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Registration open to both men and women! Pitch Your Books!
Pitch-O-Rama 2014 Meet the Agents and Editors
Saturday, March 29, 2014, 8:00 am – 12:30 pm
sponsored by Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter
Meet our experts: Peter Beren, Amy Cloughley (Kimberly Cameron), Rachel Neumann (Parallax Press), Georgia Hughes, (New World), Brenda Knight (Viva Editons), Laurie McLean (Foreword Literary), Pooja Menon, (Kimberley Cameron), Michael Larsen, Elizabeth Pomada (Larsen-Pomada Agency), Alan Rinzler, Andy Ross, Brooke Warner (She Writes Press) Click here for full listing.
The event includes a FREE pre-pitch session and mentoring throughout the morning in our Green Room, an adjacent classroom to the main event in the Audre Lorde Room (both on the second floor) with Catharine Bramkamp, Patricia V. Davis, and Mary E. Knippel.
Immediately following the two-hour pitch session is a lively panel discussion on the controversial topic, Categorizing “Women’s” Fiction: Helpful or Hurtful? moderated by member/author Rayme Waters, with Book Club expert and blogger, Marsha Toy Engstrom, and acclaimed historical fiction author, Anita Amirrezvani.
TO REGISTER: http://wnba-sfchapter.org/pitch-o-rama-2014/
Space is limited! Cost: $65 WNBA members, $75 non-members
I wish everyone lots of fun!
Teresa LeYung-Ryan aka 22-Day Coach Teresa helps clients identify their themes and archetypes; she is the author of:
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (workbook for all genres)
Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby (novel used in college courses)
“Talking to My Dead Mom” monologues
Coach Teresa’s website http://writingcoachTeresa.com
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I’ve been hearing about Smart Cookies on the radio, so, I Googled “Smart Cookies”
http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/money/debt/slideshow1_ss_showus
Oprah.com webpage says: [Last year, 24-year-old Katie Dunsworth decided it was time for her and her friends to stop spending, start saving and get richer. Katie saw Oprah's Debt Diet show and decided to take action. The show motivated Katie and four friends to start a money group and get smart about their spending, saving and investing. They call themselves the Smart Cookies. As a team, the women set up weekly meetings, confess their debt, make a plan to "pay it down" and start investing. "Really the one thing that came across is we need to be held accountable," Katie says.]
In my professional life, I belong to a smart group too. Smart woman Linda Lee and I, Writing-Career Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan, invited 5 colleagues and formed a master-mind group. Each woman had specific goals, different interests, but we had one thing in common–we were all writers. At our first meeting on March 29, 2008, we set up rules, goals and commitments, and pledged to support each member of the group as well as the group as a whole. 7 women. 7 colleagues. We called ourselves the Savvy Seven and met once a month.
Linda Lee, founder of Smart Women Stupid Computers http://smartwomenstupidcomputers.com/ and AskMePc http://askmepc.com/
Teresa LeYung Ryan, Writing-Career Coach Teresa http://writingcoachteresa.com http://writingcoachteresawordpress.com http://www.LoveMadeOfHeart.com/
Mary E. Knippel, Creativity Mentor http://openuptoyourcreativity.com/
Martha Alderson, International Plot Consultant http://blockbusterplots.com/
Luisa Adams, award-winning writer, author of Woven of Water http://www.rp-author.com/Adams/
Lori Noack, founder of Lori Noack Arts Management. She’d be a super executive director for any organization.
Rebecca Martin, founder of Dear Jane, a Career Advisement Company http://www.dearjane.info/
Each member of Savvy Seven has accomplished her goals & commitments; each one is pursuing new dreams. March 2010 will be our second anniversary.