Sacramento Bloggers

Hi, I just want to plug the Sacramento Bloggers. I am a member!  They have fun mixers,and readings from their writings. Some of them are preforming at the Crest Theater at a Listen to Your Mother Event. Sacramento Bloggers

Braced For Murder

I just finished cozying up to the latest Beanie and Cruiser mystery, Braced for Murder. It is one of my favorite books from the series. Sue Owens Wright focuses our attention on the serious issue of animal care in shelters with her whodunit wit.

Calamity is the newest canine character that is partnered up with Cruiser to unravel the crimes. Your favorite human characters, Nona and Skip, are on hand as well helping Beanie with her amateur sleuthing.

The story opens with a murder at an animal shelter. Add a ghost of the four-footed kind; a Native American healing for daughter, Nona; Skip’s new trainee, beautiful Rusty Cannon; and a Basset Waddle, and you have quite a mix of levity and suspense. It is all set in the pristine backdrop of Lake Tahoe. You need to add this one to your summer reading list.

Jennifer O’Neill Pickering

VOX at the 13x13 WTF! Art Show

Just had a great reading at the VOX in the 13x13 WTF! art show. Thanks to Frank Andrick for organizing the event and the amazing folks at VOX. I'm showing  my art along with photography by Katy Brown, Cynthia Linville, Rachel Leiebrock, Shoka and others through April. Haunting spoken word put to music by Chatoyant.

Trinity, mixed media, Jennifer O'Neill Pickering at the VOX

Hope you will join the WRITERS’CIRCLE at our reading March 11 at SPC, 7:30. An open reading follows so bring your poetry. We will also be celebrating member birthdays (including mine) with cake, bubbly and sparkling cider. I have recently published in Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry, WTF, Harlequin, and Restore/Restory: a people’s history of the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. I will read an excerpt from a new novel (The Day Daddy Left) and poetry. Patricia L. Nichol and Marilyn Price were included in Late Peaches as is Mike Pickering who will be opening the show with 2 original songs. Sarah Stricker is reading new memoir and Melon Lunn new poetry.

We are happy to autograph any of the many books we've written for your bookshelf including a memoir by Diane Bader. Last but not least enjoy the energetic pen & ink water colors by Jeanie Keltner and the ceramic sculpture by Julia Connor at the Poets’ Gallery.
916-457-5584 See you there, Jennifer 

Sacramento Poetry Center/Poets Gallery,
1719 25th Street (25th between Q & R).
7:30-9pm

Second Saturday Sacramento Writer's Brush Art Reception is Saturday Feb 9, 5-8pm





Jennifer O'Neill Pickering



You may know that Jack Kerouac, Charlotte and Emily Bronte were writers, but did you also know they were visual artists? In the tradition of these literary greats the fourth annual Sacramento Writer’s Brush features local writers/artists, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Bethanie Humphreys, Ann Privateer, Joseph Finkleman, Tim Mchargue, Kimberly White, Jeanine Stevens, Christy Lenzi and Katy Brown, in an art exhibit of their art at the  Poets’ Gallery, 1719 25th Street (25th&R Sacramento Poetry Center)

Guitarist, George Sheldon is featured at the art show and there will be a 30 minute open mike 6:30-7pm. Events are free but donations are gratefully accepted and benefit the Sacramento Poetry Center. Show runs through Feb. 28. More...Please see the pages link to the left. 

October 3rd, 6-8pm, California History Museum is hosting an Art and Poetry reception: Creating Freedom: The Art and Poetry of Domestic Violence Survivors. Art on display through December 10, 2012. 

October 4th at 7:30, the Avid Reader in Davis, is hosts a book signing of The Dog with the Old Soul. Some of the authors will read from their stories including myself. 


Here are some great mystery writers who are also, very literary.Want mystery?

Hope you will join us! I will be exhibiting art with two friends at the Coffee Garden the month of October 2012. I will have tiles for sale of my art work as well. Coffee Garden