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March 23rd, 2013 | Author: admin
Writers at “Pitch-O-Rama: Meet the Agents, Editors, and Publishers” – San Francisco, CA
Pitch your novel, memoir, biography, autobiography, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, graphic novel, romance, how to, children’s book, etc.
April 13, 2013 morning in San Francisco “Pitch-O-Rama: Meet the Agents, Editors, and Publishers” – register through Women’s National Book Association (Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Mary E. Knippel and Catharine Bramkamp will be coaching attendees before and after they pitch)
Peter Beren
Nancy Fish
Tory Hartmann
Brenda Knight
Michael Larsen
Linda Joy Myers
Elizabeth Pomada
Lara Perkins
Alan Rinzler
Andy Ross
Brooke Warner
Erin Wiegand
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Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: "Hook attention with your themes, the four Ws (what, who, when, where) and who YOU are . . . when you pitch to agents, acquisition editors, and publishers."
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Coach Mary E. Knippel says: "If you're given only 6 minutes with an agent, use your time wisely. Save 3 minutes for the agent to give you advice."
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**April 13, 2013 in San Francisco “Small Press Publishers Panel & Luncheon” – register through Women’s National Book Association (must also register for “Pitch-O-Rama” in order to attend luncheon)
Brooke Warner of She Writes Press and Brenda Knight of Cleis Press & Viva Editions
Featured Authors: Betsy Graziani Fasbinder and Maggie Oman Shannon
In both her works of memoir and fiction, Betsy Graziani Fasbinder explores the unending complications of people living, working, and loving one another. Her debut novel is a dark love story, lightened with the balm of humor and tempered with the comfort of deep and true friendship. Fire & Water (She Writes Press, March 2013) is Kate Murphy’s story of navigating the treacherous territory of passionate love with friendship and family devotion as the only anchor that can keep her from losing all. Betsy will have her book for sale and signing.
Maggie Oman Shannon is an interfaith minister, spiritual director, and workshop and retreat facilitator. She is the author of five books, including Prayers for Healing. She is serving as the spiritual director of the Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco. In Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation, a D.I.Y. guide to peace of mind, Maggie Oman Shannon explores crafts and creativity as a spiritual practice providing enormous benefits. Shannon takes a rich “potpourri approach” that weaves together interviews, historical facts, “Soul Craft” projects for readers, quotations, and suggested resources with a broad assortment of spiritual practices gathered from crafts communities around the world, as well as from everyday people who have adopted creative forms of spiritual practice.
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**Many thanks to Committee Co-Chair Kate Farrell (WNBA-SF Chapter VP) and Committee Members Linda Lee (WNBA-SF Chapter Co-President), Linda Joy Myers (WNBA-SF Chapter Co-President), Betsy Fasbinder, Jane Glendinning, Sherry Nadworny, Susan Pace-Kochand, Catharine Bramkamp, and Mary E. Knippel (Past President) ! Many thanks to WNBA-SF Chapter Membership Chair Ana Manwaring, Blog Editor Patricia V. Davis, Social Media Manager Frances Caballo, Secretary Teresa LeYung-Ryan, and Immediate-Past-President Lynn Henriksen too!
See you there!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan cares about helping fiction and nonfiction writers build their platforms and work on their craft simultaneously with ease. She says: “Wear the dual hats as promoter and writer and be happily published. Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
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March 16th, 2013 | Author: admin
Lists of Books Referenced in Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s & Mary E. Knippel’s “Be Your Own Editor” session at SFWC
Tool #1 Grounding Reader with the four Ws (Who? When? Where? What?) “What does Protagonist want?” (in prescriptive nonfiction “What does Reader need?”)
Tool #2 Hooking Reader from first page to last with core themes.
Tool #3 In Fiction & Narrative Nonfiction (both genres are forms of “story-telling”) — Who are your protagonist, antagonist(s), and other archetypes?
Fiction:
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Lost In Yonkers – a play by Neil Simon
Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer! children’s picture book by Frances Kawugawa
Love Made of Heart – mother-daughter novel by Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Charlotte’s Web – a children’s classic by E. B. White
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever by Judith Marshall
Narrative Nonfiction:
Woven of Water by Luisa Adams
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Secret Artist – Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine! by Mary E. Knippel
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother – anthology edited by Kate Farrell
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
A Joyful Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me by Lynn Scott
A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams (poetry) by Joan Gelfand
Prescriptive Nonfiction:
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life – photo/gift book by Margie Yee Webb
Break Through the Noise: 9 Tools to Propel Your Marketing Message by Elisa Sasa Southard
My Dreams: A Simple Guide to Dream Interpretation by Angie Choi
Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW by Teresa LeYung-Ryan
The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master by Martha Alderson
TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir: How To Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing Character & Spirit by Lynn Cook Henriksen
Correct Me If I’m Wrong: Getting Your Grammar, Punctuation, and Word Usage Right! by Arlene Miller
Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books by Frances Caballo
The Book Reviewer Yellow Pages: A Book Promotion Reference Guide for Authors and Small Press Publishers by Christine Pinheiro e-book published by http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net
How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen
The Power of Memoir by Linda Joy Myers
Marriage Meeting Starter Kit by Marcia Naomi Berger
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Secret Artist – Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine! by Mary E. Knippel
Also, please refer to the SFWC list of presenters
Mary E. Knippel & Teresa LeYung-Ryan teach 'Be Your Own Editor' at SFWC - photo by Margie Yee Webb
Free Webinars – register with https://www.authorlearningcenter.com
3 Top Tools for Editing Your Manuscript After You’ve Written Your First Draft with Coach Teresa
· April 10, 2013 at 10:30am Pacific Time / 1:30pm Eastern Time
· April 25, 2013 at 4:30pm Pacific Time / 7:30pm Eastern Time
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan cares about helping fiction and nonfiction writers build their platforms and work on their craft simultaneously with ease. She says: “Wear the dual hats as promoter and writer and be happily published. Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
Posted in About Teresa Jade LeYung aka Teresa LeYung Ryan, Art / Craft / Teaching, writing-career coach / manuscript consultant / writing coach / editor/ book doctor / author / writer's life / publisher |
Tags: 2013, Angie Choi, Anne Tyler, Arlene Miller, Be Your Own Editor, Billie Letts, Brenda Ueland, Build Your Writer's Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days, Christine Pinheiro, E.B.White, Elisa "Sasa" Southard, Elizabeth Gilbert, Frances Caballo, Frances Kawugawa, Joan Didion, Joan Gelfand, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Judith Marshall, Kate Farrell, Linda Joy Myers, Lists of Books Referenced, Lori Hope, Love Made of Heart, Luisa Adams, Lynn Cook Henriksen, Lynn Scott, Marcia Naomi Berger, Margie Yee Webb, Martha Alderson, Mary E. Knippel, Mary Shelley, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael Larsen, Neil Simon, Sarah Ban Breathnach, SFWC, Teresa LeYung Ryan, The Secret Artist: Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine! |
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February 10th, 2013 | Author: admin
Superstar Line-up of Volunteers at San Francisco Writers Conference
For a complete list of names and photos of these talented and generous folks, please go to:
http://askmepc.com/sfwc-volunteers/2013-volunteer-directory/
SFWC Volunteer Director Linda Lee! And Jane Glendinning!
| Laura Bean |
Laura Bean
Laura Bean spent ten years practicing Tibetan Buddhism with a Canadian lama in Kyoto, Japan. She edited a collection of his dharma talks entitled Dharma If You Dare, which will soon be in print. Laura is a published poet, journalist, and performance artist. Her monologues and a play entitled Love, Sex, and Hollow, Holy Places have been performed on stages in New York City, Cali, Colombia, and Kyoto, Japan.
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| Tessa Bertoldi |
Tessa Bertoldi
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| Catharine Bramkamp |
Catharine Bramkamp
Catharine Bramkamp is a successful book coach and author. She is a dynamic speaker covering subjects as diverse as NaNoNowWhat? to the Evolution of Language to working through writing blocks. She works with clients creating both fictional works (Three clients have published four books) and non-fiction (one client has published two books). She lives in Sonoma County with her husband.
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| marty castleberg |
marty castlebergWebsite: [http://davelandthebook.wordpress.com/]
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| Paula Chinick |
Paula Chinick
Paula Chinick, current president of CWC Tri-Valley Branch spent the majority of her career in Information Technology as a project manager working for various Fortune 500 companies. She holds an MBA from John F. Kennedy University in International Business. After the economy collapsed, she decided to retire and pursue her greatest passion – writing. Paula has contributed short stories to several anthologies and is currently working on her first novel, Red Asscher, a three-part spy thriller series.
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| Kellie Edson |
Kellie Edson
Kellie has her bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Music. She graduated with honors in 2011 and has started the Meeting and Event Planning Certificate Program at CCE. She is the Academic Programs Marketing Coordinator for the College of Continuing Education (CCE) at Sacramento State. A jack of many trades, she also is also a part time Zumba instructor, blogger and plays softball. Much how she feels about music, she also loves writing and reading all formats and genres and is still finding her own place in the literary world. This will be her 4th year volunteering at SFWC, and prior to that she was a volunteer for 3 years at the Maui Writer’s Conference.
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| Kimberly A. Edwards |
Kimberly A. Edwards
Kimberly A. Edwards (kimberlyedwards00@comcast.net) writes articles for local, national and international markets on cross-cultural issues, lifestyle and seniors, coordinating events, working with boards and committees, and presentation strategies. Print credits amassed over 30 years include: Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Senior Spectrum, The Times of India, International Travel News, Sacramento News and Review, The Sacramento Bee, and Independent (Book Publishers Association, IBPA), and sales magazines. Recently, her “Tapping into Twitter Expertise ” was selected for IBPA’s ebook, The Book Publishers Toolkit: 10 Practical Pointers for Independent and Self Publishers. Work continues on her novel, The Year of Black and White, inspired by true events in 1960. Kimberly serves as an officer for the California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch. She heads the Seminar Committee, bringing known names to the community. Recently she retired from the California Department of Education where she enlisted corporate sponsors; put on large conferences; coordinated California Teachers of the Year, National Blue Ribbon Schools, the Milken Family Foundation Educators Program; and crafted a “Noon Hour with a Local Author” series.
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| Audrey Fairchild |
Audrey Fairchild
Audrey is a full time English teacher in Hillsborough, and a crisis intervention and suicide hotline counselor for San Mateo County. She received her Ph.D. in 2001, and her counseling practice is in downtown San Mateo. She attended Santa Clara University for her Counseling Psychology and MFT licensure. She is an active member of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the Northern California Writer’s Association. She is currently writing a self help guide for parenting preteens and provides presentations on a variety of parenting topics.
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| Tara Farquhar |
Tara Farquhar
Writing is the one staple that has stayed with me throughout my life. Writing is breath, sanity and joy. I have an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. I write memoir, fiction and poetry.
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| Kate Farrell |
Kate Farrell
Kate Farrell earned a Masters degree from UC-Berkeley; is an author, teacher, librarian, and storyteller and has published numerous educational materials. Kate is the founder of Wisdom Has a Voice memoir project http://wisdomhasavoice.com/ and editor of the anthology, Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother, 2011. She’s a member of the Redwood Branch of the California Writer’s Club, Story Circle Network, the National Association of Memoir Writers, and is Vice-President of the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter. Currently, Kate is working with Linda Joy Myers and Amber Lea Starfire on a new anthology: Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s & 70s to be released in June 2013.
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| Betsy Graziani Fasbinder |
Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
In both her works of memoir and fiction, Betsy Graziani Fasbinder explores the unending complications of people living, working, and loving one another. As a practicing therapist for more than twenty years, she has been witness to the heartbreak, healing, and heroism of people from all walks of life. She strives to create stories that bring the emotional truths she’s experienced and observed to the pages in all of her writing. Betsy has been awarded the Floyd Salas Award for Fiction, and has been honored with a Jack London award and two East of Eden awards for both fiction and memoir pieces. Four of her works have been produced as Readers’ Theater in the historic Nevada Theater in Nevada City, California. She is the co-producer of The Women’s Writing Salon in Nevada County. Her first novel, Fire and Water, will be released by She Writes Press on March 1, 2013. She’s working now on a collection of memoir stories and a new novel set in California’s Wine Country, a great excuse for some wine tasting. Research, only for research.
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| Lynn Henriksen |
Lynn Henriksen
Lynn Cook Henriksen, aka The Story Woman, discovered a profound way to keep our mothers’ spirits alive by helping hundreds of daughters and sons capture in brief memoirs the memories and feelings they never thought they could record. She is the author of the award-winning guidebook, TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir: How to Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing Character & Spirit.
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| Julaina Kleist-Corwin |
Julaina Kleist-Corwin
Julaina Kleist-Corwin has won five short story contest awards. She is a writing teacher for the City of Dublin, CA and a field Supervisor for teachers working toward their credentials. Her short stories are in several anthologies, the most recent is Harlequin’s A Christmas Miracle. Current writing projects are a novel called Hada’s Fog and an anthology, A Class of Muses, due to be published this year.
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| Danine Manette |
Danine Manette
My name is Danine Manette and I am a seven year volunteer for the SFWC. I am an infidelity expert and the author of Ultimate Betrayal: Recognizing, Uncovering and Dealing with Infidelity. Working at the SFWC provided me with an opportunity to connect with countless contacts. Additionally, I learned how to develop a platform that enabled me to go from being a self published author to landing a book deal and appearing on a host of television programs such as the Oprah Winfrey Show and NBC’s Today Show. I look forward to continuing this journey in 2013.
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| Rebecca Martin |
Rebecca Martin
Rebecca Martin, founder and CEO of California based dear jane Inc. a career services company, believes that people can succeed in navigating through corporate and business environments, as well as their career transitions if they can first identify what is right for them. She is dedicated to helping and coaching management and individuals, and is extremely passionate about the career management and human capital industries.
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| Carmen Micsa |
Carmen Micsa
Born and raised in Romania, Carmen Micsa moved to America in 1995 and chose to write about her old life in communist Romania and her new life in America. She earned a BA and MA degree in English (Creative Writing) from Sacramento State University. Besides writing, Carmen MIcsa enjoys being a mother to her two beautiful children Alex and Sophia. She owns her own real estate company and prides herself for being organized and efficient in leading a balanced life. Freedom Rocks is Carmen’s first book/memoir that she’s hoping to publish in 2013. She also writes short fiction, travel articles, and picture books. When she is not reading and writing, Carmen Micsa and her children train in Taekwondo and are close to receiving their black belts. She also was one of the top five in Northern California Women’s 4.00 Tennis in 2011 and 2012. Besides tennis, Carmen loves to bike and has done 100K and century (100 miles) bike rides for the last 6 years in a row for Diabetes Tour de Cure in memory of her beloved father. An enthusiastic, energetic, and outgoing mother, wife, daughter, writer, real estate broker, and friend, one of Carmen’s favorite quotes is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s: “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” She also applies the lessons learned from Anatole France, who said: “To accomplish one’s goals, one must dream, as well as act.”
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| Lori Noack |
Lori Noack
Associate Director of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, Lori Noack has over twenty years of non-profit leadership experience, along with independent writing, editing, consulting, and arts management expertise. In addition to serving on governing and cultural boards from local to state levels, her professional positions have included executive director of nationally recognized music festivals in Oregon and San Francisco, newspaper editor, founder of an arts management agency, university lecturer, and writing instructor. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing in 2009. Today, Lori applies her expertise in building AWWP’s North American team to ensure program excellence and enhance public awareness for the benefit of women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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| Andrew Rose |
Andrew Rose
I am a first teacher in Sacramento. I grew up in Modesto, California. After high school graduation, I worked as a clown for two years in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. I then obtained a BA degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts from San Francisco State University. I also earned a teaching credential there. In addition, I hold an MA in Communication at CSU Stanislaus.
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| Sue Ross |
Sue Ross
It is rumored that the first word SUE ROSS ever uttered gave her such satisfaction that she said it twice, “Author! Author!” Finding stories in everything she does, Sue has made her living as a non-profit administrator and small business owner throughout her career. Her checkered past has provided her with opportunities to revel in language, whether through structured business plans, reports, grant applications, marketing materials (print and online); or speeches, presentations, and letters that lift and inspire. Currently, she is revising her manuscript for GOLANSKI’S TREASURES, a character-driven novel about a Holocaust survivor who travels to Poland to reconnect with his past, and discovers that the choices we make frame our destiny – and the treasures we seek are not always what we might anticipate. To avoid postpartum blues, once the book is finished work will begin on a prequel to the novel. Sue is intent in focusing her life on writing and is a member of: the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA – SF Chapter,) California Writers Club (Redwood Writers), and a Sonoma Scribes critique group. She had two extraordinary recent experiences that expanded her understanding of the world of writing and publishing in today’s rapidly changing world — her second (2012) SF Writers Conference and a 2012 “Meet the Agents” event presented by WNBA. Sue also sits on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Sonoma State University, is a member of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa, California, and served as the Vice President for Development and Public Relations at Spertus Center for Jewish Learning in Chicago. Sue currently lives in Santa Rosa with her fiancé, dog and two cats.. Sue’s writing is inspired by one of her personal heroes, Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, ELIE WIESEL, who said, “Are we so naïve as to think that we can bring peace to the world through words? Yes we are. What else do we have?”
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| Angela Tung |
Angela TungA former corporate cog, Angela Tung now writes full-time. Her work has appeared in CNN Living, The Frisky, Asian Cha Magazine, Matador Life, The Nervous Breakdown, and various anthologies, including The Beautiful Anthology which was recently featured in The New York Times’ Best Bathroom Books of 2012. She also blogs about words and language for Wordnik. Her latest book, Black Fish: Memoir of a Bad Luck Girl, chronicles the failed marriage between a Chinese woman and Korean man, both American-born but bound by old world traditions. Black Fish has been called “a work of dark enchantment, in which history, magic, and fate loom as large as character and desire,” and “a beautiful, cultural tapestry that keeps the reader riveted.” It was shortlisted for the 2010 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Black Fish is available now in both paperback and ebook. She has an MS in Library Science from the Pratt Institute, an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she was the fiction fellow, and a BA in English from Barnard College.
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| Margie Yee Webb |
Margie Yee Webb
Margie Yee Webb is the author/photographer of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life, a gift book for cat lovers and their finicky friends! The Sacramento Bee wrote: “The El Dorado Hills writer-photographer imparts words of wisdom, accented with pictures of her rescued cat.” As a co-creator of Not Your Mother’s Book . . . On Cats, she is seeking true, funny, silly and endearing cat stories of between 500 to 2,500 words. The submission deadline for Cats is May 1, 2013. Not Your Mother’s Book (NYMB) is a new anthology for a new century from Publishing Syndicate, with 30-plus titles needing hip, fun and modern stories. Titles released by Publishing Syndicate include NYMB . . . On Being a Woman, NYMB . . . On Being a Stupid Kid and NYMB . . . On Dogs. For submission guidelines and to submit stories, visit www.PublishingSyndicate.com. Margie is past president of California Writers Club–Sacramento Branch (CWC–Sacramento) and received the Jack London Award for outstanding service. Currently, she serves on the CWC–Sacramento board of directors and as CWC vice president. She is also a member of Cat Writers’ Association (CWA), Northern California Publishers & Authors Association (NCPA), Women’s National Book Association–San Francisco Chapter, and Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. In the CWA 2011 Communications Contest, Margie was awarded Certificates of Excellence for “Gift” and for “Color Photographs (series)” for Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings. She received “Best Nonfiction 2012-Gift” and “Best Book Design 2012, 2nd Place” in the NCPA Awards.
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I so look forward to seeing Everyone involved with SFWC! This is the 10th anniversary too!
SFWC Co-Founders & Co-Directors:
Elizabeth Pomada
Michael Larsen
Marketing/Newsletter Director: Barbara Santos
Registration/Website Director: Richard Santos
Finance/Auction/Contest/Tech Director: Laurie McLean
Volunteer Director: Linda Lee
SFWC Freelance Editor Coordinator Mary E. Knippel
SFWC ADVISORY BOARD
Kathleen Antrim, Author/ThrillerFest VP National Events
Andrea Brown, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Constance Hale, Author/journalist
Evan Karp, Quiet Lighning
Harvey Pawl, businessman
Sheldon Siegel, New York Times Best Selling Author/Attorney
Alan Rinzler, consulting and freelance editor
Elisa Sasa Southard, Author/speaker
Joyce Turley, Dimensional Reading
Peter Wiley, Chairman of the Board, John Wiley & Sons
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Friday Feb. 15, 2013, 9:00-9:45am at San Francisco Writers Conference
“GETTING TO FIRST BASE BY BUILDING YOUR FANBASE”
presented by: Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase in 22 Days and SFWC Advisory Board Member Elisa “Sasa” Southard, Break Through the Noise: 9 Tools to Propel Your Marketing Message (balloons in this interactive session)
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Sunday Feb. 17, 2013, 10:00-10:45am at San Francisco Writers Conference
“BE YOUR OWN EDITOR: Ensuring Agents and Editors Love Your Work”
presented by: Writing Coach/Manuscript Consultant Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase in 22 Days; Love Made of Heart and Your-Writing-Mentor/The Writer Unleashed Mary E. Knippel, The Secret Artist: Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine!
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.” http://writingcoachteresa.com
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan on CBS Bay Sunday with Host Frank Mallicoat
Writers’ Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryansays:
Click here to read the interview with Coach Teresa for StepByStepPublishing
Posted in About Teresa Jade LeYung aka Teresa LeYung Ryan, Art / Craft / Teaching, writing-career coach / manuscript consultant / writing coach / editor/ book doctor / author / writer's life / publisher |
Tags: 2013, Andrew Rose, Angela Tung, Audrey, Be Your Own Editor, Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, Carmen Micsa, Catharine Bramkamp, Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan, Danine Manette, Elisa "Sasa" Southard, Ensuring Agents and Editors Love Your Work, Fairchild, February, GETTING TO FIRST BASE BY BUILDING YOUR FANBASE, Jane Glendinning, Julaina Kleist-Corwin, Kate Farrell, Kellie Edson, Kimberly A. Edwards, Laura Bean, Linda Lee, Lori Noack, Lynn Henriksen, Margie Yee Webb, Marty Castleberg, Mary E. Knippel, Paula Chinick, Rebecca Martin, Sue Ross, Superstar Line-up of Volunteers at San Francisco Writers Conference, Tara Farquhar, Tessa Bertoldi, The Writer Unleashed Mary E. Knippel, Your-Writing-Mentor |
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January 13th, 2013 | Author: admin
Coach Teresa says: “Fortify Your Platform with New Tags for Your Books and All Your Writings.”
How do you attract new fans? When your friends and colleagues brag about you? Yes! What else? How do you help your prospective fans find you? By making your name synonymous with the issues / themes / subject matter you write about? Yes!! After all, when folks need something, don’t they go to search engines and type keywords and key phrases (aka “tags”) to find what they need? Those folks will find you through the tags associated with your name!
Here’s an excellent example — let’s look at author Wendy D. Walter and her tags. Wendy writes fantasy / adventure stories for young adults / teens. Her protagonist is fourteen-year-old Ambril Derwyn.
I hosted Wendy D. Walter (author of Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith) in a live-blog event on January 5, 2013. Nineteen fans (old and new) showed up to greet her and cheer for her and to ask questions.
Thank you, Anne M. Beggs, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Christopher Wachlin, Deborah Taylor-French, Diane LeBow, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, Eugenia Budman, Eve Visconti, Janine, Jean Morrow, Kate Farrell, LakshmiLove, Linda C. McCabe, Margie Yee Webb, Maria, Tera, Thonie Hevron, Yolande Barial, for participating on January 5th, 2013!
To see complete questions and answers and comments from please click on: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/please-help-me-welcome-author-wendy-d-walter-to-this-live-blog-appearance/
To read my interview with Wendy, please click on:
Here are some tags associated with Wendy D. Walter’s writings
- Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith
- father’s death
- half-truth
- ancient Celtic magic and nature-based magic
- introverts
- Global Warming, rising seas, raging storms
- Utah in the middle of winter
- taking on the bullies
- fictional California town Trelawnyd
- fantasy stories
- monsters
- young adult Y/A
- secret warriors
- human morality
Thank you,Wendy, for having written a compelling story. What a page-turner!
Look for more “tags” in Wendy D. Walter‘s answers to the questions asked by fans:
“My all time favorite writer is Jane Austen. It’s been over 200 years since she was first published and her stories still enthrall me. From her books, I learned that the most important thing a writer can do is to make your readers care about what happens to your character and to never underestimate your reader.”
“I’m also a great admirer of Diana Wynne Jones, my favorite fantasy writer. She also never underestimated her readers and gave us incredibly intricate and original stories. Her books are often funny as well!”
“And that is why Ambril’s Tail has a very robust plot, with lots of twists and turns and strives to be humorous as often as possible!”
“Some of my characters are right out of my imagination, but some of them have roots in mythology. The Aunties, for instance, are the seers of the story, who share one pair of glasses. Perseus runs into three crones who share one eye and a tooth in one of his adventures, but groupings of three witches/hags/seers appear in all sorts of ancient Nordic and Germanic stories as well!”
“The Cerberus, the guardians of the underworld, is one of my favorite Greek legends.”
“I’m not sure why this is, but if you take a simple bullying exchange off the playground in our world and give the characters fangs and fairy wings, the issue becomes much clearer. In fantasy, we get a bit heavy handed at times and tend to make our bullies actual monsters (it’s more fun that way). Also, as bullying is an obvious abuse of power, it works well within worlds where it’s clear who the good and bad guys are, at least most of the time! Check out the Q & A Teresa posted on this blog for more on bullying: http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/coach-teresas-interview-questions-for-author-wendy-d-walter-ambrils-tale-the-return-of-the-dullaith/ Bullying appears to be a behavior that some mistake for strength, particularly the immature (of all ages).”
“And there is a great male main character called Ygg. My beta readers all chose him as their favorite character!”
“Ambril’s Tale is for the 10-14 marketplace, just right for middle schoolers!”
Get your copy of Wendy D. Walter's book or ask your library to carry it!
Where to Find the book Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith:
http://www.amazon.com/Ambrils-Tale-Return-Dullaith-ebook/dp/B008EALE3A/
Ambril’s Tale, Return of the Dullaith at Barnes and Noble
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/174750
“Book 2, Ambril’s Tale, Riding the Cursed Shoots, is coming out in March, 2013!”
Cheers to Wendy D. Walter, protagonist Ambril and everyone she cares about!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
As author of Love Made of Heart, creator of Love Made of Heart gift items and the “Talking to My Dead Mom Monologues,” Teresa encourages writers to speak out (in print) for those who cannot speak for themselves.
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW , Teresa says: “Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
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October 20th, 2012 | Author: admin
September through October 14, 2012
Platform-Building and Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “My deep gratitude to colleagues who have endorsed me on LinkedIn in September and October 2012. If other colleagues / clients have endorsed me but I haven’t received notification, please let me know by emailing me or submitting a comment to this post. Thank you so much! To submit a comment: click on the headline/title bar of this post, scroll down to the end of this post, fill in the boxes, and press the [submit comment] button.”
I thank:
Barbara Toboni – video of Barbara reading her poetry
Carol Sheldon, author, playwright, actress, poet, novelist; Carol’s mystery Mother Lode received BAIPA award for Best Fiction
Elaine Webster President of Redwood Writers; author of multiple books
Kathryn (Kay) Mehl Miller – author of Living with the Stranger In Me: An Exploration of Aging
Kim McMillon – playwright, Arts In the Valley radio show producer, event producer, teaching assistant at U.C. Merced. Kim is flying to Hawaii to help Vince McMillon, creator of the 1st Annual Hilo Coconut Festival, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 at Mokuola (Coconut Island). Free to the public.
Linda C. McCabe – author of the historical novel Quest of the Warrior Maid
Mary E. Knippel, founder of The Unleashed Homemaker
Mona Mechling – memoirist; creator of The Fridge Magnet Chronicles
Sandy Baker – author of Mrs. Feeny & the Grubby Garden Gang
Steve (Fredericks) Liddick – author at Top Cat Publications
Thonie Hevron – Suspense stories that navigate the murky waters of right and wrong–on both sides of the law
Here are some organizations that connect these colleagues to me:
California Writers Club – Santa Rosa Branch aka Redwood Writers
California Writers Club – Marin Branch
California Writers Club – Sacramento Branch
California Writers Club – San Francisco Peninsula Branch
Writers Forum Petaluma with Marlene Cullen
Wisdom Has A Voice with Kate Farrell
National Association of Memoir Writers with Linda Joy Myers
Women’s National Book Association
Have you seen Coach Teresa interviewed by Frank Mallicoat on CBS Channel 5?
Cheering for writers and readers and everyone who has a story in her/his heart!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
author of Love Made of Heart – the mother/daughter love story
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
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June 21st, 2012 | Author: admin
The Woman in the Photograph; Girl in the Mirror; Woman in My Dream
Good Day! Coach Teresa here . . .
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Dear friend Diane Ichiyasu emailed me about Mani Feniger‘s new book The Woman in the Photograph
For more information about Mani and her events http://manifeniger.com
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Girl In the Mirror by Kate Farrell
Sylvie Dawson is a young woman with a dangerous secret: an abusive boyfriend who is stalking her. Forced to hide in her godmother’s country home for the summer,she struggles with isolation and creeping terror. When her godmother tells her the ancient story of Psyche and Eros, Sylvie is inspired to begin a journey of self-discovery. Will she be able to overcome her fears and live the life she was meant to live? http://www.girlinthemirror.info/
What is Kate Farrell doing these days? Visit her at: http://wisdomhasavoice.com
Lennie Dean directs Stacey Marie Kerr in Answer Me Now (10-minute play written by Teresa LeYung-Ryan) as Jonathan Hayden sets up shot
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here again . . . A remarkable dream about my mother and me has become the centerpiece of my 10-minute play Answer Me Now. My heritage is Chinese. When director Lennie Dean asked me to consider changing a few words in my script to fit the actress’s heritage, the “alarms” went off in my head. Oh no, I thought . . . I don’t want my words altered.
“Stacey Marie Kerr’s heritage is Jewish,” Lennie said. “Instead of calling her mother ‘MahMa,’ she would be saying ‘Mameh’ and instead of referring to her father as BahBa, she would be saying ‘Tateh.’ Think it over, tweaking a few words makes the piece personal for the actress on stage.” Lennie added.
I thought it over in the next three seconds of that phone conversation. “Yes! From now on, I would tweak those pronouns and the words ‘China’ and ‘Hong Kong’ to fit the actress whoever she may be.” Asian, Jewish, Italian, Russian, American, Australian, African actress? I can see them and hear them! I’d be honored to change a few words to fit each woman.
I met Stacey Marie Kerr on June 2, 2012. She said she has “adopted” my monologue, she has made the words hers. I couldn’t be more pleased. Thank you, Lennie and Stacey!
Thank you, Linda Loveland Reid, for creating the playwriting contest!
Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s 10-minute monologue Answer Me Now (middle-aged woman asks her dead mother a question) is one of nine winning-plays to be produced by Redwood Writers & 6th Street Playhouse Play Festival in Santa Rosa, CA.
2012 Performance Dates:
- June 29 – 8:00 PM
- June 30 – 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
- July 1 – 2:00 PM
For my Events Page, click here.
I am so looking forward to seeing Stacey on stage and my friends in the audience.
For poster of winning playwrights and contest judges: http://www.6thstreetplayhouse.com/home-old/article/article/167/
For tickets:
http://www.6thstreetplayhouse.
If you prefer talking to real person, call (707) 523-4185 and leave your phone number for a ticket rep. to call you back.
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Teresa LeYung-Ryan helps clients identify themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story in their manuscripts.
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, she says: “Make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily; her novel Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the theme closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship.
Teresa created the annual “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” and cheers for all contestants.
http://writingcoachteresa.com for her Blog, events, and other resources.
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March 29th, 2012 | Author: admin
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to encourage you to pursue more and more resources . . . by visiting my website and this blog on a regular basis to find other people who can help you polish your craft and further build your platform. If you are not in the vicinity of the events I blog about . . . please look at the names of the people who are referenced in my posts, go to their websites by clicking on the links I provide or your keying their names in a search engine. The people I blog about will lead you to their colleagues, and so on. More ways to build your platform? See the exercises in Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days.
An Evening of Poetry
Friday – April 27,2012 – 6:15 to 9:30 pm
Flamingo Hotel – Empire Room, 2777 Fourth St., Santa Rosa, CA 95405 707-523-4745 dinner included
Register: http://redwoodwriters.org/conference/poetrynight/
AL YOUNG-Evening Keynote Speaker
From 2005 through 2008, Al Young served as poet laureate of California. Other honors include NEA, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, and most recently, the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Award. Widely translated, Al Young’s many books include poetry, fiction, essays, anthologies and musical memoirs.
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Petaluma native, Bill Vartnaw is Sonoma County Poet Laureate, 2012-2013.
Bill has a master’s degree in poetics from New College of California. He has been writing seriously for over 35 years. Bill is the author of Concern: for Angels and Suburbs of my Childhood. He is also founder of Taurean Horn Press and has published 14 books. He has spent his life in the service of poetry, often helping his fellow poets behind the scenes of the Petaluma Poetry Walk.
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Juanita Martin is the 1st Poet Laureate, Fairfield, CA 2010-2012. She is an award-winning poet, freelance writer and performance artist. Her poetry appears in journals such as Blue Collar Review, Some Literary Review and Rattlesnake Review.
She’s an active member of Ina Coolbrith Circle, Redwood Writers and Marin Poetry Center.
Juanita at 50, won the honor scroll award in the 2011 National Senior Poet Laureate competition. Juanita is currently working on a book of poetry called The Lighthouse Beckons.
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Redwood Writers NEXT STEP 2012 Conference, Saturday, April 28 , 2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
at Santa Rosa Junior College, Bertolini Student Union, 311 Elliot St., Santa Rosa, CA
Sandy Baker (2012 Conference Chair), Linda Loveland Reid (president of Redwood Branch of California Writers Club), and all the officers and board members deserve big thanks!
Keynote speaker is David Corbett on “Beyond the Book: Writing Opportunities in a Multi-Platform Era.”
“Leap into Tomorrow’s Publishing” Luncheon Panel: Laurie McLean, Mark Coker, Charlotte Cook and Joel Friedlander; Linda McCabe, Moderator
Looks like 20 fabulous presenters will be teaching at this conference that offers 4 tracks: Craft; Genre; Publishing; Marketing.
To register: http://redwoodwriters.org/conference/registration/
Craft Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am David Corbett “The Next Step: Finding the Character Behind the Character”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Geri Spieler “Fact Finding for Fiction Writers: Easy Research Techniques to Pump Up your Novel”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Arlene Miller “Grammar: Don’t Skip this Important Step”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Catherine Brady “Revealing Character through Dialogue”
Genre Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am Christorpher Gortner “Historical Fiction: Stepping Back in Time”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Deborah Grabien “Jumping into Mystery with Character”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Jody Gerrmann “Give Your Young Adult Fiction Zap and Zing!”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Abby Bogomolny “Poetry: The Oldest Literature”
Publishing Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am Verna Dreisbach “Fabulous Fiction”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Pete Masterson “Indie Publishing How-To”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Laurie McLean & Verna Dreisbach “Undercover Agents”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Panel: ebooks “Leap into the Future” Robert Digitale, Scott James, Mark Coker, & Rob Loughran (Kate Farrell, Moderator)
Marketing Track:
9:30 – 10:30 am Frances Caballo “I’m on Facebook! (Now What?)”
11:00 – 12:00 pm Joel Friedlander “Author Blogging 101”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Lee Stein “Getting Found: Using Google (and other tools) to Promote Your Book and Yourself”
3:15 – 4:15 pm Jeane Slone and Suzanne Lang “Local Steps in Promoting Your Book”
Cheering for all writers and readers!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa says: “Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams!”
As editor/story consultant, Coach Teresa helps her clients polish their manuscripts by identifying their themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story.
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW
Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes. Thank you, Teachers & Students!
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March 2nd, 2012 | Author: admin
Coach Teresa, what happened on Saturday Feb. 18, 2012 at San Francisco Writers Conference?
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here . . . this is what happened from my POV. Please tell me and my colleagues your point of view by submitting comments to this blog post. How? Click on the blue title bar of this post, scroll down to get the boxes, fill in boxes and click on “submit comment” button.
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Story Consultant & Writers' Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan and Elisa Sasa Southard of Go-With-Sasa at Lori's Diner on Powell Street in San Francisco to fuel up before Day III of helping SFWC attendees
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authors & independent editors Kate Farrell, Mary E Knippel and Wendy Nelson Tokunaga--photo by author & independent editor Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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historical novelist Liz Newman receives cheers and advice from Story Consultant & Writers-Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Mary E. Knippel answers questions with smiles at SFWC Independent Editors Central
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Shannon Johnson receives cheers and advice from Story Consultant Teresa LeYung-Ryan at SFWC Independent Editors Central--photo by Tara Farquhar
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At lunchtime, we heard announcements of scholarship winners! Congratulations to winners! Cheers to generous benefactors!
Martin Yan said lovely words about vibrant Shirley Fong-Torres, about how she smiled, how she enjoyed meeting her fans. Martin reminded us to smile when we’re autographing books. Smile.
Elizabeth Pomada introduced Laurie Fox (famous literary agent who also writes novels)–more about Laurie in another post (she is another super kind soul). Laurie introduced Lolly Winston. Lolly delivered a heartfelt speech about her encouraging teachers and her perseverance. She is funny, sweet, and serious.
What a memorable hour–from picturing Shirley’s smile through Martin’s tribute; hearing Elizabeth speak fondly of Laurie; Laurie speaking fondly of Lolly; Lolly expressing her appreciation for relationships and the craft. So beautiful.
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Marty Castleberg & Linda Lee & Richard Santos inspire writers at SFWC
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presenters-authors-teachers Tanya Egan Gibson & Holly Payne meet up at SFWC and shine!
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Danine Manette shine at SFWC--photo by Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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author / presenter / SFWC Marketing Director Barbara Santos with presenter / SFWC Volunteer Director / cyberspace genius Linda Lee
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Lynn Henriksen and Shulamit Sofia at SFWC (look who are sitting in back row! Sheldon Siegel, Elisa Sasa Southard and Kate Farrell!)--photo by Writers' Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Historical novelist Daniel Roddick receives Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan's editing advice on first 2 pages of his manuscript
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Lisa Marie Pontier receives encouragement on her story from Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Nina Amir gives advice to author at SFWC--photo by Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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memoirist and novelist Ann Tashi Slater with independent editors Mary E. Knippel and Gabrielle Harbowy--photo by Story Consultant Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Agent Gordon Warnock answers questions from author while Mark Hopkins rep and Elizabeth Pomada go over details for autograph party--photo by Coach Teresa
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Andrew Rose chats with Kimberly Edwards & Sheila McDonald--photo by Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Margie Yee Webb & Michael Larsen & Harvey Pawl & Kimberly Edwards & Elisa Sasa Southard inspire writers--photo by Writers' Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Teresa LeYung-Ryan & Martha Alderson & Elisa Sasa Southard & Lynn Henriksen & Nina Amir all love to encourage writers at SFWC
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Women's National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter members-authors-presenters (back row: Margie Yee Webb, Lynn Henriksen, Tanya Egan Gibson, Verna Dreisbach; center Mary E. Knippel, Nina Amir, Apala Egan, Jane Omerod; front row: Elizabeth Pomada behind Barbara Santos, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Linda Lee, Elisa "Sasa" Southard, Joan Gelfand) at SFWC --photo by Don Hudson who says Western Women Save the World
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authors Joan Gelfand & Teresa LeYung-Ryan & Cara Black having fun at SFWC autograph party--photo by Adam Hertz
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Teresa LeYung-Ryan & Elisa Sasa Southard & Shari Dunn & Margie Yee Webb at Thai dinner on Powell Street in SF after inspiring registrants at SFWC Day III
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Sincerely
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams!”
to preview the exercises for Day 1 & Day 2, go to Amazon books
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW
As editor/story consultant, Coach Teresa helps her clients polish their manuscripts by identifying their themes, universal archetypes, front-story and back-story. http://writingcoachteresa.com
Her novel Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes. Thank you, Teachers & Students!
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January 9th, 2012 | Author: admin
Coach Teresa here to tell you about how, once again, writers brighten my day.
I had redesigned one of my signature presentations for California Writers Club-Redwood Branch and created a new template for Writing Career Make-Over with Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan.
I so wanted to help every writer in the audience see how simple building one’s platform could be. To get familiar with my audience, I read every word of Redwood Writers’ January 2012 newsletter and looked at the names of the entire membership roster on the branch’s website. The exciting programs created by the members are synonymous with Redwood Writers. I spent weeks preparing for my presentation.
But I goofed! Even though my definition of platform was on the template, I didn’t say it! And, because I didn’t say: “A platform is making your name stand for something—to attract targeted consumers who are likely to buy what you have to sell,” my talk was missing structure.
Whether you write fiction, narrative nonfiction or prescriptive nonfiction (how to books) or poetry or plays or anthologies. . . whether you want to land an agent or acquisition editor at a publishing house . . . whether you want to be your own publisher . . . you’re going to need a platform.
Let’s dissect the definition of a platform. “Making your name stand for something—to attract targeted consumers who are likely to buy what you have to sell.” (page 1 of my workbook Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days)
The last part “what you have to sell” — what you’re selling is your literary works or services.
The middle part “to attract targeted consumers” — the targeted consumers are the folks who read and buy the kind of material you write about.
The first part “Making your name stand for something” — that was the heart of my presentation–to help each writer identify the themes/subject matters/issues that he/she writes about. For my template, I had found on Google Images the perfect hard hat 
to illustrate my point that the hardest job in platform-building is asking yourself and answering these questions: What is it that I write about? What are my themes/subject matters/issues? What will readers gain from reading my work?
So, there I was, asking 7 delightful authors (Marcia Naomi Berger, Deborah Taylor-French, Amanda McTigue, Robbi Sommers Bryant, Paul Greenberg, Ana Manwaring, Heidi Roth) to come up to the stage to speak their full names. I guided them on how to identify: her/his picture of success; the themes/subject matters/issues that he/she writes about; his/her motivators & modus operandi; her/his fans and where to find them.
Making one’s name synonymous with the themes/subject matters/issues one writes about.
If I had prepared everyone with the “why” for doing the exercises, then more writers in the audience would have gained their “aha moments” too.
When I coach my clients . . .prescriptive nonfiction (how to books) authors usually answer those questions with ease. It’s not so easy for fiction and narrative nonfiction authors. I’d say: “Instead of telling me the plotline or the character sketch, think about the issues and the themes. What does your protagonist have to deal with? What will your protagonist learn in story world? What your main character learns, your readers will also learn!” The answers will help you form your mission statement.
So, Coach Teresa, define a writer’s platform! “Making your name stand for something—to attract targeted consumers who are likely to buy what you have to sell.”
Understanding what a platform is gives you a fresh look at your writing career.
And you’ll be ready to have more fun doing the exercises in my workbook. Day I exercises: “Who am I?” and “What I Have in Common with Super Famous People” (take a sneak peek at Amazon’s “look inside” of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days
I wish to thank these folks again:
Linda C. McCabe for inviting me to present
The entire Redwood Writers Board
Everyone in the audience yesterday
Kate Farrell for helping me format my template on her MAC and being a loving friend
Everyone who gave me their comments on the evaluation sheet.
Everyone who told me about their themes before and after the presentation.
Everyone who bought Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days and will start Day I exercises: “Who am I?” and “What I Have in Common with Super Famous People”
Everyone who bought Love Made of Heart (my novel to inspire adult children of mentally ill parents to speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their families)
Kate Farrell made my day by showing me Lindsay Pasdera Marquez’s email to Redwood Writers’ listserver.
Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:57 AM
Re: [RWmembers] glad to have found RWC
I joined RWC a few months back, and was able to attend my first meeting yesterday. Wow! I feel very fortunate to have access to such a vibrant community of passionate writers in my own backyard.
I appreciated Teresa LeYung-Ryan’s perspective and am thrilled to have a written mission statement (Dream) for my work. Mine is: to dramatically increase the percentage of Americans who are aware that humans have a rich history of cooperation, egalitarianism, and non-violence. Writing that statement helped me see the coherence between my two current writing projects: one, a historical fiction set in sixth century Scotland among a matrilineal tribal people, and two, my blog (www.ancientabundance.blogspot.com) on the true nature of pre-agricultural humanity. I have chosen a pen name for both the novel and the blog.
I look forward to taking advantage of all the wonderful growth opportunities that RWC has to offer and to getting to know each of you over time.
Happy New Year!
Lindsay Pasdera Marquez
Here’s my response:
Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:57 AM
Good Day Fabulous Redwood Writers!
Thank you for your participation yesterday for my “Writing Career Make-Over with Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan” presentation.
Thank you for your comments on the evaluation sheets.
Lindsay, I am jumping for joy seeing your mission statement; it speaks with clarity. Be sure to add your mission statement to your signature block in emails (even emails to personal friends). Why? You want all your fans to see what you are passionate about. Fans talk about passionate people.
I will write a follow-up to yesterday’s session and submit it to Robin Moore and/or Lynn Millar for those who could not make it yesterday.
“Reach out, not stress out, when building your writer’s platform!”
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (in print edition and E-book)
More rewards:
I’m going to submit my 10-minute play to 2012 Redwood Writers 2nd Playwriting Contest. Thank you, Linda Loveland Reid, for creating the contest!
Today, after Kate Farrell fed me breakfast and got me to Golden Gate Transit Mall in plenty of time (Thank you, Kate!), I met up with another dear friend–author Lynn Scott. I told Lynn about my goof-up yesterday; she laughed at me, lovingly. Thank you, Lynn! “Focus on the positive,” reminded Lynn. Once again, writers brighten my day. I am a happy and thankful coach/author/friend.
To participate in this blog post (article), submit a comment by: clicking on the blue title bar of this post, scrolling down to get the boxes, filling in the boxes and click on “submit comment” button — so that thousands of my fans will see your name, URL (your website/blog address if you have one), and what themes/subject matters/issues you write about.
I’m cheering for you!
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October 27th, 2011 | Author: admin
Coach Teresa here… I see in the Book Passage catalog that Lindsay Whiting, Adair Lara, and Amy Rennert will be teaching in November & December 2011 at the store in Corte Madera, CA!
…which made me think about other colleagues . . . the list would go on and on, for days 
This is just one post of a series.
I’ll be away for 9 days; please bookmark this blog http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/ and visit soon. Many thanks!
These authors, teachers, editors, literary agent, and I (Lindsay Whiting, Marie Elena Gaspari Mary E. Knippel, Adair Lara, Linda Joy Myers, Lynn Henriksen, Kate Farrell, Luisa Adams, Lynn Scott, Elisa “Sasa” Southard, Linda Lee, Vicki Weiland, Margie Yee Webb, Yolande Barial, Amy Rennert, Teresa LeYung-Ryan) are passionate about these themes: helping self and helping others through art/writing; identifying publishing routes; manifesting dreams; mothers/daughters; promoting reading
Lindsay Whiting – Living into Art: Journeys Through Collage
Sat., November 12, 2011, 1:00-5:00 pm • $60 (plus $5 materials fee due to instructor)
Living Into Art: Journeys Through Collage
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 927-0960
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Marie Elena Gaspari http://riverofdreamswriting.weebly.com/
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Mary E. Knippel http://yourwritingmentor.com/tag/collage/
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Class: Adair Lara – Writing the Memoir
Sat., November 19, 2011, 10:00 am–4:00 pm $105
Adair Lara shows how to get your memoir started—or finished. You will learn all the vital elements: the arc, reflective voice, scene vs. narrative, fact vs. truth, and writing about family members. She also explains what it takes to get published. There will be in-class exercises and assignments. Writers of fiction and essays are welcome too. A former San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Lara is the author of 12 books, including Naked, Drunk and Writing, her popular new guide to essay and memoir.
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 927-0960
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Linda Joy Myers http://www.namw.org/
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Lynn Henriksen http://telltalesouls.com/blog/
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Kate Farrell http://wisdomhasavoice.com/
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Luisa Adams http://www.rp-author.com/Adams/
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Lynn Scott http://lynnscottbooks.com/
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Elisa “Sasa” Southard http://elisaonassignment.com/
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Teresa LeYung-Ryan http://writingcoachteresa.com
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Linda Lee http://askmepc.com/
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Vicki Weiland http://vickiweiland.wordpress.com/
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Margie Yee Webb http://www.catmulan.com/
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Yolande Barial http://just-a-mom.us/
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Amy Rennert – Secrets of Getting Published
Two Thursdays: Dec. 1 & 8, 2011 • 6:30-9:00 pm
Price: $130.00
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 927-0960
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Sincerely,
Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “Reach out, not stress out, when pursuing your dreams!”
Writing Career Coach/Manuscript Consultant
author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (print edition & eBook edition)
Author of Love Made of Heart (inspires adult children of mentally ill parents to speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their families)
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