Editor, WNBA-NYC Blog: Tqwana Brown
Tqwana is a student at the Pace University M.S. In Publishing Program. A former High School teacher, she is switching gears to the publishing career track. Email | blog@wnba-nyc.org
Corresponding Secretary: Jennifer Cunningham-Lozano
Vice President, Communications: Linda Epstein
Linda is an Associate Agent at the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency. She blogs at The Blabbermouth. Email | linda.p.epstein@gmail.com
President: Jane Kinney-Denning
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…
