work and political activism. He has written an autobiography about his experiences in radical politics. He has also written a number of practical, hands-on articles about his interests in amature radio and aviation. www.howmanyroads.com

• How Many Roads?

Kathleen Wilson

• Uplifting the South: Mary Mildred Sullivan’s Legacy for Appalachia
• Textile Work from Appalachia: The Quiet Work of Women

Member CDs

Gently Touching on the Life of the Yahi, Ishi

Arline B. Lawrence has a CD for sale entitled Gently Touching on the Life of the Yahi-Ishi, a sound recording of poetry in the Ina Coolbrith Circle collection. Arline has lectured on the subject at historical societies in the Sierra communities. The State Library in Sacrameto has given honors to the CD.

To order the CD, send a check for $20 to:

Arline B. Lawrence
6759 Ishi Drive
Magalia, CA 95954-9745

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State and Branch Websites

• Statewide : www.calwriters.com

• Mt. Diablo Branch, : Mt_Diablo_Branch

• Marin Branch, : www.marinwriters.com

• South Bay Writers Branch: www.southbaywriters.com

• Inland Empire : http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/iecwc

• East Sierra:  East Sierra Branch 

• Monterey: Central Coast Branch

• South San Francisco:  Peninsula Branch

• Santa Rosa: Redwood Branch

• Rancho Cordova: Sacramento Branch

• South SF Bay Area:  South Bay Branch 

• Fullerton: Orange County Branch   

• Sherman Oaks: San Fernando Valley Branch

• Bakersfield Branch:  The Writers of Kern County a tidy little site, snug as a bug!

• Apple Valley:  High Desert Branch

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