Carol O'Hara, Board Member, Secretary/Treasurer
Carol
O'Hara, owner of Cat*Tale Press is a writer/photographer,
publisher/publishing consultant, writing conference
director/consultant, and speaker on writing-related topics,
who has also taught personal experience writing and publishing
both privately and for college adult education departments.
Through Cat*Tale Press, she has published four personal
experience books - two on writing (one a regional
best-seller), a book of animal stories, and a cookbook. Her
present endeavors are writing a family and a travel memoir and
writing both general interest and travel articles for national
and international magazines and newspapers, including Arizona
Highways, International Travel News, The California Highway
Patrolman ,Nevada Magazine, The Sacramento Bee, Missing
Children Report, and Writer's Digest. Fine travel experiences
for disabled travelers is the focus of many of her recent
articles.She is also an editor, with clients throughout the
United States and in the United Kingdom. Her conference
experiences include spearheading large and small writing
conferences for colleges, universities, and writers'
organizations. Two were conducted aboard cruise ships.Carol,
who has won awards for her writing and editing, holds degrees
in journalism and in English (Creative Writing Option). Her
English degree is from California State University, San
Francisco, and she has graduate work in English, business, and
education from California State University, Sacramento. Her
affiliations include International Food Wine and Travel
Writers' Association, California Writers' Club, and Society of
Southwestern Authors. A Tucson, Arizona native, Carol and her
husband James, United States Air Force Retired, have traveled
extensively throughout the fifty United States, Australia,
Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. Their home is in northern
California.
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