Talk: "Writing Your Own Story"
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Nov.17.2009 - 1:24 pm
Okay, this takes the cake. . . (or the pizza in this case). What happens on pizza night when a writer’s head if full of all the things going on in her life:
1: researching and...
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Oct.22.2009 - 3:50 pm
Since publishing my memoir, I've been asked by a few writers involved in writing their own memoirs for some helpful tips. Strangely, I always feel presumptuous in giving out...
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Sep.03.2009 - 6:18 pm
How to interpret the parting words of your children on their first day of school:
Child number one:
Daniel, 15, known for his street-art sensibility and well-honed edge of sarcasm...
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Jul.09.2009 - 10:22 pm
Publishing a book can get you into some pretty unusual circumstances. Because my memoir is about losing my Catholic faith, a friend asked me to be a curator for the first ever...
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Published Reviews
Mar.01.2009
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
Kids who grow up in ultrareligious families often have great tales to tell, but the stories of Veronica Chater make you shake your head, laugh out loud and joyfully turn the page...
About Veronica
I grew up in San Jose, California, the second oldest of eleven kids, raised by radically Catholic parents who were on a mission to find the traditional church after it was modernized by Vatican II. This mission took us to Portugal and back, and from middle...
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Sierra Club; Public Library; Public Schools; Crowden Music Center; Women's Cancer Resource Center; Democratic Party
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