Voices of the Valley: Through the Window is the fifth anthology of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch. It seems fitting to recognize the experience we are all going through as a result to the pandemic COVID-19 thrust into our lives this year. Through the Window gives us a picture of the way many of us have been required to visit our loved ones in the year 2020. There are a host of stories, memoirs and poems in this volume. Some of them center around the pandemic. Many are stories that provide us with a place to go where we can escape the many stresses of this time. We invite you to linger for awhile, getting lost in our pages. There is plenty to entertain and much to enlighten. We hope it will help many to get through this difficult time and remind us that the future will bring us, again, to a brighter day.
I have two pieces in this collection of TVW members’ writings. The first is an excerpt titled “In the Nick of Time” from my recently published second novel, The Keepers of Alba. And the second is a poem, “Dragon Flight.”
Voices of the Valley: Through the Window contains over 60 written pieces: essay, memoir, poetry, and short stories. The variety showcases the talents of TVW’s diverse writing community.
I am honored to not only have my pieces included, but I co-chaired the process of publishing, formatted the interior, and designed the cover from artwork by my cousin, Shane Tarkington. Voices of the Valley: Through the Window may be purchased here.
