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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
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February 2nd, 2013 | Author: admin
Who will be teaching and entertaining at the San Francisco Writers Conference February 14-17, 2013?
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here . . . honored to be invited to present at the San Francisco Writers Conference again. I will get to work with talented colleagues and friends, ten years in a row!
Friday Feb. 15, 2013 9:00-9:45am
“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 Advisory Board Member Elisa “Sasa” Southard, Break Through the Noise: 9 Tools to Propel Your Marketing Message (free balloons in this interactive session)
Sunday Feb. 17, 2013 10:00-10:45am
“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 Mary E. Knippel, The Secret Artist: Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine!
Also, I will be one of the independent editors, giving one-on-one consultation, on:
Friday 11:00am — 11:50am; Friday 2:00pm – 3:30 or 3:40pm
Saturday 11:00am — 11:50am
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The 10th Anniversary SFWC February 14-17 (Thursday through Sunday), 2013 !
Here is SFWC’s growing list of authors, agents, editors, publishing professionals and other presenters who will be speaking at the 2013 San Francisco Writers Conference. To find out more about each of them, click on the underlined name.
KEYNOTES:
Bella Andre, author of Let Me Be The One
Guy Kawasaki, author and co-founder of Alltop.com & founder of Garage Technology Ventures
Anne Perry, historical novelist and author of Blind Justice
R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series
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PRESENTERS:
Martha Alderson, Plot consultant and author of The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories
Marilyn R. Atlas, Producer and personal manager in Hollywood
Bob Barner, children’s author/illustrator Dem Bones
Cara Black, author of Murder in Passy
Zoe FitzGerald Carter, author of Imperfect Endings: A Daughter’s Story of Love, Loss and Letting Go
Claire Cavanaugh, author/editor
Stephanie Chandler, author, online marketing and social networking guru
Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, and The Wednesday Sisters
Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords
David Corbett, author of Do They know I’m Running?
Kim Culbertson, author The Liberation of Max McTrue
Deborah Davis, author of Not like You
Robert Dugoni, author of Wrongful Death and Murder One
Camille T. Dungy, author and professor at San Francisco State University
Brian Felsen, president of BookBaby / CD Baby / HostBaby
Lee Foster, author, award winning travel writer/photographer
Amy Franklin-Willis, author of The Lost Saints of Tennessee
Joel Friedlander, The Marin Bookworks
Diane Gedyman, Owner/Editor at The Publisher’s Desk
Joan Gelfand, author, blogger and poet
Tanya Egan Gibson, Author/Freelance Editor
Constance Hale, author, journalist and blogger
Brad Henderson, author and UC Davis Professor in Writing
Vicky Hudson, Freelance Writer
Corrine Jackson, author of If I Lie and Touched
Andy Jones, Professor, author, social media consultant
Evan Karp, creator of Litseen.com and Quiet Lightning
Carla King, Adventure travel author and Founder of Self-Publishing Boot Camp
Bharti Kirchner, author and teacher
Mary E. Knippel, author of The Secret Artist – Give Yourself Permission to Let Your Creativity Shine! Founder of Your-Writing-Mentor
John Korty, Film Director
C.S. Lakin, author, independent editor
Linda Lee, Founder of Askmepc-webdesign & Smart Women Stupid Computers
Karen Leland, best-selling author, speaker and consultant – Sterling Marketing Group
Donna Levin, author/writing teacher
Teresa LeYung-Ryan, manuscript consultant; coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days; author of Love Made of Heart
Mary Mackey, author of Sugar Zone
Ron Martinez, Founder, Aerbook Maker Cloud Publishing
Meredith Maran, journalist, essayist, author of A Theory of Small Earthquakes
Dalya Massachi, Founder, Writing for Community Success
John McAlester, Founder, PigeonLab publishing platform
Joanne McCall, media public relations
Linda Joy Myers, author & President of National Association of Memoir Writers
Greg Nelson, author of Living Your Best Life: A 30 day Journey of Personal Growth
Kathryn Otoshi, author/illustrator of What Emily Saw
Robin Perini, author of Cowboy in the Crossfire
Dan Poynter, Para Publishing – Self-Publishing Guru
Peg Alford Pursell, poet and short story author
Lisa Marie Rice, author of Heart of Danger
Barbara Santos, author of Maui Onion Cookbook and Practice Aloha
Kemble Scott, author of The Sower and So.Ma
Naheed Senzai, author of Shooting Kabul
Rusty Shelton, President and CEO of Shelton Interactive
Sheldon Siegel, author of The Terrorist Next Door
Kevin Smokler, author of Bookmark Now
Elisa “Sasa” Southard, traveler writer; certified tour director; author of Break Through the Noise:9 Too ls to Propel Your Marketing Message; conference advisory board member
Ransom Stephens, author of The God Patent
Ellen Sussman, author of French Lessons
Wendy Tokunaga, author of Midori by Moonlight
K.M. Walton, author of Cracked
Penny Warner, author of How to Host a Killer Party
Chef Martin Yan, chef, author, TV personality
Victoria Zackheim, author of Exit Laughing, How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death
Anne Zimmerman, author of An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher
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EDITORS:
Elfrieda Abbe, Publisher, The Writer magazine at Madavor Publishing.
Chuck Adams, Executive Editor at Algonquin Books
Yanina Gotulsky, Publish at Numina Press
Lee Foster, at Foster Travel Publishing
Nancy Hancock, editor at HarperOne
Gabrielle Harbowy, Managing Editor at Dragon Moon Press
Jan Johnson, RedWheel/Weiser/Conari/Turning Stone
Brenda Knight, Associate Publisher at Cleis Press, Berkeley CA
Susanne Lakin, Editor
Ross E. Lockhart, Editor at Night Shade Books
Melissa Manlove, Editor at Chronicle Books
Julian Pavia, Editor at Crown Trade/Broadway
Annette Pollert, Editor at Simon-Pulse a division of Simon and Schuster
Chuck Sambuchino, Editor at Writers Digest Books and edits Guide To Literary Agents, author of Create Your Writer Platform
Jill Schwartzman, Executive Editor at Dutton, part of the Penquin Group
Ralph Scott, Executive Editor at Credit The Edit
Charles Spicer, Executive Editor at St. Martins Press
Lauren Spiegel, Editor at Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Laura Tisdale, editor at Reagan Arthur Books at Little Brown
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AGENTS:
Peter Beren, literary agent and publishing consultant (CA)
Andrea Brown, President – Anrdea Brown Literary Agency (CA)
Kimberley Cameron, President of Kimberley Cameron & Associates (CA)
Verna Dreisbach, Dreisbach Literary Management (CA)
Mollie Glick, Foundry Literary and Media (NY)
Mandy Hubbard, agent at D4EO Literary (CT)
Liz Kracht, agent at Kimberely Cameron and Associates (CA)
Michael Larsen, Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents (SF)
Taylor Martindale, Full Circle Literary (CA)
Jill Marsal, Marsal-Lyon Literary (CA)
Laurie McLean, Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents (SF)
Michael Neff, AEI Films and Books
Lara Perkins, Associate Agent, Digital Manager, Andrea Brown Literary Agency (CA)
Elizabeth Pomada, Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents (SF)
Jody Rein, President of Jody Rein Books, Inc (CO)
Rayhane Sanders, Literary Manager at WSK Management, LLC (NY)
Katharine Sands, Sarah Jane Freymann Agency (NYC)
Ken Sherman, Ken Sherman and Associates
Nephele Tempest, The Knight Agency (Atlanta/CA)
Becky Vinter, agent at FinePrint Literary Management (NY)
Gordon Warnock, Andrea Hurst & Associates (CA)
Pamela van Hylckama Vlieg, Larsen/Pomada Agency (CA)
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Goosebumps author R.L. Stine offers a free talk for his young fans
on February 16th at the 2013 San Francisco Writers Conference
While he is in town as a keynoter for the 2013 San Francisco Writers Conference, the shadowy R.L. Stine will offer a frightfully delightful session for his young fans. We promise there is nothing to fear from the master of horror. It all begins promptly at 10 a.m. on February 16th at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. His talk is free, but rules must be followed! (See below.)
Mr. Stine is best known as the author of the popular Goosebumps series of books for young readers. He has sold over 350 million books, making him one of the best-selling children’s authors in history. In fact, he was named the #1 best-selling author in America by USA Today for three straight years outselling John Grisham, Stephen King and Tom Clancy.
The FREE session for students during the SFWC is made possible by the San Francisco Writers Conference which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the InterContinental Mark Hopkins and the many companies and individuals who are sponsors of the 2013 San Francisco Writers Conference.
RULES for the R.L. STINE session during the 2013 San Francisco Writers Conference:
The event starts PROMPTLY at 10 a.m. at the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Saturday, February 16th, 2013. The session is open to students in 3rd to 8th grade and is limited to the first 200 confirmed RSVPs.
You MUST RSVP following these rules or something bad may happen (perhaps you won’t get in!) Go to www.SFWriters.org. Click on ‘Register Here for R.L. Stine’ option on the right side of the homepage. Fill out the form. List all the students who will be attending in the box provided. Submit the form. A thank you page will appear. We suggest you bring a copy of the thank you page with you.
Mandatory: If you are bringing a group, there must be 1 adult per 10 children.
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Who else will be helping writers at the 2013 San Francisco Writers Conference?
Published authors and publishing experts who generously volunteer their time! Click here to see who they are!
Members from Women’s National Book Association!
Members from California Writers Club!
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
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: “Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
Teresa has built her own platform happily. Her first novel Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes; available at public libraries; recommended by the CA School Library Association and the CA Reading Association; and archived at the San Francisco History Center. Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the themes closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship; Chinese-American immigrant experience; helping adult-children (of mentally-ill parents) speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their loved ones.
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- http://WritingCoachTeresa.com Click on “Coach Teresa’s Blog”
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January 14th, 2013 | Author: admin
Give yourself a New Year gift. Give a friend a New Year gift.
Even if you are employed, please take a look at the table of contents of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers 2013 edition, published by Ten Speed Press.
This miraculous book is updated every year by Mr. Richard N. Bolles (I call him the Yoda for job seekers)
Coach Teresa says: “What Color Is Your Parachute? is for Writers and Artists”
Go to http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/ for resources and be inspired by Mr. Richard N. Bolles’s warm and engaging writing style.
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‘You’re Hired!’ television show episode #45: Host Steve Piazzale, Ph.D. interviews Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007 edition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxrhyo2MlWo&feature=related
Mr. Richard Nelson Bolles loves to give us hope.
Richard Nelson Bolles (What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012 edition) describes career as being the expression of “an artist at work” and reflects on the medium he most enjoys working with in this information conversation with Jenni Proctor of Clarity Career Management http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NruYX0V9LTY
Mr. Richard Nelson Bolles loves to help us express who we are.
Other Books by Richard N. Bolles
The Job-Hunter’s Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work, Even When “There Are No Jobs” (2009)
How to Find Your Mission in Life (2005)
The Three Boxes of Life, and How to Get Out of Them: An Introduction to Life/Work Planning (1981)
Books by Richard Bolles with Co-authors
The Career Counselor’s Handbook (2007, Second edition)
(Howard Figler is co-author)
What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens (2010)
(Carol Christen, with Jean M. Blomquist are co-authors)
What Color Is Your Parachute? For Retirement (2010)
(John E. Nelson is co-author)
Job-Hunting Online (2011)
(Mark Emery Bolles is co-author)
Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped (2001, Second edition)
(Dale S. Brown is co-author)
Where Do I Go from Here with My Life? A systematic and practical workbook for counselors, instructors, and job club leaders. (1974; essentially out of print)
(The late John C. Crystal is co-author)
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Coach Teresa here . . . Recently I found a treasure – a letter to me from Mr. Richard Nelson Bolles dated April 1, 1994! That letter (along with current emails from the Yoda for job seekers) has given me new inspiration in my own work. Thank you, Mr. Bolles!
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I’ll be blogging about Rebecca Martin, Founder/CEO of Dear Jane Inc. soon !
Dear Jane Inc.’s mission statement: dear jane… is a comprehensive career advisement company dedicated to helping individuals and corporations meet their personal and financial goals in order to improve the overall quality of the global workforce.
By training, coaching and educating individual workers, as well as companies, dear jane… is committed to improving human welfare, values and dignity.
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.” http://writingcoachteresa.com
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.”
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.
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December 7th, 2012 | Author: admin
October 25, 2012 through December 6, 2012
Platform-Building and Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “My deep gratitude to colleagues who have endorsed me on LinkedIn in October, November, December 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! Anyone who reads this post can submit a comment – please brag about your own work / specialties; let my fans know what you are doing in the writing / publishing world.”
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 these colleagues for endorsing my services relating to: blogging; book publishing; editing; writer’s platform-building; Search Engine Optimization “SEO” for websites/blogs; creative-writing coaching; social media
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Suzanne Corson – email marketing manager; newsletter project manager; freelance editor; writer; business owner; bookseller; independent bookstores 
Nancy Suib- 30+ years in publishing industry. Book retail experience. In-house publishing sales and marketing. Owner of sales and marketing independent rep organization selling to 13 western states
Carole Bumpus – author of A Cup of Redemption- Carole has been researching family life in both France and Italy, regarding women who have suffered the ‘collateral damages’ of war.
Patricia Chan-Miller- Organized coordinator; Expert negotiator; Skilled compiling information/data into reports and spreadsheets
Steve (Fredericks) Liddick – book publishing; book promoting; California Writers Club; Top Cat Publications; retired from radio business
Linda C. McCabe – author of Quest of the Warrior Maiden- Book One in the Bradamante and Ruggiero series
Thonie Hevron - author of By Force Or Fear “Giving writers–and readers–an authentic cop experience.”
Kim McMillon- interviews artists, writers, those interested in the healing arts and theater arts. Playwright; teacher; member of PEN Oakland; radio show host & promoter of San Joaquin and Northern California events.
Kathryn (Kay) Mehl Miller, Ph.D. - interested in living as an aging woman and writing about the subject; author of Living with the Stranger in Me: An Exploration of Aging
Marcia Naomi Berger- The Marriage Maven; creator of The Marriage Meeting Starter Kit. “I am an experienced psychotherapist who is well-trained in both cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic approaches. I love drawing on my knowledge of many treatment approaches so that I can customize my work for each client and situation. My mission is to help people get the marriage they’ve always wanted; a loving one that fosters the growth and vitality of both partners, spiritually, emotionally, and physically.”
Julaina Kleist-Corwin- award-winning writer, school teacher, and field supervisor
Linda Joy Myers – writing teacher; founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers; author of multiple books, including The Power of Memoir
Carol Sheldon – award-winning author of Mother Lode, playwright, director, actress, poet, educator
Elaine Webster - author of Heartfelt: A Caregivers Guide to Cardiomyopathy and Mitral Valve Surgery; Jesse’s Tale: Overcoming Fear Aggression and Separation Anxiety in an Adopted Greyhound president of California Writers Club–Redwood Branch
Barbara Santos – Created, developed and publicized signature events on Maui and in California both non-profit and for profit. Transitioned small grass-roots events into multi-million dollar budgeted events; marketing director for San Francisco Writers Conference; author of Practice Aloha Book: Secrets to Living Life Hawaiian Style;
Tory Hartmann – Tory is a writer who has sold articles to San Francisco Chronicle, San Mateo Times, Parenting on the Peninsula, as well as many other publications; Editor at Sand Hill Review Press
Martha Alderson – The Plot Whisperer is an international plot consultant for writers. Her clients include best-selling authors, screenwriters, writing teachers and fiction editors. As the author of The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master, and the workbook, and Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple, she created a unique line of plot tools for writers, including the Scene Tracker Kit, and the Plot Planner DVDs
Susan Novak- botanist; gardener; plant identifying
Diane Warner- memoirist; doll maker; artist; retired clown
Sandy Baker – author of Mrs. Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang; Zack’s Zany Zucchiniland; The Tehran Triangle; a master gardener
- Mona Mechling – Writer; creator of The Fridge Magnet Chronicles(collection of short stories)
Barbara Toboni – writer; bookkeeper. Barbara writes short stories, poetry, memoir, and picture books. Her poetry and essays have been published in literary journals and newspapers including Alura Poetry and the Napa Valley Register. Her short stories have been published in anthologies, including Wisdom Has a Voice, Vintage Voices, and Cup of Comfort. Undertow, a chapbook of poetry, was published in 2011
Here are some organizations that connect these colleagues to me:
San Francisco Writers Conference
California Writers Club – San Francisco Peninsula Branch
California Writers Club – Santa Rosa Branch aka Redwood Writers
California Writers Club – Berkeley Branch
California Writers Club – Marin Branch
California Writers Club – Sacramento Branch
California Writers Club – South Bay Branch
For all branches of California Writers Club http://calwriters.org
National Association of Memoir Writers
Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter
For all chapters of Women’s National Book Association http://www.wnba-books.org
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
Teresa LeYung-Ryan at LinkedIn
author of Love Made of Heart – the mother/daughter love story
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November 14th, 2012 | Author: admin
(Clicking on underscored text in this post will open a new window to get to referenced site.)
Meet Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Book Marketing Coach!
1. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background in the industry?
My name is Teresa LeYung-Ryan and my clients call me Writing-and-Platform-Building Coach Teresa. I wish to thank Christy Pinheiro-Silva of www.StepByStepSelfPublishing.net for this interview, and, I encourage everyone to look for the core messages in my responses—which are: Reach out, not stress out, to material your dreams; and, wear your two hats as a writer and be happy (whether you’re writing fiction, narrative nonfiction, or prescription nonfiction also known as “how to” books/articles).
This is what happened to me, over ten years ago, and the choices I’ve made.
I had a dream—a dream of connecting with readers the way Maxine Hong Kingston touched me with her memoir The Woman Warrior. My writer’s journey started with learning the components of a story in a ten-week course Writing Children’s Literature at the community center and forming a critique group with three classmates after the course ended.
Fast forward. After seven years of writing and rewriting, showing up at critique meetings twice a month, I received a gift from a friend—a brochure for the Jack London Writers’ Conference with an entry form for their writing contest. Two months later, at the conference, I met members from California Writers’ Club and I received “Second Prize” in the Novel Category in the writing contest. I thought that by being a winner in a contest, surely I would attract mentors and be “discovered” by an agent the following week. (Are you laughing?)
Fast forward. After sending query letters and the first two chapters of my novel to dozens of agents over a year, and, receiving “rejection letters” and getting very depressed, I took a friend’s advice and registered for a workshop “How to Get Published.” Also, I got together with two other contest-winners (Luisa Adams and Martha Alderson) and we pledged to help each other on our writers’ journeys.
I took a six-week leave of absence from my job to perform the last big rewrite of my manuscript. (Note: Surround yourself with people who really support your dreams. My husband and my friends were cheering for me.)
Fast forward. My first novel Love Made of Heart (a mother-daughter love story) is used in college composition classes; available at public libraries; recommended by the CA School Library Association and the CA Reading Association; and archived at the San Francisco History Center. October 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of Love Made of Heart. The book is still in print, and, I continue to meet new fans.
For the past nine years, through my coaching and my workbook Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days, I have been helping writers reach out, not stress out, to attract agents, editors, publishers, readers, and media attention.
2. What is your opinion on self-publishing vs. traditional publishing and represented by an agent?
The advantage of identifying the right agent who will pitch your intellectual property to the right publishers— agents have their specialties and their relationships with acquisition editors at publishing houses; established publishers have relationships with book distributors.
Note: An agent gets 15% of what the author receives from the publisher (similar to a finder’s fee). Agents are not publicists, marketing managers or promoters. The publisher, not the agent, offers you the contract (to buy the rights to publish your book).
Note: Hire a literary attorney to interpret and negotiate the contract for you if your agent doesn’t have access to legal counsel. Know what rights you are selling to the publisher.
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The advantage of being your own publisher—you have full control regarding:
- rights to publish and re-print
- how to promote your book, when, and to whom
- publication date and publication format
- book layout, cover design, jacket copy
- cover price; discounts to booksellers
- budget and profits
Consider Your and Other People’s Timetables:
It might take years to find your agent; it might take years before your agent finds the publisher. By the way, my super-agent Stacey Glick tells me that only 2% of her clients would receive contracts from publishers. When Stacey negotiated the deal with acquisition editor John Scognamiglio at Kensington Publishing Corp. New York (a publisher who releases 500+ new titles each year) for my mother-daughter novel Love Made of Heart, my book title got onto the “conveyor belt” (it would take 18 months from when I sign the contract to when the book would show up in bookstores).
Note: A publisher could “fast track” a new title, releasing the book within months or even weeks. An example of releasing a book within weeks would be when a super-famous person dies and big publishers would forego some of the stops in the conveyor belt process.
How much attention are you going to get and give?
The bigger the publisher, the more new titles they release each year, the less attention each author gets. Their best-selling authors, celebrity-authors, and new authors to whom they have given huge advances would get the most attention of course.
A decade ago when John Scognamiglio told me “You have six weeks to get on the radar” I thought I knew what that meant. You see, I was one of the lucky authors. Kensington had bought “front of the store” shelf space at chain-stores for Love Made of Heart. Chain-stores would rotate inventory every six weeks. If a book sells during those six weeks, then the store would order more copies through their distributor. Independent sales representatives (especially Nancy Suib and Anne Shulenberger) introduced Love Made of Heart to their accounts (independent booksellers). “Indies” also had to rotate their inventory every few weeks. What does this mean? Unsold books are returned to the distributors (warehouses). Publishers have to pay taxes on inventory—it is a costly business—selling printed books.
To stay on that “radar” meant making one’s name and the subject matter/issues/themes in one’s book visible in media attention over those precious six weeks. Which also meant having lined up interviews—in print, radio, television. You’re probably saying . . . Wouldn’t the publisher handle all that? Yes, if you are one of their best-selling authors, a celebrity, or a new author who has been given a huge advance.
Note: Cyberspace magic provides opportunities galore for authors to broadcast ourselves (build our platforms and fanbases). What is a platform? The definition is on page 1 from my workbook Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: “Making your name stand for something—to attract targeted consumers—who are likely to buy what you have to sell.”
3. What do you feel is the most important thing that authors can do to promote their books?
The simple yet powerful tool is: Making your name synonymous with the themes/subject matter/issues in your literary works.
In my interview on CBS Channel 5, I talked about: “What I care about … leads to my writing about those themes/subject matters/issues. What I write about … attracts my fans because they also care about what I care about. Help your fans find you.”
Introduce yourself with your full name. Then use these three words: “I care about . . . ”
Example: (as a writer of fiction, narrative nonfiction, including memoirs )
I am Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart (a mother-daughter love story). I care about helping adult-children (of mentally-ill parents) speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their loved ones.
Example: (as a writer of prescriptive nonfiction a.k.a. “how to” )
I am Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW. I care about helping writers thrive in today’s publishing arena.
I call these self-introductions my platform-statement.
Where to “show” your platform-statement?
- Your email signature-block!
- Your letterhead!
- Your website and blog slogan/tagline/description!
- Your bio!
- Your business cards!
- The caption for your photographs!
- Headline for press releases!
- Social media pages!
- And, let’s hear it on your voicemail!
Even when I’m emailing my loved ones (my biggest fans), I show them my platform-statement in my signature block. Help your fans brag about you with ease.
4. What are your feelings on Social Media? (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc)
I thank creators and users of social media. How else could our fans from faraway places find us? Be consistent. Update your bio in all these forums to reflect your current platform-statement. A picture speaks a thousand words; be sure to rename photo-files (show your full name and book title, and even keywords from your platform-statement)
5. Do you feel that book marketing for fiction is different than book marketing for non-fiction?
No difference in today’s markets.
How do I choose books as a consumer?
As Teresa-the-consumer, I pay attention when:
- friends recommend a book
- I read about or hear or meet the author and I appreciate what the author has to say
- I need information on a particular subject, so I use a search engine (like Google.com) to find those books or I ask my favorite booksellers and librarians.
How would I help these consumers find me if I am an author?
Please see the answers to Question # 3—“What do you feel is the most important thing that authors can do to promote their books?”
6. What are some of the biggest mistakes that authors make when trying to promote their books?
- One big mistake is misdirecting your energy pitching to book reviewers or radio or television producers who are not interested in the subject matter /issues/ themes that you are promoting. Do your homework; seek advice from mentors, colleagues, and yours truly Coach Teresa; use The Book Reviewer Yellow Pages; listen and watch shows you’d like to be invited to, and, please study their format
- Another common mistake is what my colleague Elisa Sasa Southard calls “killing a marketing moment.” Her book Break Through the Noise shows you the 9 tools to propel your marketing message.
- The third common mistake is tiring yourself out when promoting at events where there is traveling, schlepping, and setting up involved. I have lots of fun with colleagues/co-presenters at writers’ conferences, book festivals, and community events. Recently I shared a booth with Margie Yee Webb and Rita Lakin at the Sonoma County Book Festival. Every year I join forces with co-presenters Sasa Southard and Mary E. Knippel at the San Francisco Writers Conference. On December 15, 2012 I’ll be sharing a table with Margie Yee Webb (she’s the author of the gift-book Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings) at a Local Authors event. Please check my events page.
7. Do you have any other useful advice for beginning authors?
- Get yourself a calendar (month at a glance) with big squares to write in, and, schedule time to work on your craft and your platform.
- Get to know members in writers’ organizations (my favorite ones are California Writers Club and Women’s National Book Association)
- Please read my blog post: Wear Two Hats as a Writer and Be Happy
8. How can authors contact you if they have any questions?
I encourage you to ask me question by posting a comment on any of my blog posts. That way, my fans will see your name and questions (so, promote yourself). To submit a comment: click on the headline/blue title bar of the post, scroll down to the end of the post, fill in the boxes, and press the [submit comment] button.
Here’s a blog post you might like to submit a comment/question: Who Really Is the Most Qualified Person to Build the Author’s Platform and Fanbase?
My email address: WritingCoachTeresag at gmail.com
You will find links to the organizations referenced in this interview on my “Writers’ Resources” page at http://writingcoachteresa.com
In closing, I wish to reiterate my thanks to Christy Pinheiro and to say “I cheer for all writers!”
Reach out, not stress out!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
http://writingcoachTeresa.com
Christy Pinheiro-Silva of www.StepByStepSelfPublishing.net says:
“Thanks, Teresa, for a great interview!!!”
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November 5th, 2012 | Author: admin
Dear Writers,
When someone whom I respect asks me to share my expertise (even on short notice), and, I can adjust my schedule, I say “Yes!”
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa
Author & Writers’ Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
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Writers’ Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan was honored to respond to Christy Pinheiro’s interview invitation
The book reviewer website and our monthly newsletter need to interview a writing/publishing industry pro. This is last-minute–the person I planned to interview for this month had some personal issues and had to drop out. Any chance you’d be interested? The interview would go out to our newsletter subscribers. I’d need you to answer questions, and I’d need it back by the 28th, so around 48 hours. Let me know if you are interested.
I’ll focus on you all day tomorrow Saturday.
Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Great! I watched your interview on Bay Sunday– lots of good ideas, I will add a link to that video if you like.Here are some interview questions, feel free to expand them.
2. What is your opinion on self-publishing vs. traditional publishing with an agent?
3. What do you feel is the most important thing that authors can do to promote their books?
4. What are your feelings on Social Media? (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc)
5. Do you feel that book marketing for fiction is different than book marketing for non-fiction?
6. What are some of the biggest mistakes that authors make when trying to promote their books?
7. Do you have any other useful advice for beginning authors?
8. How can authors contact you if they have any questions?
Defiant Press
Teresa
Writers’ Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says:
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
Book Reviewer Yellow Pages
Book Reviewers for November 2012:
Plus, Interview with Teresa LeYung-Ryan, professional book marketing coach!
Kevin’s Corner
RoseBuz
Regency Reader
so much to write so little time
Red Square Reviews
Dear Authors and Publishers,
We have a new batch of great book reviewers, as well a great interview with Teresa LeYung-Ryan, professional book marketing and writing coach. We will feature an interview with a different publishing professional each month. I hope our tools have been helpful, and improved the way you promote your own books.
As always, subscribers to our newsletter get an additional 48 hours to contact these new reviewers before we list them on our main website. Please respect their submission guidelines, and be polite. Thank you!
Defiant Press
Defiant Press
Here’s the answer to Question #1; please go to Christy Pinheiro’s StepByStepPublishing for answers to Questions 2 through 8 . . .
My name is Teresa LeYung-Ryan and my clients call me Writing-and-Platform-Building Coach Teresa. I wish to thank Christy Pinheiro-Silva for this interview, and, I encourage everyone to look for the core messages in my responses—which are: Reach out, not stress out, to material your dreams; and, wear your two hats as a writer and be happy(whether you’re writing fiction, narrative nonfiction, or prescription nonfiction also known as “how to” books/articles).This is what happened to me, over ten years ago, and the choices I’ve made.I had a dream—a dream of connecting with readers the way Maxine Hong Kingston touched me with her memoir The Woman Warrior. My writer’s journey started with learning the components of a story in a ten-week course Writing Children’s Literature at the community center and forming a critique group with three classmates after the course ended.Fast forward. After seven years of writing and rewriting, showing up at critique meetings twice a month, I received a gift from a friend—a brochure for the Jack London Writers’ Conference with an entry form for their writing contest.
Fast forward. My first novel Love Made of Heart (a mother-daughter love story) is used in college composition classes; available at public libraries; recommended by the CA School Library Association and the CA Reading Association; and archived at the San Francisco History Center. October 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of Love Made of Heart. The book is still in print, and, I continue to meet new fans.
For the past nine years, through my coaching and my workbook Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days, I have been helping writers reach out, not stress out, to attract agents, editors, publishers, readers, and media attention.
Writers’ Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan says:
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
- 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: “Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
- Teresa has built her own platform happily. Her first novel Love Made of Heart is used in college composition classes; available at public libraries; recommended by the CA School Library Association and the CA Reading Association; and archived at the San Francisco History Center. Love Made of Heart and her short play Answer Me Now carry the themes closest to her heart: mother-daughter relationship; Chinese-American immigrant experience; helping adult-children (of mentally-ill parents) speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their loved ones.
- Please visit Coach Teresa’s Events Page
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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
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October 1st, 2012 | Author: admin
More than ten years ago, if my super-agent Stacey Glick hadn’t landed a big publisher–Kensington in New York (insightful editor John Scognamiglio; good-energy publisher Laurie Perkin; Debbie Tobias was Sales Director; Lou Malcangi was art director, by the way . . . booksellers do judge a book by its cover; Libba Bray, who is now a New York Times bestselling author of young adult books, for book jacket copy; Jacquie Edwards for copy editing; and everyone at Kensington and their associates), I would not have had the opportunity to experience the publishing industry from that perspective . . . which then gave me the credentials to talk about “who” really is the most qualified person to build the author’s platform and fanbase.
Love Made of Heart (a mother-daughter love story) by Teresa LeYung-Ryan
Also, ten years ago . . . if not for independent sales reps (especially Nancy Suib and Anne Shulenberger), mentors at Kensington Publishing Corp. (especially Mary B. Morrison and Mary Monroe), booksellers (especially Anny Clevens at Borders, Luan Stauss of Laurel Books, Kate at Books, Inc., Mike and Tricia at Barnes & Noble), my husband, family and friends (from my personal circles, California Writers Club/Jack London Writers Conference, Women’s National Book Association, East Bay Regional Park District, Kim McMillon network, teachers, librarians, readers from far and near, and advocates who cheered for me — whether they revealed themselves, or not, to me) . . . my mother-daughter love story Love Made of Heart would not have “seen” so many birthdays. I am eternally grateful.
Happy Birthday, protagonist Ruby Lin!
Happy Birthday, Vivien Lin (Ruby’s mom)
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Nussbaum (Ruby’s neighbor / mentor)!
Happy Birthday, Dr. Gloria Thatcher (Ruby’s confidant)!
Happy Birthday, Emily, Vincent, and all supporting characters!
In other words . . . Happy 10th Anniversary of Love Made of Heart (my first novel)!
I didn’t know it at the time; my platform was in the closing statement to the audience every time I read a passage from my book Love Made of Heart (even before publication). A year after the hardcover edition was released, my editor at Kensington told me that they were going to release the trade-paperback edition. So, I wrote “Author’s Note to Reader” and Kensington added that page to the book. I thank the dear readers who had read the hardcover edition and asked me what/who was my muse and why I wrote about tabooed subject matter.
“Author’s Note to Reader”
Thank you for letting me share Ruby Lin’s story with you. Many readers have asked me what the characters in the novel have done for me. My answer is this: I’ve learned that behind every face is a compelling story.
Please remember me as a writer who says YES! to compassion for mental illness, and, NO! to domestic violence and child abuse.
Who is Mrs. Nussbaum? She lives in all our hearts. Just as we have the “child within,” we also have the “wise elder within.” May you always embrace your compelling story and allow your Mrs. Nussbaum to embrace you.
Sincerely,
Teresa LeYung Ryan
Video on Coach Teresa’s YouTube channel: Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan at Sonoma County Book Festival 2012
I was blessed with loyal supporters during the ten years writing the book. And, I am blessed with loyal supporters (so many big hearts) who continue to cheer for me, even now, ten years after publication. I encourage every writer to “not give up” and “stay true to the self.”
Video on Bay Sunday’s Youtube channel: Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author: Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase in 22 Days
As I said to Bay Sunday Host Frank Mallicoat on CBS Channel 5 and to the writers at Kim McMillon’s “Writers On Writing” workshop . . . “What I care about will turn into themes I write about. And, the themes I write about will attract my fans.”
So, the foundation of one’s platform-statement begins with three simple-yet-powerful words: “I care about . . . ”
You (the author) are the most qualified person to build your platform and fanbase.
Example: (as a writer of fiction, narrative nonfiction, including memoirs )
I am Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart. I care about helping adult-children (of mentally-ill parents) speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their loved ones.
Example: (as a writer of prescriptive nonfiction a.k.a. “how to” )
I am Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan, author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days. I care about helping writers thrive in today’s publishing arena.
If Love Made of Heart didn’t get published (giving me a forum to learn about “staying alive and well” in the industry), I wouldn’t have developed the expertise to help other writers survive and thrive (through coaching and my workbook Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW
To my dear friends, colleagues, mentors who inspire me and rally for me, please let me know how I can pay it forward.
I cheer for everyone who has a dream!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa
Coach Teresa’s definition of Writer’s Platform: “Making your name stand for something—to attract targeted consumers—who are likely to buy what you have to sell.”
print edition ISBN: 978-0983010005
Kindle ebook edition ASIN: B005J9ZEIA
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September 19th, 2012 | Author: admin
Authors Margie Yee Webb, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Rita Lakin join forces for fun at Sonoma County Book Festival
If you’re going to be at the festival, or, if you know any of the authors, tell us by submitting a comment to this post. Click on the blue header of this post, scroll down to get the boxes, fill in the boxes and press [submit comment] button. Consider keeping a copy of your comment (before pressing submit-comment button) and use it in your own email signature-block and on other blogs.
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authors Margie Yee Webb, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Rita Lakin will be exhibiting their books at the Sonoma County Book Festival
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Saturday September 22, 2012, 10:00am – 4:00pm in Santa Rosa, CA
authors Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Margie Yee Webb, Rita Lakin
will be exhibiting their books at the
Sonoma County Book Festival at Old Courthouse Square
Fourth Street and Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA
Look for Margie, Teresa and Rita at Booth B2 (near Information/Raffle Booth which is B1)
Margie Yee Webb is author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings: Insight and Inspiration for a Wonderful Life
Teresa LeYung-Ryan (a.k.a. Coach Teresa) is author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days; Love Made of Heart; Answer Me Now
Rita Lakin is author of the Gladdy Gold mystery series – Getting Old Can Kill You; Getting Old Is A Disaster; Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux; Getting Old Is To Die For; Getting Old Is Criminal; Getting Old Is The Best Revenge; Getting Old Is Murder
We are going to see many colleagues . . . from Redwood Writers (California Writers Club), Women’s National Book Association, 6th Street Playhouse, Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, Literary Arts Guild, Free Bookmobile of Sonoma County, Friends of the Library . . . including Festival Director Frances Caballo, Redwood Writers Volunteer Coordinator Robbi Sommers Bryant, Kate Farrell, Redwood Writers Village’s Readers Circle Coordinator Ana Manwaring, Amanda McTigue, bigwords101 – Arlene Miller, Harry Reid, Linda Reid, Melissa Kelley, Jana McBurney-Lin, Local Author’s Distribution – Jeane Slone, Juanita J. Martin, Kid Lit Corner: Get Out Books & Black Garnet Press, Susan Pace-Koch, Cara Black, Laura Rennert, P.S. Foley, Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Rita Lakin, Margie Yee Webb. Also look for Copperfield’s, Harper Davis Publishers, Healdsburg Literary Guild, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Poetry Flash, Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, Sitting Room, Sixteen Rivers Press. For a full list of exhibitors this year, please go to: http://www.socobookfest.org/exhibitors/
Cheering for all writers and readers!
Sincerely,
“Reach out, not stress out, to materialize your dearest dreams.”
http://writingcoachteresa.com
Please click here to see Coach Teresa interviewed by Frank Mallicoat on Channel 5 Bay Sunday - the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am.
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September 16th, 2012 | Author: admin
Writers’ Platform & Fanbase-Building Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan here to say:
“I had such a good time on CBS Channel 5 Bay Sunday. My big thanks to: Arts-in-the-Valley radio show host Kim McMillon, Bay Sunday producer Akilah Bolden-Monifa, Bay Sunday host Frank Mallicoat (3 time Emmy Award journalist), Bay Sunday team (including audio expert Francisco Gomez, interns Jennifer and Chelsea, the gurus behind stage), colleagues Joan Gelfand, Ishmael Reed, and Pireeni Sundaralingam, and all my friends and clients who cheered for me and my colleagues.”
Please click here to see the segment on Bay Sunday’s YouTube channel - the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am.
What is a platform anyway? A platform is what your name stands for – what you care about.
After you watch the interview, please come back to this post. What do you care about?
Tell us by submitting a comment to this post.
1. Click on the blue header of this post
2. Scroll down to get the boxes
3. Fill in the boxes and press [submit comment] button. Consider keeping a copy of your comment and post it in your email signature-block and on other blogs. This is how you broadcast your platform.
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Please click here to see the segment on Bay Sunday’s YouTube channel - the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am.
As coach and author of Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW, I say: “Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, make your name synonymous with the issues you write about.”
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Please click here to see the segment on Bay Sunday’s YouTube channel - the show was aired on September 9, 2012, 5:30am.
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I care about helping writers thrive in the publishing arena. Coaching writers before and after publication is what I enjoy doing. Some clients prefer my coaching them 5 to 15 minutes a day for 22 consecutive days ( in-person, via Skype or phone calls); some prefer an hour or two hours at a time. Start with my workbook — You can sneak preview the 2 exercises for Day 1 in Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days by going to Amazon and take advantage of their “Look Inside” feature.
How to contact me? Click here please.
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I cheer for all writers!
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa
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