Sunday, March 12, 2017

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THE WRITER'S BLOCK 

Sandra's Interview with John Ronan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qW4EM-DgL0

1623 Studios Cable TV

Airs: December 10, 2020 at 8:00


The Writer’s Block with John Ronan, a New England Cable Television Award winner, just celebrated its 30th year featuring writers, poets and other artists. It is produced at 1623 Studios, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and cablecast to Gloucester, Essex, Manchester and Rockport. John Ronan, former poet laureate for the city of Gloucester is producer and host. Many recent shows are available on You Tube. 
VENUES
Cape Ann Indie Authors- Sandra and Dan Duffy (et al)
WHAT:    The Holiday Book & Author Fair
WHEN:    Saturday. Dec. 3 ~ noon to 3 pm
WHERE: Brackett’s Restaurant, Rockport, MA
FEATURING: Sandra's Moss on Stone and Time and Tide

                      

EASTERN POINT LIT HOUSE BOOK CLUB AT DUCKWORTH'S: Discussion of Shakespeare's Hamlet on Sunday, March 15, 2020 5:00 pm at Duckworth's Bistrot , 197 E. Main Street, Gloucester, MA - Tickets at: easternpointlithouse@gmail.com 


MOSS ON STONE: A HISTORICAL NOVELLA:   Cancelled due to weather, will be rescheduled in the spring 2020 - Sponsored by: MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 7:00 pm - at Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 62 School Street, Manchester, MA

POETRY IN PLACE WORKSHOP AT T.S. Eliiot House - SOLD OUT. Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 1:30 - 4:00, an offereing of the Dogtown Writers Festival: Finding Words in Place sponsored by Gloucester Writers Center.

FULlY PRESENT: MEETING HOUSE WRITERS POETRY READING at Chester County Library on November 29, 2018 - 7:00 pm, Exton, PA

TIME AND TIDE: A COLLECTION OF TALES at Ideas Bookstore on Sunday, December 17, 2017,  5 pm.  2234 Kimberton Road, Kimberton, PA. Reception to Follow.

MEET LOCAL AUTHORS EVENING - Moss on Stone: a historical novella at Rockport Library on Thursday, October 26, 2017,  7 pm, 17 School Street, Rockport, MA with Dan Duffy, author of Brother, Brother

MEET THE AUTHORS at Rocky Neck
Cultural Center on Thursday, May 18th - 6:30 pm
Sandra's Moss on Stone and Brother, Brother by Dan Duffy, 6 Wonson Ave., Gloucester, MA

OTHER READING HAVE BEEN HELD AT:

INN ON COVE HILL B & B at 37 Mt. Pleasant St., Rockport, MA 

EMERSON INN on the BACK PORCH, 1 Cathedral Avenue, Rockport, MA

EASTERN POINT LIT HOUSE 261 Main Street, Gloucester, MA

GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER, 126 E. Main St., Gloucester, MA with Jan Blais, author of  Finding Botticelli

Sandra Williams taught Language Arts, World Literature, and Reading, Writing & Research at the university and secondary levels, with an MA in British Literature from Villanova University. She is a poet and writer with several articles published in New View Magazine UK, and has written PR pieces and articles in newsletters and journals for non-profits schools and organizations. Sandra also writes book reviews for Metapsychology Online. She is author of Moss on Stone, a historical novella, based on the diary of Susannah Norwood Torrey, a young woman of mid-nineteenth Rockport, MA, and of Time and Tide: a collection of tales. She is a member of the Meeting House Writers in Kimberton, PA and the Finish Line Writers in Gloucester, MA. She co-chaired the first writers' conference on Cape Ann: The Dogtown Writers Festival: Finding Words in Place, sponsored by Gloucester Writers Center, and has served on its board of directors. She lives in Rockport, MA with her artist husband Robert, illustrator of Moss on Stone robertlouiswilliams.com. Both are inspired by the beauty of Cape Ann and its community of creativity. They have two grown sons and four grandchildren. 


Moss on Stone and Time and Tide available at: Amazon.com & BarnesandNoble.com and these locations:
  • Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester
  • Gloucester Bookstore, Gloucester
  • Rockport Library, Rockport
  • Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester
  • Premier Gifts, Gloucester
  • Most B & Bs in Rockport
  • Sandy Bay Historical Society and Museum (Rockport)
  • IDEAS Bookstore, Kimberton, PA
Trailer: Time and Tide: a collection of tales

Time and Tide: a collection of tales speaks of change— sometimes a long time coming, sometimes in an instant, but always inevitable. The introductory tale, “Book of Hours,” frames the stories that follow. Helen, an American writer, living in Italy, believes her creativity is gone forever as she returns to her childhood home to care for her dying mother. A curious encounter in a clock shop leads her to a strange experience of inspiration, wherein: 

"All manner of dark and light beings began to flash and flutter before her—some in images like holographs, their voices heard in whispers and secret thoughts. When they came, they came like a swift, incoming tide, surreal, filled with beauty and sadness, old regrets and new life—all muddled and intertwined as in a dream….She understood them, loved them. She both dreamed their dreams and was in the dreams—hundreds of them, maybe enough to last a lifetime. She would speak as them and for them."

Each subsequent story in the collection, with Helen as conduit, reveals the strange alchemy of human experience, bringing forth golden revelations.

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