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In This Issue
From Our Chapter
President
WNBA-SF
News
Announcements
From Our Literacy
Liaison
Poet's Corner with Glenda Gwynn
Ewing
WNBA National
News
Link to Renew Membership (General
Member - $45)
Link to Renew Membership (Senior/Student -
$25)
WNBA-SF
News
Sonoma Book Festival
Don’t let your love of writing stop at the page! For one day put
down your pen, pick up your curiosity and perhaps a young niece,
nephew or child and spread your influence as a WNBA member to the
greater California literary community at the Sonoma Book
Festival.
A full day of creative literary Arts awaits you. Stop by the
WNBA booth, and say hello to exhibiting authors Elisa Southard:
Break Through the Noise, 9 Tools To Propel Your Marketing Message,
Teresa LeYung Ryan: Love Made of Heart, Janey Lee Caravallo:
Gilbert C. Hurry Home! I Just Want to Say I Love You, Gail
Johnston: The Social Cause Diet: Finding A Service That Feeds Your
Soul, Shyne: My Human Heart, and Mathilde A. Schmidt: My Life on
Two Continents and poet Lucy Lang Day: Fire in the Garden.
When: Saturday, Sept. 20, 2009,
10-4
Where: Downtown
Sonoma
Admission: FREE
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Member
News
WNBA-SF Board
Meeting
Our first board meeting will be held
Sept. 4th, 6 p.m. prior to the Kepler’s Mixer in
Menlo Park. Please contact Mary at president@wnba-sf-chapter.org
for a copy of the agenda before the meeting. All
members are welcome to attend board meetings. Some
board meetings will be held prior to WNBA-SF events
this year in an effort to conserve natural and human
resources. Please check the WNBA-SF web site calendar
for the date and location of the monthly board
meetings.
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Poetry
Reading
Joan Gelfand's new poetry
collection,
"A Dreamer's Guide to Cities and Streams"
will be out in September
San Francisco Bay Press, with offices in North Carolina and
San Francisco, is the publisher. Joan will be reading at
the Poetry
Salon at Sausalito Presbyterian Church on
Wednesday,
September 3 at 7:30 pm. On September 20th, she will
co-host the Literary Salon @ Mills College. For more
information see www.joangelfand.com.
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Book Release
Celebrate the release
of
The Last
Queen
by Christopher
Gortner
When: August 5, 2008. 7 p.m.
Where: Book Passage. 51 Tamal
Vista Blvd. Corte Madera, CA
94925
and
When: August 7, 2008. 7
p.m.
Where: West Portal Bookshop. 80 West Portal Avenue,
San Francisco, CA 94127
For more information click
here.
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Book
Signing
When: August 1, 2008, 7:00
pm
Where: Book Passage, 51 Tamal
Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera,
California
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New Book
Release Sneak Preview/Reading
Dark Card
by Rebecca Foust
(winner of the 2007 Robert
Phillips Poetry Prize)
Poetry about raising a son
with Asperger’s Syndrome
When: Saturday, Sept 13,
4:00-6:30 pm
Where: REBOUND BOOKSTORE, 1541
4th Street, San Rafael
To order this book click
here or call (800) 826-8911.
Rebecca Foust PO Box 399 Ross,
CA 94957 www.rebeccafoust.com
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Members of the Women's National Book
Association
Please join us for a workshop given by
Rosemary Daniell nationally known author
and writing coach on August 17 at the
beautiful Mechanics Institute in San
Francisco. Members of WNBA will be
given a special discounted price of
$45. This is a one-time opportunity.
Sign up now !!! See below for details.
How do
women find the time to write when
they’re taking care of everyone
else?
Join Award Winning Author,
Writing-and-Living Coach and Feminist
ROSEMARY
DANIELL
Rosemary Daniell is one of the great
writing teachers I have seen at work in the
country.” - Pat Conroy, author of The
Prince of Tides
A WRITING & LIVING
WORKSHOP
Based on her book: Secrets Of The Zona
Rosa: How Writing (And Sisterhood)
Can Change Women's Lives
When:
Sunday, August 17, 2008 1 p.m -4
p.m.
Where: Mechanics Library San Francisco (57
Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104)
Heal
Yourself (No Matter What May Have
Happened in the
Past)
Get
Younger Every Day (No Matter What
Your Age)
Realize
and Fulfill Your Dreams (No
Matter What’s Holding You
Back)
Live in
a Continual Creative Burst, Getting the
Most Joy Out of
Moment
And
Even Like 60 Other Zona Rosans, Become
a Published Author!
$45 for WNBA Members $55 non members
Beginning writers are welcome.
To register or for information, contact
Mary Lunning at lunni8@aol.com
or 510 581-8675.
ROSEMARY DANIELL FOUNDED ZONA
ROSA® over twenty-six years ago
when she invited four women to meet once a
month to talk about writing and life at her
little apartment in Savannah,
Georgia. Today, thousands of women,
and some men, have participated in Zona
Rosa workshops; Rosemary leads Zona Rosa
workshops and retreats all over the
country, as well as in Europe, where they
are dubbed “Pajama Parties for Grown-Up
Girls with Smarts”© (though the occasional
man been known to crash these, too!).
To date, over 60 Zona Rosans and counting
have become published and/or award-winning
authors, and others have achieved their
potential in other fields. Among the
authors are Cassandra King, author of THOSE
SAME SWEET GIRLS, and other popular
mainstream novels; John Berendt, who was
part the Savannah Zona Rosa group while
writing his multi-best-seller, MIDNIGHT IN
THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL; Best-selling
New York Times author Bruce Feiler, who
consulted with Rosemary before publishing
his first book, LEARNING TO BOW; and Eric
Haney, who took part in the Atlanta Zona
Rosa group while writing INSIDE DELTA
FORCE, which became the basis for the
television series, “The Unit.”
To
learn more about Rosemary, and her other
upcoming appearances, see her web page
at www.myzonarosa.com.
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Year at a
Glance
WNBA-SF Schedule of
Events:
Sept. 4 WNBA-SF (Peninsula)
Mixer 7-9 p.m. hosted by Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park
(www.keplers.com)
Please join us for our kick-off event of WNBA-SF
2008/09 year at Kepler’s Book Store in Menlo Park. This
is a membership networking opportunity as well as a
celebration of Kepler’s Books receiving the Pannell Award
from WNBA. The Lucile Micheels Pannell Award is given
annually since 1983 to bookstores that excel in
contributing to their communities in ways that bring
books and young people together. The 50-year-old
bookstore closed for a month in 2005, but a combination
of community support and revitalized in-store strategies
brought the business back to life. Refreshments will be
served on the red carpet in the newly renovated Kids
Korner and members of the Kepler’s staff will be on hand
to discuss the world of words with WNBA-SF members and
guests. A wine and hors d’oeuvres reception for WNBA-SF
members and guests is being provided by Kepler’s Books.
RSVP to president@wnba-sfchapter.org
by Sept. 1 to allow us to adequately prepare for
all of our guests attending this event.
Sept. 20 WNBA-SF at Sonoma County Book
Festival
Contact Elisa Southard at elisa@marketskills.com
if you would like to join the WNBA-SF contingent
at this popular summer event. Eight members of WNBA-SF
will exhibit at the festival. ($25 to
participate)
Oct. 25 WNBA-SF Panel event at San Mateo
Library
Mary “Shyne” Lunning is once again coordinating
a professional panel to present their advice to WNBA-SF
members and guests. Contact Mary at lunni8@aol.com for more information about this
event.
Nov. TBA WNBA Award Ceremony honoring
Kathi Kamen Goldmark Nov 8th
This year’s WNBA Award winner is San Francisco
resident Kathi Kamen Goldmark. Goldmark, a singer and
musician who was working part time as a media escort in
Los Angeles, driving authors around on their book tours,
came up with the idea of putting together a literary band
to give a benefit concert at a Los Angeles book fair in
1992. The band, known as The Rock Bottom Remainders,
includes some of today’s most popular authors such as Amy
Tan, Dave Barry, and Stephen King. The WNBA Award is
presented by the members of the Women's National Book
Association to "a living American woman who derives part
or all of her income from books and allied arts, and who
has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond
the duties or responsibilities of her profession or
occupation." The award was formerly known as the
Constance Lindsay Skinner Award. Its namesake was a
playwright, critic, editor, and author active from early
in the 20th century until her death in 1939. Eleanor
Roosevelt, Pearl Buck, Barbara Bush, Patricia Schroeder,
Nancy Pearl, Perri Klass and our own Effie Lee Morris
have all received this distinguished award. WNBA-SF will
have the honor of planning the reception for this year’s
winner here in San Francisco.
Nov. 14-16 WNBA-SF at California
Library Assn Conference in San Jose
WNBA-SF will have a booth at the California
Library Assn Conference in San Jose to share information
about our organization with the library association and
to continue the literary legacy of our founding
president, Ms. Effie Lee Morris. In March 2008 Ms. Morris
received ALA's highest honor of honorary membership in
the American Library Association in recognition for her vision, advocacy and
legacy to children’s services in public
libraries. This distinction is conferred in recognition
of outstanding contributions of lasting importance to
libraries and librarianship.
Dec. 2 WNBA-SF program featuring
Christine Comaford Lynch
Come join the Renegade Writer herself as she
discusses her writing career and gives us tips on how to
tackle our writing dilemmas.
Dec. TBA WNBA-SF Holiday
party
Don’t miss your chance to raise a glass of
holiday cheer and exchange a generous amount of good will
with all your WNBA-SF friends.
Jan. TBA WNBA-SF (East Bay)
Mixer
Another opportunity to gather writers and
readers together to discuss triumphs and challenges of
their writing life. Watch the web site for more
information about this event.
Feb. TBA Creativity
Workshop
This workshop is an invitation to PLAY! We’ll
explore new ways to think outside the box and connect to
your physical self and literary soul.
Mar. 28 Meet-the-Agents
Get your pitch ready folks. This is your chance
to have that long sought after face time with a real
agent. You have a manuscript, but are nervous about what
to say? You are in luck! This year as an added bonus
WNBA-SF members who need coaching around what to say will
have help. More information about this will be on the web
site soon.
April 16 Author Showcase
Our popular book preview will be chaired by
Elisa Southard. She is a Marketing Queen and will
undoubtedly have a wonderful “hook” to help us with
promotion. Whether your book is a tangible reality, or a
phantom dancing in your imagination, Elisa will offer
marketing advice to help you on your writing journey.
Watch the web site for more information about this
event.
May TBA WNBA-SF (Marin)
Mixer
Another opportunity to gather writers and
readers together to discuss triumphs and challenges of
their writing life. Watch the web site for more
information about this event.
June TBA Effie Lee Morris Children’s
Lecture
Established in 1977 as a tribute to our founding
president, this event is held at the San Francisco Public
Library and features authors in the Children’s Historical
and Research Collection.
Seeking meeting space…
Do you know a terrific restaurant in San
Francisco? Or, maybe an art gallery? A community room?
We’re looking for a venue to hold a dinner meeting, or
Saturday morning event - do you have any suggestions. We
need a room that would hold 75-100 people, on public
transportation, and preferably with parking near by.
Please contact Mary at president@wnba-sfchapter.org
with your suggestions.
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History
The Woman's National Book Association is a national
organization of women and men who work with and
value books. WNBA exists to promote reading and to
support the role of women in the community of the
book. The San Francisco Chapter of WNBA was founded
in 1968 by Effie Lee Morris, then coordinator of
Children's Services for the San Francisco Main
Public Library.
Membership has ranged from sixty to one hundred.
Our members are writers, booksellers, agents,
editors, publishers, publicists, librarians,
graphic designers, career coaches, marketing
specialists, conference planners, aspiring authors
and avid readers.
The San Francisco branch of WNBA is one chapter in
a vibrant organization with over 800 members across
the county. Each branch has its own flavor and
lively events to honor books, the creation of
books, the world of books, and allied arts.
The Women's National Book Association has been a
Non-Governmental Organization member of the United
Nations since 1959. An NGO is defined as "any
non-profit, voluntary citizens' group which is
organized on a local, national or international
level. Task-oriented and driven by people with a
common interest, NGOs perform a variety of services
and humanitarian functions, bring citizens'
concerns to governments, monitor policies and
encourage political participation at the community
level."
In effect, WNBA members are to be ambassadors for
the UN. Our organization disseminates information
about the United Nations through all the means at
our disposal, especially through our national and
chapter publications and monthly programs.
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From Our Chapter
President
 Dear WNBA-SF
Friends,
Summer has come to the Coastside and I spent a glorious afternoon
in the warm sun because I know tomorrow the fog will be back. I
hope you are able to enjoy a break from your routine as well. Our
40th Anniversary Gala was a wonderful experience and now it is on
to planning this year’s events. We have a fantastic line up of
opportunities for writers and readers to gather and support each
other in the coming months. Becoming a part of the board is a
wonderful way to meet people and learn about the organization.
Please feel free to contact anyone on the current board to discuss
board responsibilities. We are available to mentor and support
anyone who is interested in a board position. Of course sharing a
position is also an option, and volunteering for a specific event
is appropriate as well. Please consider becoming a part of our team
of dynamic women who know how to work hard, but also have a great
deal of fun in the process.
Be
well,
Mary
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From our Literacy
Liaison Dear WNBA Members and
Friends,
We want to cast a huge net for
your "promoting literacy" efforts.
Questions:
• Which library do you frequent, who is their "outreach"
person, and what is his/her contact info?
• Who's your favorite bookseller and what's their
website URL?
• What other organizations do you volunteer for?
Our goal is to create a resource list so that WNBA members can
support
each other while we support your passion to promote literacy.
Let's Grow Your Literacy Partnerships:
REACH OUT AND
READ
Email: Roya
Yasharpour
BRING ME A BOOK
BAY AREA LITERACY
PROJECT READ-SF CHAPTER
Please email us and we'll
showcase you in this Column. Please put "WNBA
and Literacy" in your subject line.
Be well.
Sincerely,
Patricia Costello & Teresa LeYung Ryan
LiteracyLiaison@wnba-sfchapter.org
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Poet's
Corner
Featuring
Glenda
Gwynn Ewing
Author of
Mirror of My
Soul
Greetings!
I feel privileged to be a new member of WNBA SF. I am so
looking forward to being active in contributing whatever I can to
the growth of the chapter. I am honored to be asked to send
this poem for the newsletter.
This poem titled "Mirror Of My Soul" is from my new book of true
love stories in poetic form under the same title; "Mirror Of My
Soul" the poetry of Glenda Gwynn Ewing. I am currently
polishing the manuscript for my new book of true short
stories. I have a new website in progress!! The web
address is: ggbliss.com, and ggbliss.net. For
information regarding my book, contact me:
ggblisspublishingkv@yahoo.com
I am truly excited about attending the Book Expo America event in
LA from May 29-June 1, 2008. This is the biggest expo in the
nation where authors, publishers, bookstore sellers from all over
the world will be netwoking their latest wares. I am an
attendee that hopes to see some familiar faces from the Bay Area
there!
Peace and Blessings!
Glenda
"Mirror Of My
Soul"
I love you from the depth of my heart
I truly long for you when we’re
Apart
I wonder when we kiss, and touch
And feel
If what you feel, is what I feel
And is it real
I’d like to know when you look
Into my eyes
If you see the same glisten as
The stars in the sky
I wonder when you’re making love
With me
If you’re giving your all
You can be
In the beginning
Right from the start
I was so afraid to open my heart
But you looked into my eyes
And entered the…
Mirror of my soul
Shared your heart and desires
Which have once again
Made me whole
When we are together
Everything feels so-oo right
I want to be the rays of sunshine
That makes even rainy days bright
Since I met you
I’ve found Love
Joy, adventure, and sheer delight
Now, I know you are happiness
My silver moon on any beautiful
Starlit
night
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Would like to be featured
as our Author Spotlight or in our Poet's
Corner?
Please email our newsletter
editor, Sara Cassella, at newsletter@wnba-sfchapter.org.
Announcements
Want to Save the
World?
The San Francisco
Writing for Change Conference Can
Help
Bestselling authors Lynn Andrews and Gay
Hendricks will be keynoters at the
San Francisco
Writing for Change Conference, August 16-17
at the Hotel Kabuki on Post Street
in Japantown. SFW4C is the first writers’
conference devoted to nonfiction books
about any kind of change from the personal
to the planetary. Also speaking are Marisa
Handler (Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an
Activist), Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker (Crazy Wisdom
Saves the World Again), Chris Carlsson
(Nowtopia), Susan Griffin (Wrestling with
the Angel of Democracy), and Allan
Hamilton, M.D. (The Scalpel and the
Soul).
New and
published writers will be able to meet and
learn from authors, editors and
agents. Writers can pitch their
books to agents and editors from
Tarcher/Penguin, St. Martin ’s, and John
Wiley, and Berrett-Koehler, and other
houses. The theme of the conference is
“Saving the World One Book at a Time” and
targets topics such as the environment,
health, spirituality, business, science,
politics, social issues, technology, global
issues, and personal development.
Registration will be $450, but is just $395
until August 1, which includes two
breakfasts and two lunches, all keynotes,
workshops and social events.
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Career Building
Opportunity
Do you want to make connections with New York
Publishers? Would you like to meet well established
authors? Do you have a few hours to spare for
WNBA?
We have an opening for a Chairperson for our
National Reading Group Month to be held in
October. NRGM was launched in Oct. 07 to much
media attention and great success. Read press
on www.wnba-books.org. Please
email LiteracyLiaison@wnba-sfchapter.org
for more
information.
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Submissions
Deadline
for the Fall
Bookwoman:
Bookwoman,
WNBA's national newsletter, is published 3 times
per year as a benefit to all chapter members and
industry professionals. Our mailing list is over
3,000. Deadline for submissions for the fall
issue is july 29th. Please send any
information regarding publications, awards,
appearances or honors to: joan@joangelfand.com
New Bookwoman submission
guidelines are now posted on the WNBA website on
the Bookwoman page, for members only.
Submission deadlines for the next three issues are
provided. First submissions are due August 1!
If you have not received your members only
password, please email president@wnba-sfchapter.org.
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Dues are due!
It’s time to renew your membership. Don’t
miss a single issue of the
Bookworm,
Bookwoman,
or an opportunity to enhance your
writing life by renewing today. It’s
easy and fast to do online with
PayPal; just visit our web site at
www.wnba-sfchapter.org.
Or, send your check for $45 to
WNBA-SF Chapter Membership, 4061 East
Castro Valley Blvd #193, Castro
Valley, CA 94552.
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Call for
Submissions
Sellingham Publishing
A Division of Sellingham, LLC
1855 Western Avenue
Albany, New York 12203
Please forward this call for submissions to your
writing colleagues.
The relationship between a mother and a child
offers us glimpses of complexity, fragility,
challenge and faith. The death of a mother
provides opportunity to reflect upon so much of
that complex world.
Sellingham Publishing is currently accepting
submissions for the publication of an anthology of
stories entitled "When Mother Died."
Below please find submission guidelines. If
you would prefer to receive this as an attachment
please send email to
SellinghamPublishing@yahoo.com. If you wish
to receive it via US Postal Service, please send a
self addressed stamped envelop to the following
address:
Corlis F. Carroll, Editor
Sellingham Publishing
1855 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12203
If you are submitting work, please send email
indicating your desire to participate in this
project to SellinghamPublishing@yahoo.com.
This helps us to prepare our editorial staff with
regard to the quantity of work anticipated.
Submissions will only be accepted until July 31,
2008. It is the editor's belief that
submissions challenged by an urgency due to limited
time constraints convey an authenticity and edge to
the work that contributes to an enhanced quality
that lengthy deadline options can otherwise
compromise.
Submissions must be non-fiction and can be in the
form of poetry, eulogy or memoir.
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WNBA will be reading at
LITQUAKE
2008
Litquake is a city wide literary arts festival
that attracts over 6500 attendees who come to
listen to more than 300 authors read from their
own work over a period of 9 days in October.
The festival has grown in size exponentially
since its inception 9 years ago. The
culminating event of Litquake is Lit Crawl, a
Saturday night event that has the Mission
crawling with book lovers!
The event will take place on Saturday, October
11th, 6-7pm at Forest Books in the Mission
District of San Francisco.
More details coming!
Please e mail me:
joan@joangelfand.com
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PLOT WRITING
WORKSHOP
by
Martha Alderson
The following plot workshop takes place in Los Angeles.
Martha hopes you might forward the info to any writer
friends you have in Southern California.
Sat. August 23 and Sun. Aug 24, 2008
10am-3pm
2-Day PLOT WRITING
WORKSHOP by Martha Alderson hosted by WRITERS STORE in
LA
Martha Alderson brings us a workshop not to be missed,
bringing her expertise to Southern California. This plot
workshop will benefit writers of all kinds: Screenwriters,
Novelists, and Memoirists.
-Develop a multi-layered plot for the overall story
level
-Deepen character development and dramatic action at the
scene level
11AM to 4PM
Saturday
Plot springs from character in conflict. Develop an action,
character, and thematic plot, and apply the universal
structure of story for your own individual story. No
project started? You'll be given everything you need.
11AM to 1PM
Sunday
Fully integrate all aspects of plot to create unity in your
project. Writers are invited to bring their scenes to be
used as example.
About Martha
Alderson:
Martha Alderson, M.A., is an award-winning writer of
historical fiction, a writer's coach, and plot consultant.
She teaches plot writing workshops privately and through
Learning Annex, UC Santa Cruz Extension, Writing Salon and
writers conferences. Join Martha to explore the critical
relationship between characterization and plot in the
comfort of your own home.
http://blockbusterplots.com/workshops.html
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WNBA-SF Chapter Board
Members Co-Presidents: Mary E. Knippel and Linda
Lee
president@wnba
-sfchapter.org
Vice President: Open
vicepresident@wnba-sfchapter.org
Treasurer: Allegra Harris
treasurer@wnba-sfchapter.org
Literacy Liaison: Teresa LeYung Ryan literacyliaison@wnba-sfchapter.org
Membership Chair: Mary "Shyne" Lunning membership@wnba-sfchapter.org
Newsletter Editor: Sara Cassella
newsletter@wnba-sfchapter.org
Publicity Chair: Barbara Whittaker
Hospitality Chair :
Vicki
Weiland
Founding
Member: Effie Lee Morris
WNBA National Board
Members
President:
Joan
Gelfand
joan@joangelfand.com
Past
President: Laurie Beckelman
lbeckleman@aol.com
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