The Wednesday Sisters

I read this book a few weeks ago but now it's almost due at the library so I write...

This book hits a lot of buttons for me.

Amateur writers meeting in a group to write and one gets published... (it's almost like the adult version of "The Wild Girls" - adult meaning that it is adults who gather to write, not kids)....
The group motivates themselves to write by taking turns taking pictures of themselves in a coffin.

"What if you _were_ in that coffin and hadn't done what you wanted to, hadn't written".

Set in the late sixties or so when my mom was close to the age of the women in the book (although she was a little bit younger)

Cancer involved - both with the mother of one of the characters and the character herself.

Bonding through adversity

Set in the Bay Area (in Palo Alto - with Kepler's involved, the beginnings of Intel, etc).