A Behind the Scenes Look at Working in Hollywood

Sterling Anderson is a three-time NAACP Image Award nominee for best screenwriter and winner of the Movieguide Faith & Freedom award and the Christopher award for ‘The Gabby Douglas Story’.

Sterling will be guest speaker on February 10 at the Napa Valley Writers meeting, always open to the public. He has written for some of the most popular network television shows, such as ‘The Unit’, ‘Medium’ and ‘Heist.’ His movie ‘The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn’, starring Sidney Poitier, garnered a best actress Emmy nomination for Dianne Wiest and won an Image Award. Sterling’s extensive resume also includes screenplays written for Lifetime, Lions Gate, Disney, HBO, TriStar Pictures and Columbia Pictures.

Sterling has written two books on writing: Go To Script: Screenwriting Tips From A Pro and 15 Steps To Becoming A Successful (Artist) Screenwriter and a fiction book, Five Seconds To Go.

A graduate in English from St. Mary’s College, the accomplished writer also spent five years teaching screenwriting courses as an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Sarita Lopez, NVW’s February member reader, will read from her new book, Zombies and Tiaras, about a zombie outbreak that occurs during a Texas beauty pageant.

Napa Valley Writers, a branch of California Writers Clubs, meets 7-9 pm in our new location at Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists Church Sanctuary, 1625 Salvador Avenue, Napa. Cost at the door: $10 guests; $7, CWC members; Students with ID, free. For more information, contact publicity.nvw@gmail.com or see napavalleywriters.net.