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Novelist Carolyn See to Lead 2-Day Workshop : Other events include a session conducted by Wendy Dager on writing and selling greeting cards.

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Carolyn See, novelist, essayist, book reviewer (the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post) and winner of the Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, will conduct a weekend workshop from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 22 to 23 at Learning Tree University’s Thousand Oaks Campus.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from an accomplished, charismatic author how to create and craft the novel. See’s new book, a family memoir, “Dreaming--Hard Luck and Good Times in America,” published by Random House, is getting rave reviews and has been optioned for a movie.

Enrollment is limited. Call 497-2292.

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Wendy Dager will conduct a workshop on “How to Write and Sell Greeting Cards” from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight at Rancho Simi Recreation Park, 1765 Royal Ave., Simi Valley. Call 584-4400.

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Time-management consultant Ann Reeves of Ojai will be interviewed on KQSB (990 AM) at noon Saturday. Her topic: “Romancing the Clock,” how writers organize time.

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Winston Steward will sign “Every Family’s Guide to Computers” at 1 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, 4360 E. Main St., Ventura.

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Two writers will hold court at 1 p.m. Saturday in Mysteries to Die For, 2940 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Carolyn Wheat will sign her third Cass Jameson adventure, “Fresh Kill,” and first-time author Patricia Benke, an appellate judge, will introduce “Guilty by Choice,” a courtroom drama featuring a young woman prosecutor who has to fight the system to keep a murderer in prison.

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Author Isabel Allende describes how she weaves reality and imagination into her novels on Michael Silverblatt’s show, “Bookworm,” at 2 p.m. Monday on KCRU (89.1 FM).

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Golf pro Sue Hansen will read to children at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ojai Table of Contents, 208 E. Ojai Ave.

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George Keenan, a trained storyteller and teacher, will practice his art at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Waldorf School of the Oaks, 950 Warwick Ave., Thousand Oaks. Call 495-2022 for reservations.

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