Psst! Something's Coming!

Can you keep a secret?

A view of East Beach from the sky

So can I!

Something fantastic is coming our way.  Stay tuned and we'll tell you more!

Here's a hint.  When you see a link, click on it!

I hope I haven't said too much.

A Children's Gift In Progress

Written by Gina Warren Buzby

I try to attend art fairs whenever possible.  Taking along a few friends and tying in lunch make for a fun day of art awareness and shopping.  Being a Fine Artist myself, I can also consider it "professional development" as I like to see how various peers set up their wares and displays.  During one of my more recent outings I discovered a local Alpaca Farm had a tent that was selling some of the most beautiful wraps, scarves, and sweaters.  The Alpaca wool is buttery soft and warm.  Off to the side of the collection of colorful scarves was a box of small knitted items made to look like animals, characters and insects.  They were finger puppets.

Meeting Moments

Written by Jayne Ormerod  
Photos by Gina Warren Buzby

The East Beach Writers' Guild hosted Dr. William (Bill) Ruehlmann at their October meeting. 

Tucked in amongst the long list of Bill's life accomplishments is that of current Book Reviewer for the Virginian-Pilot. In front of an audience of about 15 Guild members, East Beach residents and invited guests, he offered inspiration and advice to writers. 

Books For The Holiday

On November 20th the East Beach Writers Guild got together for their monthly meeting.  This month we brought children's books to donate to Toys For Tots.  Books can be a fantastic gift.  From toddlers to teenagers we donated books that we thought someone else would love.

Back Row: Gina Warren Buzby, Jayne Ormerod, Jenny Sparks & Patrick Clark
Front Row: Mike Owens, Skip McLamb, Mary-Jac O'Daniel, Karen Harris, Michelle Davenport & Will Hopkins

Cover Reveal

  The day has arrived where we can reveal the cover to our book!

The cover art was painted by professional artist and contributing author Gina Warren Buzby!  You can check out more of her artwork at www.GinaWarrenBuzby.com

A Glimpse of Us

On June 16th all but one of the authors from By The Bay: East Beach stories were able to meet up at East Beach Sandwich Company for a photo shoot.  R.G. Koepf, you were missed.  And Juanita Smith, she penned our foreword, was able to join us as well.

We will be having our launch party at this location.  More on that later.

Very Back: Karen Harris
Back Row Left To Right: Gina Warren Buzby, Jenny Sparks, Jayne Ormerod, Michelle Davenport, Mary-Jac O'Daniel, Juanita Smith
Fron Row Left to Right: Will Hopkins, Patrick Clark, Mike Owens

Have You Seen This?

Have you checked out our pages yet?  

No?  You should!  We just updated our Author's Page.

Now you can see photos of each of the wonderful authors from our book.  And let me tell you that they are a lovely bunch!  So finally you can put a face to the name.  And who doesn't want to do that?

So please browse away.  

Stay tuned as there are more things to come.

Gearing Up

Have you wondered what we've been up to since our last post?  Well things have really been gearing up.

But first...

As you glance through the photos in this post you will see seven of the ten authors from our book pictured at our monthly meeting.  Eight of the authors are actually in attendance, but I'm behind the camera.  The perks of being the 'photographer'.