Upcoming Events
2019 San Francisco Writing for Change Conference
Saturday, September 14th, 2019 Check-in begins at 8:30 am Event: 8:30 am – 5:30 pm First Unitarian Universalist Center of San Francisco 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary), San Francisco, CA Please join the Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter at the San Francisco Writing for Change Conference where we will have a booth and also be participating in panels on getting published, marketing and writing the perfect proposal and much more! The keynoter at the 2018 San Francisco Writing … [Read More...]
The 2019 Effie Lee Morris Lecture Series Celebrates Women Writers
Join the San Francisco Public Library Main Children's Center this fall as we present two lectures celebrating the voices of two gifted female authors and honoring the work of Effie Lee Morris (1921 – 2009), the first coordinator of children’s services at SFPL. Ms. Morris, a tireless champion for diversity in children’s literature and in children’s lives, was the first African-American president of the Public Library Association, and a co-founder of the SF chapter of the Women’s National Book … [Read More...]
Mixing It Up at the Mechanics Institute Library: August 16th WNBA-SF Gala
Friday, August 16, 2019, 2pm to 4 pm 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104 4th Floor, Chess Room (Free to Public, refreshments available) Please join WNBA-SF members and friends for a get together at the beautiful beaux arts building in downtown San Francisco. Start the weekend off right with members of both our Women’s National Book Association Chapter as well as Mechanics Institute Library, and more! It’s a MIXER, so bring a literary friend or two to join the fun. We appreciate our … [Read More...]
Author Lunch – A Novel Plan: The Art of Outlining Your Fiction
Author Lunch, Mechanics Institute Library Friday, August 16, 2019, 12:00 Noon 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104 4th Floor, Chess Room (Free to Public, refreshments available) What are the secrets to success for novels? At least one of them is structure and our esteemed WNBA-SF member authors will share the approaches that have garnered them bestseller status, awards and rave reviews. Learn what role planning and research play and how to make your scenes, settings, and characters … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview
Featured Literary Agent – Jennifer March Soloway
Interview by Susan Allison Most of our feature-articles have focused on women authors and their journeys from early writing experience to publication. In this article we are able to glimpse another part of the publishing world through the life and words of literary agent, Jennifer Soloway. Jennifer March Soloway is an associate agent with the … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview – Joan Gelfand
Interview by Susan Allison What inspires me most about WNBA featured writer Joan Gelfand is her tenacity, her willingness to do whatever it takes to be a successful author. Her honesty is refreshing when she says, “I became determined to get a book out-and it takes determination! My publishing experience has been that every book has taken … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview – Judy Bebelaar
Interview by Susan Allison WNBA Featured author, Judy Bebelaar, has been writing for seventy-two years. Yes, that’s right, seventy-two years! She remembers writing her first story in first grade and then a poetry collection in third grade. Judy loved her teachers so much that she decided to become one. She taught in San Francisco public high … [Read More...]
BookTalk! The Buzz in the World of Books
Tweet Success – I
Written By Cathy Turney with significant input from Cynthia Rubin, BestEditorEver If you think Twitter is basically for the birds, I was once like you. Actually, as a child I had a succession of blue parakeets I faithfully nurtured that then mysteriously dropped dead—a portent of things to come? Recently, though, after spending countless dollars Read More…
Tweet Success – II
Written By Cathy Turney with significant input from Cynthia Rubin, BestEditorEver [This is the second part of Cathy’s post. Read the first part here.] Tip #3: Choose a Memorable Handle By memorable, I mean easy to remember and identify (vs. too clever). On Twitter you have two names. First is your real name—the one your Read More…
How to Stay Sane When Your Book is Published
How to Stay Sane When Your Book is Published by Nita Sweeney The hotel carpet itched the back of my neck as I lay on the floor with my eyes closed. To persuade my back muscles to relax, I’d folded my legs in the Egoscue Method “static back press” across the seat of the stiff Read More…
