Bookmark This: Twitter Tips for Authors
Today’s featured links are especially for our WNBA members who are writers. About Book Publishing newsletter author Valerie Peterson has complied a list of some of the best Twitter tips for authors, including those from the late Roger Ebert. Enjoy and get tweeting! Roger Ebert on Books and Twitter Twitter…
Out and About in NYC
Hello WNBA-ers! Need to add events on your literary to-do list? Here’s what happening in and around New York City! American Poet Launch with the Academy of American Poets In celebration of National Poetry Month, Housing Works Bookstore is hosting a poetry reading to launch the spring 2013 issue of…
Member Monday: Say Hello to Jill Wisoff!
by Tqwana Brown Jill Wisoff is best known for songs and score for Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse, a Sundance Film Festival winner. A graduate of Bennington College, she has co-starred in film, performed off and off-off-Broadway and in musical stock, and has had screenplays optioned and in development. She…
Feature Friday: A New Way to “Kickstart” Your Writing Career
by Tqwana Brown What does crowd-sourcing mean for the publishing industry? For users of the website Kickstarter, it means getting your book into readers’ hands on your terms, bypassing the traditional publishing route. What Kickstarter does is allow users to crowd-fund creative projects of their choosing, including books. Since its…
Link of the Week: Celebrating National Poetry Month with the Found Poetry Review
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Found Poetry Review, a literary journal dedicated exclusively to publishing found poetry, presents Pulitzer Remix, a project of eighty-five poets from around the world creating found poetry from the 85 fiction winners of the Pulitzer Prize. “We recognize that there are many prestigious…
Around Town: New York City Book Events
It’s Tuesday, WNBA-ers, and that means more author, book, and publishing events in and around New York City! Enjoy! Sunday, April 14, 2013, 10:00am – 5:00pm A Downtown Literary Festival Bookstores McNally Jackson and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe are hosting their first annual festival to celebrate the literary culture of…
Member Monday: An Interview with New Member Karen Nourizadeh
by Tqwana Brown Karen Nourizadeh is a writer, yoga instructor, wellness expert, inspirational speaker and media contributor based in New York City, where she has been living for the past 22 years. After leaving Corporate America and a job as an attorney, Karen embarked on a journey to help people…
WNBA Wednesday: Now Is The Time to Join!
Why is now the best time to join the NYC Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA-NYC)? Because new memberships received over the next few months will extend through August 2014! If that’s not enough of a reason, our Membership Chairperson, Rachel Weiss-Feldman, explains all the great benefits below:…
Around Town: This Week’s Book Events
Happy Tuesday, WNBA-ers! Check out these events happening this week around the New York City area. Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Media Bistro is hosting a Book Club Party and reading, from 6:30-8:30pm at The Stand (228 Third Avenue, New York, NY). The event is free and will feature book giveaways…
