I was delighted by the students visit after the writing presentation. What a pleasure you all, and thank you Shannon Bright!

LIAM AND CHARLIE VISIT AFTER WRITING TALK

Wednesday, October 23rd at 2:30 Charlie will speak to an assembly of 8th graders in the University Prep School Auditorium. English and Creative Writing students have been reading the book DEAD CONNECTION and Charlie will discuss the inspiration and challenges regarding that novel set in Redding. He will also review tips about accessing imagination.

Saturday, October 19th, Charlie will give the keynote address, CULTIVATING INSPIRATION, for the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Conference at Bishop Ranch Conference Center  in San Ramon, CA. He’ll also participate in the mid-day author autograph session and attend the  workshops, lunch buffet, and post-conference social. Charlie’s fondly remembers an earlier SBCWI Asilomar Conference and looks forward to renewing long-standing friendships.

Saturday evening July 6th, Edgar winning author Charlie Price [INTERROGATION OF GABRIEL JAMES]  will be reading with authors Stephen W. Long [ALL HAT] and Frank Lisciandro [JIM MORRISON- FRIENDS GATHERED TOGETHER] at McMinnville Center for the Arts (MECA) on 7th and Baker Street. The program will last for 60 to 90 minutes, refreshments will be served, and the community is most welcome to attend.

Charlie Price joined Executive Coaches — Don Hardy-Holley, Dede Osborn, Linda Galindo, Bob Boyle, David Dorn, & Marnie Crawford along with the EQR Leadership TrainingTeam— Jonakan O’Steen, Beth Cooper-Zobott, Glenn Sigle, Debbie Bush & Crista Sorenson to  provide the twentieth year of LEAD training for Equity Residential Properties. The full-day seminars included teaching, discussion, and exercises designed to help participants better understand several individualized instruments including the MBTI Preferences & Firo-B Interpersonal Relationship surveys, as well as two competence-measuring 360s: The Campbell Leadership Index and the EQR 360, a homegrown performance feedback instrument. Each coach worked in a five-person team with the perceptive and highly competent men and women the company had selected for personal/professional growth and development. Topic areas encompassed personal awareness, Emotional Intelligence, psychometric instruments review, role-playing and group action exercises.The five days were fast-paced and exhilarating. We all benefited from reinforcing skills as valuable in our own families as they are in our business careers.

Friday, February 8th Charlie will Join Watt Key, Grayson Capps, George Fuller and several other authors for a full day of writing discussions and mini-workshops at Spanish Fort’s Middle School. Over 300 students will rotate though the several authors presentations in a round-robin carnival of writings and readings. It will absolutely be fun and with any luck at all, it should be educational and inspirational … at least for the authors.

This coming February 2019, Charlie will again be writer-in-residence at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts south of Mobile Alabama on the gulf. The Center’s Wolff cottage is a marvelous place to write (100 feet from a grand city library) and the people of Fairhope are open and interesting , talented and fun — an altogether amazing community that never fails to provide an educational and inspiring experience.

During past stays Charlie collaborated with local artist/painter Chris Knight in a “spontaneous inspiration” experiment that began after he and Chris were talking about the similarities of inspirational experience between artists, musicians, writers, scientists, engineers, probably everyone from time to time. As a result they decided to go outdoors to different locations and, once there, work simultaneously, Chris painting and Charlie writing, for an hour drawing from the randomly chosen setting for creative material. Afterward, they reviewed, rehashed their work — what caught their separate fancies — looking particularly for the similarities and differences in their processes.

Charlie is published by Farrar Strous and Giroux, New York. His six books are available in hardback and paper. During his last visit he completed his novel DEAD INVESTIGATION, a sequel to his first book, DEAD CONNECTION.