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ZEN AND THE
ART OF THE BOOK DEAL
Publishing Panel: Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010 •
2-5 p.m.
San Francisco Main Public Library
Women’s National Book
Association – San Francisco Chapter brings you the latest news in the publishing
industry from the following insiders:
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JENNIFER JOSEPH - publisher and
editor of Manic D Press
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PETER BEREN
- literary agent and publishing
consultant
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BRIDGET KINSELLA - Breaking Books
& navigating the publishing landscape
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GEORGIA HUGHES - editorial director
of New World Library
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Moderator: Mary
Knippel, immediate past president, WNBA-SF
Chapter.
September is National Literacy
Month. Join our panel of experts as they share the
newest insights into the publishing
industry.
Participate
in our Great Book Give Away. See you
there!
Event address:San Francisco Public Library, Latino Hispanic
Community Room, Lower Level, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. FREE TO THE
PUBLIC
Visit WNBA-SF website for more details on this powerful
event.
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Jennifer Joseph
has been publisher and editor of
Manic D
Press since its founding in 1984. Manic D Press is a critically
acclaimed, award-winning literary press based in San Francisco, California
publishing fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, art, cultural studies, and
alternative travel trade titles. She has appeared as a guest on CSPAN’s BookTV
and Michael Krasny’s Forum on KQED
radio. Her critical writing has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, American
Bookseller, and the
Los Angeles Times, among other
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Georgia
Hughes
is editorial director at New World Library, where she acquires and edits nonfiction
books in the areas of animals, spirituality, personal growth, sustainable business,
animals, and women’s issues. New World Library, publisher of the bestselling
The Power of
Now and Creative Visualization, is a member of the Green Press
Initiative. Recent acquisitions include The Life
Organizer by Jennifer Louden, Dogs and the Women Who
Love Them by Allen and Linda Anderson, Live Your
Bliss by Terry Cole-Whittaker, SNAP: Making the Most of
First Impressions by Patti Wood, and Secret History of
Dreaming by Robert Moss. www.newworldlibrary.com |
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Breaking
Books
Bridget Kinsella has experienced the book publishing
business from many angles. For more than 17 years she has
covered the industry as a trade reporter for Publishers Weekly and Shelf Awareness. In 2007 her bestselling nonfiction book Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside was published by the Harmony imprint
at Random House. 2010
brings Bridget to the position of marketing & publicity manager at Cleis Press & Viva Editions in Berkeley--a position that the
press created specifically for her.
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PETER
BEREN
is a literary agent and a publishing consultant to
authors, self-publishers and independent publishers. Formerly Vice-President,
Publishing at Palace Press International, Publisher of Sierra Club Books and
Publisher of VIA Books, he has more than 30 years experience in the publishing
industry. He is the author or co-author of six books, including
The Writers Legal Companion and
California the Beautiful, he lives with
his wife, Susan McConnell, a publishing professional, in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
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Call Book Passage, Corte Madera (415) 927-0960 ext.1, to reserve.
The ticket price of $60 includes an outstanding lunch catered by Insalata’s
Restaurant & an autographed copy of Joyce Maynard’s book.
The Women’s
National Book Association launched National Reading Group Month in October of
2007 to celebrate the organization’s ninetieth birthday. This year, WNBA will
continue its tradition of promoting
women and the book and literacy in general by hosting events in their chapter
cities: Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York,
San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
Once again,
master storyteller, Joyce Maynard, has delivered a riveting
novel of domestic disturbance and fraught family relationships told in her
inimitably clear, compelling style. The premise of
THE GOOD DAUGHTERS is deceptively simple: Two baby girls
are born on the same day in 1950 in the same small New Hampshire
hospital. But they are born into families that could hardly have been less
alike. The echoes and aftershocks of this seemingly random occurrence will
resonate through the lives of the girls and their families––in ways both prosaic
and profound for decades.
THE GOOD
DAUGHTERS is a chronicle of the unlikely ways the two women’s
lives intersect––from childhood and adolescence to first loves, first sex,
marriage, and parenthood; from the deaths of parents to divorce, the loss of
home, and the loss of a beloved partner––until an unavoidable moment when a
long-held secret from the past alters everything.
WILLIAM
MORROW
About
the Author: Joyce Maynard has been a reporter for
The New
York Times, a magazine journalist, radio commentator, and syndicated
columnist, as well as the author of six novels and four books of nonfiction. Her
bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into
eleven languages. She lives in Mill Valley, California.
WNBA-SF is a non-profit
organization that fosters professional development and exposure of our members
through a variety of book-related programs, workshops, and hands-on
opportunities to make valuable contacts and connections that are beneficial at
any stage of one’s career. WNBA-SF is part of a National network
promoting the value of books and reading since 1917 throughout
ten chapters
stretching from coast to coast. Annual
Membership is $45.
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WNBA-SF is a non-profit
organization that fosters professional development and exposure of our members through a variety
of book-related programs, workshops, and hands-on opportunities to make valuable contacts and
connections that are beneficial at any stage of one’s career. WNBA-SF is part of a National
network promoting the value of books
and reading since 1917 throughout ten chapters stretching from
coast to coast. Annual Membership is
$45.
501(c) (3).
4061 East Castro Valley Blvd., #193
,
Castro Valley
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CA
94552
The Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco
Chapter (www.wnba-sfchapter.org) is a part of a rich literary
heritage. Started in 1917 in New York
City by a group of women booksellers who were excluded from
the annual booksellers' convention, WNBA was founded to unite and support women in the
book industry. Today, there are eight chapters across the nation and is a non-government
membership at the United Nations.
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