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November 12, 2016 Volume V, Issue 11

James Joyce(February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941)

PWR NewsletterI self-published

Ulysses!

Board Members CoordinatorsPresident: Duke Robinson Membership: Julie BladeVice President: Patricia Keith-Spiegel Channel 28: Joanna KrausSecretary: Diana Smith Featured Authors: Barbara KirbachTreasurer: Nazli Monahan Room Setup: Bud SissonPrograms: Ron Wren Archives: Sandy ForemanPublicity: Barbara Kirbach Website: Linda Arden Author Events Karl Livengood

Newsletter Editor: Paul Weisser

Board Member Backups Coordinator BackupsPresident: Patricia Keith-Spiegel Membership: Dorothy PritchettVice President: The Board Channel 28: Frances ChinSecretary: Barbara Kirbach Featured Authors: Diana SmithTreasurer: Frances Chin Room Setup: VacantPrograms: Vacant Archives: VacantPublicity: Ron Wren Website: Vacant Author Events Judy Dillingham

Newsletter Backup Editor: Vacant

A Club to Help Authors Publish and Promote Their Books

November 12, 2016 Volume V, Issue 11

Coming up!Our monthly PWR meeting

This Saturday, November 12, 2016From 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

In the Fairway Room at Creekside Clubhouse(Dues for this year are way past due!)

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Bob spent most of his career as a journalist writing about and for others. In 1971, he decided that “it was time to begin plastering my own name on my work, but it wasn’t easy.” He quit his day job and filled up the rest of the twentieth century publishing books from his home base in Honolulu.

In 2014, he published Fire Bone! A Maverick’s Guide to Life in Journalism, an unvarnished memoir of thrilling experiences with newspaper, magazine, and book publishers, plus the childhood and youthful love affairs that led up to them.

“I’ll try to explain,” Bob says, “how I beat the odds and became an expert in travel to Hawaii, and ultimately to many other parts of the world. I had more than a hundred rejections from a hundred publishers. But I kept thinking

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November’s Speaker: Bob Boneby barbara kirbach

Travel writer, photographer, and journalist Bob Bone, who has visited every continent and covered at least seventy-five countries for four decades, will share with his fellow PWR members how he published his first book and then turned it into a series of books and articles. Bob will be the guest speaker at our Saturday meeting on November 12th, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Fairway Room at Creekside. All Rossmoor residents, as well as all aspiring writers, are welcome to attend.

Barbara Kirbach

Bob Bone

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to myself, All I need is one. After more than a year of blank walls, I finally found the path that I needed.”

Program Chair Ron Wren says that he asked Bob to speak to the writers because he is an excellent example of the perseverance needed in the profession. “Writing can be a lonely, frustrating, and unappreciated life,” Ron says, “but Bob made it work.”

In 1968, Bob joined the late Temple Fielding, traveling extensively while working on the annual Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe and other Fielding books. He lived in Hawaii from 1972 to 2008 and became known in the publishing world for The Maverick Guides to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, and the Yukon.

Bob’s articles and photographs have also appeared in many national magazines, including Travel-Holiday, Travel and Leisure, and National Geographic Traveler. Besides the Chicago Tribune, many other respected newspapers have carried his stories on world destinations, including the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, and the San Jose Mercury News.

In 1990, Bob was the first alumnus to be inducted into the Journalism Hall of Fame by his alma mater, Bowling Green State University of Ohio. His official biography was carried annually for many years in Who’s Who in America.

(For more information on the program, contact Ron Wren at: ronwren@aol.com)

(For more information on PWR in general, visit the club’s website at www.rossmoor-writers.com)

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Duke Robinson

The President’s Pageby duke robinson

Last Saturday, November 5, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., for the first time ever, PWR authors sold their books under our banner at the annual Rossmoor Fall Bazaar. Twenty of us did it, divided into two 2.5-hour shifts.

An immediate nonscientific, nerve-ending check on the participants’ experiences, based on chatter, lots of smiles, and a few positive comments I happened to overhear, gave me the impression that we can consider the effort a success. The club got a good bump in visibility, and some of us enjoyed getting better acquainted, benefits we had hoped for. Most of us found it fun, and, yes, some even sold books. Not tons, but several, or a few, or one.

We can view this experiment as a success, due mainly to our vice president, Tricia Spiegel, who coordinated it with a sensitivity to our needs as authors and the necessary attention to details. She did everything

it takes to pull off something so new and unpredictable. Tricia interpreted the bazaar to us, highlighted the potential benefits, registered those who wanted to participate, scheduled them for the two time-frames, and reserved and paid for tables (with the elbow grease of Nazli Monahan), provided Barbara Kirbach with information to highlight in the Rossmoor News about our new involvement, and, on the day itself, was there to make things work smoothly, which they did.

Only those who have organized such a group activity can appreciate what an organizational task this was. We are indebted to Tricia for her hard work in making the idea work so well.

A number of PWR members stopped by to see and support us. On behalf of the participants, let me say, “It was great seeing you, and thank you.”

At our board meeting on November 17, with the help of Tricia and Nazli, we will evaluate the experiment and decide whether to make it an annual experience. If you have thoughts or feelings or suggestions about it, please e-mail me at dukenclaire@gmail.com, or Tricia at pkspiegel@comcast.net.

Whether or not you were able to visit us at the Fall Bazaar on Saturday, I hope you didn’t go to the Fairway Room at Creekside. See you there this Saturday, November 12, at 10:00 a.m. *

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PWR Featured Author of the Month: Jim Wareby barbara kirbach

Are you frustrated by unfocused, boring meetings? Do you feel your organization is stuck in an unproductive meeting trap? Making Meetings Matter: How Smart Leaders Orchestrate Powerful Conversations in the Digital Age, the recently published book by Jim Ware, PWR’s Featured Author for November, is all about reinventing business meetings.

Jim offers advice and guidance for streamlining and strengthening all kinds of corporate conversations, but he focuses on the formal meetings that fill up 50 percent of most managers’ calendars.

Although many Rossmoor residents are no longer active in the business world, they can still benefit from much of Jim’s advice in their club and other

organizational meetings. The book would also be of great benefit to those of their children who are currently making their way through the new economy.

A former professor at Harvard Business School, Jim has focused his entire career on understanding what organizations must do to thrive in a rapidly changing world. His business wisdom comes from deep academic knowledge and over thirty years of hands-on experience as a senior executive and an organizational change consultant.

Today, Jim works with organizational leaders to turn all those dull, boring meetings into highly engaging

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conversations. A passionate meeting design specialist, he has distilled decades of personal learning into an essential set of “new rules” for designing and leading meetings that matter.

Jim is the founder and executive director of Making Meetings Matter, a research and advisory firm. He has co-authored the following books about the digital economy and its implications for leadership and organizational performance: The Search for Digital Excellence; Corporate Agility: A New Model for Competing in a Flat World; Cut It Out! Build for Today, Save for Tomorrow; and Work on the Move: Driving Strategy and Change in Workplaces.

Jim holds Ph.D., M.A., and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University and an MBA (With Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. He and his wife, Cindy, moved to Rossmoor in 2013 after living in the Berkeley hills for seventeen years. They have two adult children, both of whom are also Californians.

Soon after settling into their new home on Skycrest Drive, Cindy and Jim joined forces with several other concerned Rossmoorians to launch Solar Powered Rossmoor (now Sustainable Rossmoor), an education and advocacy club that led the development of the Solar Array project that will soon be powering GRF facilities; sponsored Rossmoor’s first Earth Day event in 2016; and has hosted a number of public programs focused

on recycling, water conservation, landscaping, and alternative energy economics and politics.

Jim will celebrate the publication of Making Meetings Matter at a book launch party on Wednesday, November 16, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Dollar Clubhouse. PWR members are asked to RSVP to (925) 956-1795 or jim@makingmeetingsmatter.com by November 11.

More information about Jim and a copy of Making Meetings Matter will be available with his display in the Rossmoor Library throughout November. He will also be speaking briefly as Featured Author at our November 12th meeting. Copies of his book are available through Amazon at $20 and by contacting Jim at jim@makingmeetingsmatter.com/. *

(For more information about PWR’s Featured Author Program, contact Barbara Kirbach at blkirbach@gmail.com or visit our website at www.Rossmoor-writers.com)

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A Google search will confirm that Charlotte was a vegetarian—without, however, saying much more. *

Vegetarian Circleby gene gordon

Vegetarian Writer of the Month:Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë is listed in many sources as a vegetarian. She was the most ambitious of the literary Brontë sisters (Emily and Anne were the others).

Her semi-autobiographical novel Jane Eyre was a hit, and in fact became a literary classic. Charlotte’s other novels included Shirley and Villette.

Coincidently, a film about Charlotte and her sisters (and her alcoholic brother Branwell) was shown very recently on Turner Classic Movies. It starred Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë and Ida Lupino as her sister Emily. Although the film, Devotion, is fun to watch and contains enlightening material, there is no mention of vegetarianism in it.

Gene Gordon

Charlotte Brontë

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Carl Jung at the time, who after reading Ulysses is said to have concluded that her father had schizophrenia as well.

Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan later concluded, however, that Joyce’s writing was, in fact, what kept Joyce from psychosis. *

James Joyce, Self-PublisherJames Joyce is best known for Ulysses,

a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized.

Already a published poet and author, Joyce began serializing Ulysses in Ezra Pound’s The Little Review in 1918. After running afoul of obscenity laws, however, he self-published it in book form by collecting money from friends, fellow writers, and art patrons as subscriptions and pre-sales. The novel was not professionally published in the United States until 1933.

Throughout the 1930s, Joyce traveled frequently to Switzerland for eye surgeries and for treatments for his daughter Lucia, who suffered from schizophrenia. Lucia was analyzed by

Paul Weisser

From the Editor

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“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” —James Joyce

Thought for the Month

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November 12, 2016 Volume V, Issue 11

James Joyce(February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941)

PWR NewsletterI self-published

Ulysses!