Patricia V. Davis is the author of the bestselling “Harlot’s Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss and Greece,” and “The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know.” Her latest work, a novel with the working title COOKING FOR GHOSTS AND LOST LOVERS is represented by Fuse Literary Agency. Despite the diversity of Patricia’s writing projects, they share the universal theme of “female dynamism,” a term she’s coined which signifies women taking positive action to support each other and better the world around them. To that end, Patricia also founded The Women’s PowerStrategy™ Conference.

Lucille Lang Day’s memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story, received a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her poetry collections are Becoming an Ancestor, The Curvature of Blue, Infinities, Wild One, Fire in the Garden, and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, which received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She is also the author of a children’s book, Chain Letter, and four poetry chapbooks: God of the Jellyfish, The Book of Answers, Lucille Lang Day: Greatest Hits, 1975-2000, and Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, which received the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Atlanta Review, Calyx, The Cincinnati Review, Eclipse, The Hudson Review, Measure, Nimrod International Journal, River Styx, Tar River Poetry, The Threepenny Review, California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Heyday and Santa Clara University), Mother Songs (Norton), and New Poets of the American West (Many Voices).

Kathleen Archambeau

Kathleen Archambeau’s essay, “Seized,” appeared in a collection of 21 authors, entitled, The Other Woman, and edited by Victoria Zackheim. Of the book, Publishers Weekly said, “The main attraction…is the top-drawer writers…” The book was also featured on The Today Show, in People and O magazines and named by the LA Times Sunday Weekly one of the best books of its genre. Archambeau’s first book, Climbing the Corporate Ladder in High Heels, was featured in Forbes twice and endorsed by BareEscentuals CEO Leslie Blodgett and U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Archambeau started as a poet, studying intensely with Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth Woody. Derek Walcott and Robert Haas critiqued her poetry.

Currently, Archambeau is finishing her first novel, My Mother’s Silk Shoes, which will come out under her family name, Kathleen Moran. Kathleen lives with her Beloved and the family Labrador, a Guide Dog Career Change Puppy, Holly, in the SF Bay Area. 
http://www.climbingthecorporateladderinhighheels.com

Nina Amir

Nina Amir

Nina Amir, bestselling author of How to Blog a Book and The Author Training Manual, transforms writers into inspired, successful authors, authorpreneurs and blogpreneurs. Known as the Inspiration to Creation Coach, she moves her clients from ideas to finished books as well as to careers as authors by helping them combine their passion and purpose so they create products that positively and meaningfully impact the world. A sought-after author, book, blog-to-book, and results coach, some of Nina’s clients have sold 300,000+ copies of their books, landed deals with major publishing houses and created thriving businesses around their books. She writes four blogs, self-published 13 books and founded National Nonfiction Writing Month, aka the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge. http://ninaamir.com

Linda Lee

Linda Lee is online expert like no other. She is a writer, speaker, educator, and website designer who demystifies the online experience. Whether you are a novice or veteran Internet user, Linda can help you optimize and monetize your website.

She specializes in WordPress design, WordPress Websites, instruction, and problem shooting.  Linda and her team, have built over 200 websites for clients on the WordPress platform.

Linda is the founder of Smart Women Stupid Computers and Askmepc-Webdesign andWordPress Total Training, a full WordPress training course and support membership site for WordPress. She offers remote training domestically and internationally, helping hundreds of people  in Hong Kong, Australia, England, Scotland, Sweden and Canada. Linda’s clientele includes small and large business, you can view her portfolio here.

Linda Lee is one of the top webinar presenters for the Author Learning Center, a division of Penguin Publishing.

Launching in Summer 2013: WordPressTotalTraining.com a comprehensive WordPress training program with lifetime support, full support forum and over 65 videos and lessons that are guaranteed to always be up to date. Once you buy this training program, you will not need to look elsewhere to get the WordPress training and support you need.

Elizabeth Pomada

Elizabeth Pomada is a partner in Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents and a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives. The agency has sold books to more than 100 publishers. Elizabeth loves good storytelling. For her, a book begins when she can’t put it down. She welcomes the chance to represent adult fiction, narrative nonfiction, and books for women. Elizabeth and Mike are co-directors of the San Francisco Writers Conference. Elizabeth is the author of the 9^th edition of Fun Places to Go in Northern California with Children. Website: http://www.larsenpomada.com/

Michael Larsen

 Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents, is eager to find adult nonfiction for big and midsize houses and tell you how to transform your writing and your career. He is most drawn to well-written books with social or practical value by writers with platforms who can promote their work. The fourth edition of How to Write a Book Proposal will be out this year. An update is at http://www.larsenpomada.com/.  Mike wrote How to Get a Literary Agent and coauthored the second edition of Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling Your Work. He has a consulting service for nonfiction writers.