META STRAUSS : 2017

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

NEW SITE FOR META.......

HERE IS THE LINK.....

NEW SITE FOR META

Thursday, March 2, 2017

HOUSTON EVENT - BLUE WILLOW BOOKSTORE - APRIL 29, 2017

This merry band of booksellers opened Blue Willow Bookstore in October 1996 as a neighborhood bookshop with outreach throughout the Houston area. This unique book haven provides a friendly, helpful environment for book lovers of all ages and interests. It’s fun to browse their shelves for books you don’t even know you must have until you are there and realize what you are missing. They take pride in their “opinionated advice.”

Blue Willow also has a great selection of games, puzzles, stationery, and more.

They are located in the West Memorial area, at 14532 Memorial Drive, 77079.

Mark your calendar for

April 29, 2017 – 3:00 PM

Meta Strauss

will read from her

Texas Novel

Saving El Chico

and be there to sign books and answer questions

Blue Willow Bookshop

14532 Memorial Drive

Houston, TX 77079

Contact here to reserve your copies

Phone: 281.497.8675

Fax: 281.497.0180

Email: staff@bluewillowbookshop.com

DETAILS ABOUT META'S EVENT - CLICK HERE

Friday, January 27, 2017

Sonoma Writers Alliance Anthology - New Published Short Stories

Sonoma Writers Alliance Anthology

This book is packed with a stunning variety of short stories, poems, essays ... and one play. It is a must-have for your library or a perfect gift for a friend. You can read it from cover to cover, or, when you have a few minutes to escape from your daily grind, it's one of those books that you can read a few pages at a time. When you close the cover you'll feel like you've been somewhere and discovered something new.

The group of Sonoma writers represented in this anthology is only the tip of the talent-iceberg living in the small California town famous for fine wine and food. Sonoma, the area the natives called the Valley of the Moon, is a place of many wonders making it a breeding ground for authors from Jack London to Emma Cline to members of Sonoma Writers Alliance.

I am honored to have four of my short stories included.

ORDER HERE - from AMAZON or ask for it at your local book store.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998529214/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_awdo_t2_xpXEyb78DVB4Y

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Sonoma Radio - KSVY - SPEAKEASY

Go to this link to listen to Meta's visit with Katherine Sevenau on Sonoma's Speakeasy Show as they talk about SAVING EL CHICO, Texas and writing.

http://ksvy.org/showarchive/public/KSVY_2016-12-06__19_01_19.mp3

ABOUT META

Meta Strauss moved from her life-long home, Houston, Texas in 2005 to northern California. She lives in the heart of wine country where the scenery, weather and people are so perfect locals don't like to brag for fear the entire world will move to Sonoma and spoil the small town atmosphere. Meta joins the long list of artists, writers, film-makers, chefs, gardeners and philosophers who live in the Valley of the Moon, fertile ground for growing in creativity and contentment.

Meta's writing is often published in the Sonoma Sun's Fine Art Section. Her work appears in the anthology Cry of the Nightbird and a memoir of family tales, Stories for Emma, is available on Amazon.

Meta's first novel, Saving El Chico was released in January, 2016, available on Amazon, Kindle and at local book stores.

From the owners of Ed’s Salvage Yard and Golf Course to the Be Lovely Boutique, citizens of the small west Texas town of El Chico band together in order to survive and flourish in the twenty-first century. A devastating drought appears to be the final blow to the community and Bea McPherson’s Circle McP Ranch. Taking advantage of the situation, a fast-talking Dallas businessman joins with the local mayor to swindle the residents. They don't count on the unwavering devotion to the land and shrewdness of the female rancher aided by Jake, a cowboy who was born a hundred years too late, and Silver Crow, the Great-Grandson of Quanah Parker, noble chief of the Comanche nation.