Writers Helping Writers
Hosted by Palo Alto Public Library
3rd Thursday of most months (check back for updates)
Produced by the San Francisco Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club
Finding a Publisher:
A Dating Game—and More
Tim Flood
Trying to find a publisher is a little bit like finding that special someone you will spend a lot of time with. Using the analogy of a dating game, Tim Flood, author of his debut novel, The Flower of Canaan, to be published by Histria Books in 2026, will present his successful approach to finding a publisher and show you how he organized himself for that all-important and complex search.
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Background: Of The Flower of Canaan, Tim says, "I was moved to write this story of the life of my heroic mother, who found a way to escape the terror of my father and also save the quality of her son’s life." His novel is not a modern story, however. It is a perennial story. Set in the 13th century BCE in the ancient land of Canaan, a beautiful young girl, sold to the highest bidder, a cruel man, finds a way to escape with her son and to become a healer of women. Tim is midway through writing a sequel. "I write about heroes who move from darkness to light."
Tim’s short story “Spaceman,” nominated for the Pushcart Prize, was published in the California Writers Club anthology Fault Zone: Reverse, winner of the 2022 Independent Press Award (IPA) in the Anthology category. In 1999, Tim published a nonfiction book, Islands Apart: Chronicles of Family Healing, about parents and teens facing crisis and how they found a way to heal their broken relationships.
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Attend these free events at the Palo Alto Rinconada Library. All presenters are local authors from the California Writers Club, San Francisco Peninsula branch.
Upcoming presenters:
These monthly events will resume in September.
Presentations are the third Thursday of the month.
Tim Flood
Thursday,
May 15
6:30 - 7:45 pm
1213 Newell Road
Palo Alto 94303
As you enter the library on the right off Newell Road, there is ample parking. The library is to your left opposite the Palo Alto Art Building. The Embarcadero Room is immediately to your right as you enter the building.
Palo Alto Public Library Events
Hosted by Cynthia McCarthy, Writers Helping Writers is offered jointly by CWC's San Francisco Peninsula branch and the Palo Alto Public Library.
Please join us the third Thursday of the month (except June, July, August, and December) at 6:30 pm. Meetings are in-person only.
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Each month, CWC SF Peninsula branch members share learned techniques and experiences in our craft. From scoping out your memoir to finding inspiration for a poem to plotting your novel to learning the ins and outs of blogging—we teach what we’ve learned. This is an opportunity for all writers to meet and share their experiences.
Our purpose? To pass on what we’ve discovered to help other writers.
Anyone can attend, free of charge.