If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please consider attending this event: Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The 15th Annual Effie Lee Morris Lecture: TRICKSTERS!
Guest lecturer: Gerald McDermott – the Art of the Folktale
San Francisco Public Library, Lower Level, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), SF, CA http://www.sfpl.org

5:00pm Reception & Book Signing; 6:00pm Lecture presented FREE by
Children & Youth Services and the Fisher Children’s Center of the
San Francisco Public Library and Women’s National Book Assoc-SF
Chapter. Board members of WNBA (a co-sponsor of this lecture)
encourage all members (especially authors of children’s literature)
to attend this event… a tradition in San Francisco. Effie Lee Morris
founded the San Francisco Chapter of Women’s National Book
Association. This annual lecture is just one of the many legacies
Effie Lee Morris left for readers and writers.

I’ll be there!
Cheers to Author Victoria Pressley from Coach Teresa

I have just started reading this book and I love it. I’ve wanted to start a blog and a website for ages but I am not very technically astute and was having trouble figuring out how to start and what I wanted to say. Your book has been really helpful so far.

My goal is to write award winning children’s literature that kids want to read again and again. I am working on a few picture books and a YA no fiction proposal. I hope your book helps me pull together my ideas and form a website and blog that encompasses my passion s for reading and writing.

Thanks!
Victoria Pressley

I listened to you at the S.F. Writers Conference and bought your book… now I am recommending it to others – even small business owners who have no desire to write. The conference gave some great ideas and you give the plan! Thanks!
See my referral for you in the cut and paste email below…

From StartUp Women…
Next, Christina Schlachter shared what she learned at a recent conference: Build Your (profitable) Business: Top 5 things I learned from the San Francisco Writer’s Conference all small business owners can use!. Much of what she learned/shared can be applied to any profession, and included some low-cost or free channels to get your name out there. Christina has posted the content of her handout on our discussion board. Some additional tidbits that I jotted down:

* Christina recommended the book “Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW”
* Reserve the URL of your name now – even if you don’t know when you’ll use it. Recommended hosting vendors included Name.com (Boulder company!) and eNom.com
* Smashwords.com – an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers, usually free.