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All members are invited to attend our regularly scheduled board meetings on the 1st Thursday of each month at the San Francisco Main Public Library, 6-8 p.m., unless otherwise announced via email.

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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:  

  • JENNIFER JOSEPH - publisher and editor of Manic D Press 
  • PETER BEREN - literary agent and publishing consultant
  • BRIDGET KINSELLA - Breaking Books & navigating the publishing landscape
  • GEORGIA HUGHES - editorial director of New World Library 

     

  • 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 publications.  
 

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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  
 


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.

 

 

  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.  

 

 

 

 

Joyce Maynard Women's National Book Association

 

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 

An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 

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. 

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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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