Panel Discussion:
Vinnie will join other Sisters in Crime--Rita Lakin, Simon Wood, and Susan Shea--for a presentation to the Berkeley Chapter of AAUW on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at 10 a.m.
Book Signing:
Vinnie will be signing the five books in her mystery series
at Inklings: Books & Things in the Capitola Mall on February
11, 2012, from 2-4 p.m. Come by and see this cute new
store.
First Place Win:
Vinnie's story "Killing Poe" won Santa Cruz Reads Poe Fiction Contest! She
will be reading at the Grand Finale of the Santa Cruz Reads event on
November 3, 2011, 7:15 at the Seymour Center in Santa Cruz. Visit www.santacruzreads.org
Get a jump on your holiday shopping:
Vinnie will be signing all five of her mysteries at Crossroads Book
Store in Watsonville on December 3rd from 1-3.
Featured Reader: Vinnie will be the featured reader at the Community Reading series: Porter Memorial Library, Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 2-4 p.m.
Radio Reading:
Vinnie will be reading and discussing her story "Chinchillas" June 14, 2011, on Bruce Bratton's KZSC radio program "Universal Grapevine." "Chinchillas" won third place in the Bookshop Santa Cruz Fiction Contest.
Publication:
Vinnie's story "Rose Parade" will be published in the 2011 Porter Gulch Review. Vinnie will unfortunately be out of town on the day of the reading, but please check out the enormous talent represented in the literary magazine: 7 p.m. May 20, 2011, at the Horticulture Lecture Hall on Cabrillo's campus.
Meet the Author: Vinnie will be featured
at the Porter Memorial Library's monthly event on April 13,
2011, at 10:30 a.m.
Sisters in Crime Presentation: Vinnie will
speak on a panel presentation to the AAUW Sunnyvale chapter
on February 8, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Published Non-Mystery Short
Story: Vinnie's story "The Celestial Division of Instruments" appeared
in the 50th anniversary issue of Transfer, the literary magazine
of San Francisco State University, December, 2010.
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Transfer Magazine on Facebook!
Dominican Oaks:
Vinnie will be speaking to residents of Dominican Oaks retirement community on November 18, 2010, at 2 p.m.
Vinnie will participate on an authors' Liars Panel at the San Mateo County Fair, Saturday, June 19, 2010, from 1:15-2:00 p.m.
Watch for Vinnie's story
"Rooster and Buster Brown Shoes" in the upcoming issue of the Porter Gulch
Review. Published authors and artists will read from and show their work Saturday,
May 29, 2010, at 7 p.m. at the Horticulture Center of Cabrillo College's Aptos
Campus.
Vinnie is now blogging under the pseudonym Purple at www.cruzio.com