Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

Happenings

WORDS AND MUSIC

I’m looking forward to participating in the Words & Music Book Faire and Concert at the “Chicks in Crisis Ranch” in Elk Grove, California on May 15, 2022. If you’re in the area, join us.

BETWEEN DARKNESS AND DAWN now available as an audiobook

BETWEEN DARKNESS AND DAWN is now on sale at Audible, iTunes, and Amazon. A great big thank you to talented voice actor Kristen Simoes for bringing book two of my “Enter the Between” series to life.

Top 10 IAP Select Books of 2020

I’m excited to learn that BETWEEN WILL AND SURRENDER is #4 out of the top 10 Indie Author Project Select Books of 2020.

2020 is firmly in the rearview and while we are full steam ahead in 2021, we wanted to take a moment to showcase the authors of the top 10 circulating Indie Author Project Select titles of the last year. These titles accounted for over six thousand reads on BiblioBoard Library from library patrons all over the U.S. and Canada. 

Congratulations to all of the authors and cheers to reaching even more readers in 2021! Read on to see who made the LIST.

Margaret Duarte’s Between Now and Forever wins GOLD for fiction
in the 26th Annual Book Awards Competition
I’m proud for the mention by Elizabeth Pinkerton in Elk Grove Citizen’s “History Happened Here: Famous Supergrads”
I’m so proud to be the California Author Project’s 2019 Adult Fiction Winner
I’m honored to announce that Between Will and Surrender has been selected as the winner of the California Author Project in collaboration with Library Journal and Biblioboard.
Sacramento Boomer Magazine (Getting Older and Getting Better) has featured my book, BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER, in September’s “10-spot” writeup. I’m so proud to be in the company of prolific authors that I’ve come to know and respect.
Eighteen years of writing has been worth it. Book four, the final book in the “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series will be published in a few months. Then that’s it! Time to concentrate on getting my books in front of readers. Another big job!!!!
I’m happy to announce that book three in my “Enter the Between” novel series won two awards in the 2019 Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Award competition.
I just received the following news: May 27, 2018. Congratulations!
The results of the 2018 International Book Awards have been announced. Your book has been honored as a “Finalist” in the “Fiction: Visionary” category.

Author’s Showcase: Elk Grove Library

Author’s Showcase: Elk Grove Library
Between Darkness and Dawn, the second novel in my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series, won second place for fiction in the Northern California Publishers and Authors 2018 Book Awards competition. Another much-needed pat on the back. Thank you NCPA!
My Short Story “Strip and Restore” was a finalist in the SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest

The Tsakopoulos Library Galleria Local Author Fair

Elk Grove Writer’s and Artists “Summer Soriee”
I had a wonderful time as guest speaker at Gini Grossenbacher’s Elk Grove Writers and Artists “Summer Soiree.”
I’m proud to have a work of flash fiction included in the
2017 California Writers Club Literary Review
Between Will and Surrender, book one of the Enter the Between fiction series
Between Will and Surrender, the first novel in my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series, won first place for fiction in Northern California Publishers and Authors 2016 Book Awards competition.  Thank you NCPA!

Once again, a mention of me (1967 Supergrad!) by Elizabeth Pinkerton in Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle (February 5, 2016).

Thank you Elizabeth Pinkerton for mentioning me today (April 10, 2015) in Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle.

I gave a presentation titled “Marketing Strategies for Technological Greenhorns” at the CWC Sacramento Branch

In her History Happened Here column in the Elk Grove Citizen, Elizabeth Pinkerton wrote an article about how my family came from Holland to California and settled in Elk Grove. Thank you, Elizabeth.
Dean Koontz/ Author of Horror or Visionary Fiction?
I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined a group of visionary fiction writers
at Visionary Fiction Alliance.