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September 24, 2011 10:00am – 4:00pm
The Sonoma County Book Festival
Celebrating the Literary Arts & Promoting Literacy
Old Courthouse Square, Fourth Street and Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA
Please look for Women’s National Book Association and California Writers Club colleagues Teresa LeYung-Ryan, Margie Yee Webb, Kate Farrell at their booth #34 (on 4th Street near Mary’s Pizza Shack) and on the Redwood Reading Circle Stage orchestrated by Ana Manwaring.
Other WNBA/CWC members at the book festival: Leigh Anne Lindsey & Persia Wooley at Booth 54, Linda Joy Myers, Zoe FitzGerald Carter, Laurel Anne Hill at Booth 31, Lynn Goodwin & Marcia Canton at Booth 59, Linda Loveland Reid & Redwood Writers at Booths 79 & 80 Who else?
Also visit the Redwood Writers / Redwood Reading Circle Stage to look for Ana (orchestrating this stage), Laurel Anne, Kate, Margie, and me Teresa. We are excited to be with luminaries including Belva Davis and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Amanda McTigue will be at Booth #20
Kay Mehl Miller, Ph.D. (author of Living with the Stranger in Me: An Exploration of Aging) at Bay Area Publishers Association booth
Who Will be on the Redwood Reading Circle Stage at Sonoma County Book Festival?
Melissa Kelley, Director of Sonoma County Book Festival
Ana Manwaring orchestrates Redwood Reading Circle Stage!
10:00-10:45 am The Sitting Room – MC Clarise Stasz
10:45-11:00 am Redwood Writers New books out: Linda McCabe & Robbi Sommers Bryant
11:00-11:30am Broad Universe: Rapid Fire Readings – MC Ann Wilkes
1. Ann Wilkes
2. Emerian Rich
3. Laurel Anne Hill
4. Valerie Frankel
5. Camille Picott
11:30-12:00 Not Just the Facts: Journalism Today – MC Robert Digitale
“Come hear journalists, the people who track down great stories.”
1. Robert Digitale, blogger/journalist
2. Carylon Alexander, editor, Travel Host Magazine
3. Jane S. MacLean, journalism
4. Arlene Miller, blogger/newsletters/educational writing
5. Kay Mehl Miller, a journalist looks at aging
12:00-12:30pm Redwood Writers Memoir Contest Winners — MC Patsy Taylor
1st Pat Tyler-Momma at the Swimming Hole
2nd Jasmine Belenger-Looking for Jeasus
3rd Jean Wong-Saving Catfish
12:30-1:00pm Sisters in Crime MC Malena Eljumaily
1. Clair M. Johnson
2. Darrell James
3. Patricia Morin
1:00-1:45 pm California Writers Club–Vintage Voices Anthology MC Jeanne Miller
1. Juanita J. Martin
2. Jeanne Jusaitus
3. Cindy Pavlinac
4. Barbara Teboni
5. Carol Collier
6. Arlene Miller
7. Mark Pavlichek
8. Patsy Taylor
9. Zara Rabb
10. Susanna Solomon Broccoli Dance
1:45-2:00 pm WNBA (Women’s National Book Association) MC Ana Manwaring
1. Margie Yee Webb
2. Teresa LeYung-Ryan
2:00-2:45 pm Wisdom has a Voice Anthology– MC Susan Bono
1. Kate Farrell
2. Ana Manwaring- Not My Mother’s Child
3. Jeanne Jusaitus- Liebestraum: A Daughter’s Reflection
4. Clarice Stasz- Edgewood
5. Barbara Teboni- A Moon Song
6. Laura McHale Holland- Little Traveler
3:00-3:30 pm BAIPA (Bay Area Independent Publishers Assn.) MC Sandy Baker
1. Sandy Baker
2. Gary Turchin
3. Carolyn C.J. Jones
4. Carol Sheldon
5. Eugene Miller
6. Susan Pace-Koch
7. Shelley Buck
8. Margaret Murray
3:30-3:40pm Redwood Writers Short Story Contest Winners — MC Elspeth Benton
1. Jan Edwards
2. Laura McHale Holland
3:40-4:00pm Redwood Writers Raffle Winners MC Linda Reid
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La Rosa Restaurant Tequileria & Grille, 500 Fourth Street
2:30 Maxine Hong Kingston with the Veterans Writing Group
Sincerely,
Coach Teresa
Teresa LeYung-Ryan says: “I am so looking forward to this event! See you there !”
$9.81 for ebook; $22 for print edition
Love Made of Heart inspiring adult children of mentally ill parents to speak openly about the stigmas and find resources for their families.
As a manuscript consultant, Teresa LeYung-Ryan loves helping writers identify their themes and archetypes.
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/teresaleyung
Teresa on facebook! She’s also involved in Women’s National Book Association and California Writers Club.
How to Pitch a Novel, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, or How To Book to Agents and Acquisition Editors
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22-Day Platform-Building Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan helps authors with their pitches at "Speed Dating with Agents & Acquisition Editors" at WNBA's signature event
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How to Pitch a Novel, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, or How-To Book to Agents and Acquisition Editors
Saturday March 26, 2011
This morning colleague Jane Glendinning and I had a chance to catch up since October last year when I met the delightful writers (and saw Sarah Clark!) at California Writers Club Berkeley Branch.
Jane and I had shared an adventure when Oakland public libraries were in danger of severe budget cuts. This morning 7:40am our walk from BART Embarcadero station to Sinbad’s Restaurant was another adventure in San Francisco. Rain. Puddles. We were on our way to help authors pitch their projects at the WNBA signature event “Meet the Agents & Acquisition Editors”
The reward was working with fellow members at Women’s National Book Association. Jane Glendinning and Birgit Soyka helped Meet-the-Agents Event Chair Judith Marshall and Chapter President Lynn Henriksen set up while Treasurer Christopher Payne and beloved Vicki Weiland greeted attendees at registration. VP Kate Britton had worked miracles pulling online registration data. Mary Jo McConahay took photos (We are so happy for Mary Jo. Two years ago at this same event, Mary Jo met agent Andy Ross. Her book, Maya Roads, will be published on August 1, 2011.)
Tanya Egan Gibson, Mary E. Knippel and yours truly Teresa LeYung Ryan helped authors fine-tune their pitches.
Karen Folger Jacobs & Diane LeBow I always get a kick seeing you two power-women.
Talking Tagline Coach Elisa Southard couldn’t be there because she was at the Bay Area Travel Writing planning retreat. Diane LeBow also headed to that meeting after the pitch fest.
Mathilde Schmidt and Carla Danziger – great seeing you both. I met new member Janine Kovac. Welcome aboard!
Valerie Mihalache, it was wonderful seeing you.
The 11 agents/acquisition editors/publishers included WNBA members Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen (who are co-founders of San Francisco Writers Conference and Writing for Change Conference), Laurie McLean, Jennifer Joseph, Amy Burkhardt, Andy Ross, Brooke Warner, Georgia Hughes, Gordon Warnock, Jeanette Perez, and Peter Beren!
Zoe Fitzgerald Carter, author of Imperfect Endings, gifted us with a candid talk about her publishing journal, the folks who helped her share her remarkable story with readers, and what she’s working on now.
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW is available through Amazon. Read success stories (on Amazon) from writers who have finished the 22-day workbook I created to help fiction and nonfiction authors gain a competitive edge. Whether you want to be your own publisher or sell rights to another publisher, attract readers and more readers now! http://writingcoachteresa.com
http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/is-there-a-book-to-help-a-writer-build-platform-and-fanbase/
Women in Women’s National Book Association have related news.
The Women’s National Book Association announces that Masha Hamilton has been chosen the winner of the 2010 WNBA Award. The award is presented by WNBA to a living American woman who derives part or all of her income from books and allied arts, and who has done meritorious work in the world of books beyond the duties or responsibilities of her profession or occupation.
Ms. Hamilton also established the Afghan Women’s Writing Project in 2009 “to foster creative and intellectual exchange between Afghan women writers and American women authors and teachers.” The website publishes the work of Afghan writers under the mentorship of AWWP participants, including authors, poets, essayists, memoirists, and others.
Previous winners of the WNBA award included Kathi Kamen Goldmark and Dr. Perri Klaas. NEW YORK www.wnba-books.org
Thank you, Joan Gelfand, immediate-past president (and poet extraordinaire), for the news.
Meanwhile, WNBA member Diane LeBow has this new:
March 30, 2011 11:30am-1:00pm Kabul Restaurant in Burlingame, California
The Afghan Friends Network is holding a benefit lunch on March 30, 2011 at Kabul Restaurant in Burlingame: “Connections: Joining Hands and Hearts for Afghanistan” Guest speaker is Fariba Nawa, an award-winning Afghan-American journalist. Join us in a traditional, celebratory Afghan luncheon. More info: http://afghanfriends.net/
Thank you, award winning writer and photojournalist Diane LeBow, for telling me about this benefit luncheon. Recently Dr. LeBow read from her Afghan stories for Left Coast Writers at Book Passage in the Ferry Building, San Francisco. There were about 50 in the audience.
In San Francisco, we have 2 events to cheer for:
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Meet-the-Agents Live. Writers Speed-Date to success. Only 15 spaces left. Click here http://www.wnba-sfchapter.org for agent and
editor bios, the scoop on the keynote lunch with Zoe Fitzgerald Carter, and to register.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The 15th Annual Effie Lee Morris Lecture: TRICKSTERS!
Guest lecturer: Gerald McDermott – the Art of the Folktale
San Francisco Public Library, Lower Level, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), SF, CA www.sfpl.org
5:00pm Reception & Book Signing; 6:00pm Lecture presented FREE by
Children & Youth Services and the Fisher Children’s Center of the
San Francisco Public Library and Women’s National Book Assoc-SF
Chapter. Board members of WNBA (a co-sponsor of this lecture)
encourage all members (especially authors of children’s literature)
to attend this event… a tradition in San Francisco. Effie Lee Morris
founded the San Francisco Chapter of Women’s National Book
Association. This annual lecture is just one of the many legacies
Effie Lee Morris left for readers and writers.
My best wishes to everyone ! See you at the San Francisco events,
Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart, cheers for brave immigrants.
22-Day Coach Teresa
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW is available through Amazon. Read success stories (on Amazon) from writers who have finished the 22-day workbook I created to help fiction and nonfiction authors gain a competitive edge. Whether you want to be your own publisher or sell rights to another publisher, attract readers and more readers now! http://writingcoachteresa.com
http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/is-there-a-book-to-help-a-writer-build-platform-and-fanbase/
Getting to talk to an agent or an acquisition editor is a valuable experience.
What does an agent do? What does an acquisition editor do?
An agent represents the author. Agent earns his/her commission when he/she lands a publisher for the author. An acquisition editor buy authors’ works for the publisher he/she works for; publisher offers the author a contract (publisher buys/author sells the rights to publish); agent gets his/her 15% commission.
“Meet the Agents and Acquisition Editors” a signature event of Women’s National Book Association (WNBA-SF Chapter)
Saturday, March 26th, 2011 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Space is limited (we sold out last year) – register by March 15th, 2011
Sinbad’s Restaurant, Pier 2, San Francisco
$50 WNBA member, $65 non-member, or $75 at the door
8:00 to 9:00 am Bonus: Coffee and “How to Pitch Training” included from 8:00 to 9:00 am.
Coaches Teresa LeYung Ryan, Mary E. Knippel and Tanya Egan Gibson will help you with your pitches.
Coach Teresa’s examples of pitches from last year’s event: http://wnba-sfchapter.org/2-more-examples-on-how-to-pitch-to-agents-acquisition-editors-publishers-at-wnbas-signature-event/
Saturday March 26, 2011 You’ll get a chance to meet:
Amy Burkhardt of Kimberley Cameron & Associates
Brooke Warner is Senior Editor at Seal Press
Elizabeth Pomada is a partner in Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents
Georgia Hughes is editorial director at New World Library
Gordon Warnock is a Senior Agent with Andrea Hurst Literary Management
Jeanette Perez, Senior Editor, acquires for the HarperOne imprint based in San Francisco after six years at Harper Perennial.
Jennifer Joseph publisher and editor of Manic D Press
Laurie McLean is an agent at Larsen-Pomada Literary
Michael Larsen is a partner in Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents
Peter Beren
Bios, more info, registration: http://wnba-sfchapter.org/
New this year!
Keynote Luncheon – 12:30 – $30.00 – Menu selections on WNBA website.
WNBA author Zoe FitzGerald Carter will share her journey to the publication of her memoir, Imperfect Endings, recently optioned for film. Join us for lunch and rub elbows with agents and acquisition editors.
Note: Must be registered to attend
See you there! Tell your writer-friends.
Sincerely,
22-Day Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan
http://writingcoachteresa.com
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