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We Make Writing Makes Us

Whittlesea U3A Writers' Group
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We Make Writing Makes Us greedy for the right words and the thrill of creating when we know we have done our best work. It epitomises the concept that when we express ourselves, we become ourselves.For those of us now having escaped the shackles of our working lives, we are now able to be our own masters in achieving our goals in the third trimester of our lives. We may now go where our imagination takes us.You will find inside the covers of this wonderful literary potpourri, a collection of special works by very talented people in their third age.A tongue-in-cheek comedy tale that takes us back to the court of King James I of England.A mouth-watering offering of sweet treats from eastern Europe in a mini-cook book presentation.Memoirs of life from the heart. Reflecting in many ways how to keep these memories alive and with us foreverScience fiction adventures from another space and time...and much much more.The collection relates feelings of joy and humour; of life and death; and everything in between. Our class encourages and teaches a variety of writing media, allowing the authors a freedom of expression in their works.The broad spectrum of works includes memoirs, short stories, poems, cookery, novel extracts and exercises undertaken during the Whittlesea U3A Creative Writing class.We know you will enjoy the variety of experiences that our senior Victorians have shared within these pages. The Whittlesea U3A Proudly presents We Make Writing Makes Us and its contributing AuthorsBlazenka Hrvojevic, Bryan (JBE) McNally, Don Langdon, Jan Marshall, Jenny Martin, Luigi Zucchet, Mark Reed, Maxine Danby, Miriam Zammit, Paul Hollander, Paul Murchison

Author Biography:

After 25 years as a Change Manager, Jan joined the WU3A Creative Writing Group in April 2017, and soon after joined the sister class E-Publishing. She successfully published Romance Scam Survivor: the whole sordid story in February 2018. From her many press interviews for her award-winning book she has become known as the victim advocate for scam victims, through her blog Romance Scam Survivor.Having learned that she loved writing, Jan has turned her hand to writing fantasy and sci-fi fantasy novels, mostly with a strong element of magick in them. She loves action scenes.As a WU3A tutor, Jan added the third class, Improving your Writing Craft and works closely with Bryan and his Creative Writing class on putting these improvements into practice. Bryan McNally is a published author whose subject matter transcends mainstream and edge taking thrills.His first two published books, The Vytautas Pursuit and The Eriksson Bequest have taken Jack Carpenter around the world and back in time to solve mysteries a day-to-day investigator couldn't possibly do.Jack, A combination of Mathhew Reilly's Jack West Junior and Steve Berry's Cotton Malone will have your head spinning from page one. Bryan's third Jack Carpenter novel, is due out in early 2024.Bryan was also a major contributor and co-editor of the Whittlesea U3A's first anthology, Throwing Caution to the Wind. A potpourri of writing that showcased the Creative Writing Group that Bryan has facilitated since 2017. media pigeonholing service, as a baby boomer. After graduating from university, he has lived on three continents and worked on four. During the last three decades he spent a quarter of his time travelling the world on business.His earlier forays into writing were technical papers, marketing blurb and a software manual.Now he has turned his innovative scientific mind to science fiction and created the politically incorrect satires called 'Pre Dot Blue Moon' and 'Pre Dot New Moon', books 1 and 2 in the Skuide trilogy. Book 3 in the series, 'Balsamic Dot Moon', will be available soon.
Release date Australia
September 16th, 2023
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Bryan McNally
  • Edited by Don Langdon
  • Edited by Jan Marshall
Pages
280
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780648233640
Product ID
38188036

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