Novelist Carolyn See to Lead 2-Day Workshop : Other events include a session conducted by Wendy Dager on writing and selling greeting cards.

Carolyn See, novelist, essayist, book reviewer (the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post) and winner of the Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, will conduct a weekend workshop from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 22 to 23 at Learning Tree University’s Thousand Oaks Campus.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from an accomplished, charismatic author how to create and craft the novel. See’s new book, a family memoir, “Dreaming--Hard Luck and Good Times in America,” published by Random House, is getting rave reviews and has been optioned for a movie.

Enrollment is limited. Call 497-2292.

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Wendy Dager will conduct a workshop on “How to Write and Sell Greeting Cards” from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight at Rancho Simi Recreation Park, 1765 Royal Ave., Simi Valley. Call 584-4400.

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Time-management consultant Ann Reeves of Ojai will be interviewed on KQSB (990 AM) at noon Saturday. Her topic: “Romancing the Clock,” how writers organize time.

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Winston Steward will sign “Every Family’s Guide to Computers” at 1 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, 4360 E. Main St., Ventura.

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Two writers will hold court at 1 p.m. Saturday in Mysteries to Die For, 2940 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. Carolyn Wheat will sign her third Cass Jameson adventure, “Fresh Kill,” and first-time author Patricia Benke, an appellate judge, will introduce “Guilty by Choice,” a courtroom drama featuring a young woman prosecutor who has to fight the system to keep a murderer in prison.

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Author Isabel Allende describes how she weaves reality and imagination into her novels on Michael Silverblatt’s show, “Bookworm,” at 2 p.m. Monday on KCRU (89.1 FM).

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Golf pro Sue Hansen will read to children at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Ojai Table of Contents, 208 E. Ojai Ave.

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George Keenan, a trained storyteller and teacher, will practice his art at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Waldorf School of the Oaks, 950 Warwick Ave., Thousand Oaks. Call 495-2022 for reservations.