Tuesday night’s Query Roulette event was a great success for the agents, writers, and those of us behind the scenes. As volunteers for the event, we had a hectic but enjoyable experience, doing everything from sign-in to timekeeping to photography. More importantly, we had the chance to meet an amazing…
Happy March everyone! We’re so excited to start the month off by telling you about a New York Bookwoman contest, open to all current members! If you are interested in becoming a member, please follow this link. The Forgotten Words Contest is simple. We give you a group of forgotten…
WNBA-NYC member Melissa Rosati is a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC) and the owner and CEO of Melissa’s Coaching Studio and Melissa’s Social Media Studio, LLC, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Pace University. In her new radio program, Melissa will be interviewing WNBA-NYC member Deirdre Bair, who is…
This week we take our Around Town feature to Brooklyn, where locals have long patronized the independent bookstore BookCourt. Established in 1981, BookCourt serves the Court Street neighborhood with top notch customer service, recommendations, reading groups, and in-store events. Their busy event calendar offers Brooklynites great opportunities to meet and…
In honor of tomorrow’s much anticipated Query Roulette, this Member Monday interview spotlights Helen Wan, who found her agent at a previous Query Roulette! Read about her experience, her new book, and her advice to Query Roulette attendees below. Helen Wan is a writer whose first novel, tentatively titled THE…
What makes Query Roulette so amazing? Our witty New York Bookwoman editor, Rhona Whitty, explains. Go in Peace, and Pitch No More If Temple Grandin were asked to design a humane format for writers to meet agents, she’d come up with WNBA’s Query Roulette. I’m not kidding. Just because writers…
In the latest WNBA Reads newsletter feature, Rachel Weiss-Feldman reviews I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum. At age 13, I came home from camp to two new additions to the family: a yellow Labrador named Susie and MTV…
When: Tuesday, March 20, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Where: Jackson Diner, 72 University Place (btw. 10th & 11th) RSVP by March 18 to Janet Mazefsky: jmazefsky (at) aol (dot) com More details to come!
Fiction lovers of New York, take note! The Center for Fiction is a non-profit organization devoted solely to celebrating fiction. Through their numerous panels, lectures, and other events, the Center for Fiction connects writers to their readers. The Center, located on East 47th St., supports budding writers, curious readers, and…
February is a busy month for the women of the WNBA. Read below to see what some of our members have been up to! Deborah Batterman explores what it feels like to see the light at the end of a work-in-progress. So many hours, days, months, years of work coming to…
