A SPECIAL REPORT: O.C. AUTHORS

AT THE SUMMIT: While the rest of us catch up on our summer reading, 12 Orange County fiction writers will be among 120 writers honing their literary skills at the weeklong Squaw Valley Community of Writers, held annually in August. . . . Who knows, they might catch the eye of a literary agent. That’s what happened to Robert Ferrigno, the former Register reporter whose 1990 first novel, “The Horse Latitudes,” is now out in paperback. Conference director Oakley Hall, formerly of UC Irvine, concedes many hope to land an agent, “but we like them to come to learn to write better so the agents will find them. “