Upcoming Events
Pushing Boundaries – Stories of Border Crossings, Love, Courage and the Indomitable Human Spirit
WNBA-SF hosts National Reading Group Month Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Francisco October 13th, 2018, Saturday 3:00-5:00pm Co-sponsored by: Kristina McMorris, Sold on a Monday: A Novel (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018), is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her background includes ten years of directing public relations for an international conglomerate as well as extensive television experience. Inspired by true personal and historical accounts, her novels have … [Read More...]
Book Marketing Pros Panel: WNBA-SF’s Secrets to Successful Marketing for Writers
Author Lunch Mechanics' Institute Library, San Francisco Friday, October 19, 2018, 12:00 Noon 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104 4th Floor, Chess Room (Free to Public, refreshments available) When do you start marketing your book? Find out the surprising answer at WNBA-SF’s Book Marketing Master Class. Join three promotional and marketing experts who are there to give you highly effective bookselling tips and tools. Attendees can receive a proprietary marketing guide filled with the … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview
Featured Member Interview – Gina L. Mulligan
Interview by Susan Allison When asked how and when she became a writer, Gina shares her history: “I began writing poetry as a child and thought I wanted to be a copywriter. So, I got my degree in Marketing and moved to New York City. My first job was as a flunky in an advertising agency. It was a great job, but I realized I didn’t like … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview – Elise Collins
Interview by Susan Allison As a successful writer, Elise speaks of her history, explaining that she was encouraged by her family to be an intellectual, and was expected to read and write well. It was in her mid twenties that she began writing articles for newspapers and had a column called “Body and Soul” in the Psychic Reader. She adds, “It … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview – Susan Allison
Interview by Nina Lesowitz In this interview, Dr. Susan Allison shares her wisdom about “writing what you know” and her publishing experiences with large publishers (Random House), smaller presses, and, self-publishing. “What has worked for me in writing Conscious Divorce and the books that followed, is to write about what I am deeply … [Read More...]
BookTalk! The Buzz in the World of Books
How to Make Book Signing Events More Engaging
By Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, author of The Gift of Crisis (October 2018) A few weeks ago there was a book signing event I was incredibly excited to attend. The author recently published a beautifully illustrated informational book, and it was on social media the author would be on book tour at local bookstore. Happily, I put the date Read More…
Dear Writers: Is an Epistolary Book Right for You?
By Gina L. Mulligan, author, Remember the Ladies; From Across the Room; and Dear Friend If you lived in the late 1700s, you drank corn whiskey, spun your own cloth, and spent your evenings in the glow of candlelight reading an epistolary novel. If the term epistolary is unfamiliar, you’re not alone. An epistolary novel is Read More…
Narrative Arc – Your story needs a shape
By Louise Nayer, author of Poised for Retirement: Moving from Anxiety to Zen (2017) As a poet for many years, I didn’t obsess about “narrative arc” —though there was a beginning, middle and end to my poems that I tinkered with constantly. When I moved to prose — plot, character transformation, tying it all together — Read More…
