September 2025
Join us on Saturday, September 20th, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm as we reconvene after our short summer break. As usual, we will meet at the Devonshire Senior Center, 2802 E. Devonshire Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85016 to connect, catch up on club activities, and here from this month’s speaker:
Ann Narcisian Videan will lead a workshop: Editing Schmediting! Who Needs It
Ann guides peers through the writing, editing, publishing and word-of-mouth marketing of both fiction and nonfiction books.
Ann showed up in this world with a pen in her hand, a song in her heart, and the desire to share with you. She adores creativity of all types, and especially the people who live it. She gathers friends like flowers, including authors, musicians, artists, and her husband and two grown-up children. The Colorado native lives in Mesa, Arizona, along with numerous invisible friends including snarky mythical creatures and magical story characters.
Explore blog posts about writing, Ann’s books and music CD, and her writing community at ANVidean.com
Other career highlights
- 2024 – Book shepherded more than 150 authors’ books to-date, helping them with ideas, writing, editing, formatting, pitching, publishing, and inspiration
- 2007– Selected by peers for the Public Relations Society of America’s top honor: the PERCY Award
- 2005 – Selected by a national panel for The Crown Jewel Award (top U.S. home-based business)
- 2004 – Served as the catalyst to reintroduce white rhinos to the Phoenix Zoo
- 1996 – Enticed 15,000 extras to Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, AZ, to film football movie scenes for Jerry Maguire
