Description Description: Meet the authors featured in the historical fiction panel on November 30th and learn some of the award-winning novels that focus on the dazzling jazz era of the 1920s. The main characters of these novels bring a strong and advancing approach to the time in order to show that a…
Description Description: Meet the authors of two compelling nonfiction books and learn the true stories of impressive women who were ahead of their times in many ways. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, these women changed the idea of what women’s work is and advocated for women’s freedoms and rights,…
In recent years, the publishing industry has thrived more than ever for aspiring authors to be published on many different platforms and break away from traditional publishing. Hybrid, small press, and independent publishing are among the [new] ways to be published. Going through this route does not always mean it…
Description: The Big 5 Publishers are not the only places to get your book published. Now, more than ever, hybrid, independent, and university presses offer more options to get your book published. Come hear how the authors Cheryl J. Fish, Celia Jeffries, and DeMisty D. Bellinger were able to go…
Across the country, April 30th is known as Independent Bookstore Day. This is the day that book lovers pay homage to all the independent bookstores to show their support for local businesses. The WNBA-NYC chapter and the WNBA-Metro Atlanta chapter, teamed up to tour their respective cities at different…
In honor of National Poetry Month, Haiku writing was the task for our WNBA-NYC subscribers. A haiku is a short poem in the format of typically five syllables in the first line, seven in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. Subscribers were asked to write a…
During Women’s History month and hosted by WNBA-National, an interview with author/historian Doris Weatherford and moderated by Valerie Tomaselli, the author shed light on volumes of history, notably regarding the long road to securing women’s right to vote. One graduate level course sparked Doris’s lifelong interest in women’s suffrage…
The recent resignation of four junior editors made news earlier this month which sparked a larger conversation about the role that assistants play, their workload, and advancement opportunities. Angeline Rodriquez and Hillary Sames at Orbit, Erin Siu at Macmillan Children’s, and Molly McGhee at Tor, all resigned and took to…
Maureen Kearns Howard, a highly acclaimed writer who trained her sharp eye on the Irish American experience as she had lived and observed it, died on March 13, 2022 at the age of 91. In addition to her nine novels, three of which were nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, she is…
You have your manuscript ready to go, now what? Do you find an agent or get an editor to look at it one more time? Do you start writing your query letter? What about book promotion and everything that goes with it? These were some of the pressing questions…
