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…
We sat in the first row, so close to the front that the usher asked one of us (her) to take her program off the edge of the stage as we were sitting down. It was our date with Alan. Alan Rickman, of course, star of the Broadway show Seminar…
In her New York Bookwoman column, “UN Corner,” Jill Tardiff highlights UNICEF’s recent appeal for humanitarian aid in 2012. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced its appeal for $1.28 billion to provide humanitarian assistance to children in twenty-five countries. One third of the total amount requested is earmarked for…
We’re so excited to reveal our amazing line up of agents for Query Roulette! Click on the links below for more information on individual agents. Regina Brooks – Serendipity Literary Agency Matthew Elblonk – DeFiore and Co. Author Services Linda Epstein – Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency David Forrer – Inkwell Management Laura Langlie – Laura Langlie…
