Programming – Author Diana Rowland visits to talk about her writing career and how various jobs influenced her tales!
♣ Diana Rowland, author of the Kara Gillian series and White Trash Zombie series, will visit to talk about her writing career and how her various jobs over the years had influenced and informed her books & short stories.
She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a crime scene investigator, and a morgue assistant. She used to live in south Louisiana, but now calls Albuquerque home.
Diana Rowland is a graduate of the 1998 Clarion West Writers Workshop. In 2005, Rowland won first place in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future contest for her short story “Schroedinger’s Hummingbird.” This was her first time entering the contest. In 2011 Rowland was nominated for an RT Reviewer’s Choice award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist for her character Angel Crawford from My Life as a White Trash Zombie. In 2012 Rowland was again nominated for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist for Angel Crawford, this time for Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues, and won. In 2013 Rowland received an RT Reviewer’s Choice nomination for Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding for Touch of the Demon. She also has contributed to the Wild Cards universe and had a story in Dangerous Women, edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.
Newcomers are welcome with a $1.00 contribution to help pay our rent…
Remember, no outside food is allowed at St. Andrew. Please be discreet with any candy. Water/soda bottles and lidded beverage cups are permitted.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 PM. Enter through the back doors (northside) of church – the courtyard is locked up at 5:00 pm each day. Please do not arrive before 7:15 pm. We have to set up the room ourselves, and straighten/clean-up around 10:00 pm.
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Meeting Location:
ACTIVITY ROOM (west end of building, enter through door on northside of church)
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM
(First street north of Erna Ferguson Library on San Mateo. Ponderosa is the northern border of Montgomery Park, and intersects with both San Mateo and San Pedro. The street is north of Comanche and south of Montgomery)
Club Contacts:
Craig C/Jessica C. at 266-8905 or Craig