Jennifer's Art and Words

Jack-a-lantern Smile by Jennifer O’Neill Pickering                     The receptionist at the front desk assured me I had 100% dental coverage for all the procedures the oral surgeon, I’d never met, would perform that day. This information improved my caffeine deprived headache--- a little. I sat down, flipped through a People magazine wondering what the rich and famous were up to (besides their perfect sets of teeth).  The weeks feature story was a photo essay on the progress of Princess Kate’s “baby bump.” Just look at her set of pearly whites!             A twenty something male technician, named Jimmy, called my name, and led me to the surgery room, where he explained the step-by-step procedures they’d be performing. After the third or fourth step Jimmy’s lips continued to move without me hearing any sounds. “We need to take ...

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

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

Just had a great reading at the VOX i n 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...

  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 T he  Dog with the Old   Soul. S ome of the authors will read from their stories including myself.   Here are some great mystery writers who are also, very literary. Want mystery?