Query Roulette 2014 Recap by Jessica Napp, Guest Blogger Jessica Napp is our new VP of Communications and the Associate Director of Publicity for Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. She focuses on publicizing and marketing lifestyle books ranging from interior design and fashion, to cooking, photography, and pop culture. Over the years…
KafkaRotica: Erotically Written Literary Fiction by Hannah Bennett and Peter Clark, Guest Blogger Hannah Bennett is a WNBA-NYC member and former Blog Editor. She graduated from Pace University in 2012 with a Masters in Publishing, and currently works as an ebook Production Manager. A bead of a sweat caked…
How Query Roulette Worked for Me – by Terri Weiss, Guest Blogger Terri Weiss, a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is listed in Best Lawyers in America. Her debut novel, Client Relations, represented by literary agent Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, is about…
Snowstorm Outside, Good Food & Conversation Inside: Neighborhood Lunch Recap – by Julia Rubin, Guest Blogger Julia Rubin was the winner of the WNBA-NYC’s first short short fiction contest. Her stories have been published in The Coe Review, The Bitter Oleander,and , among others. Her collection, Longing, Loss and Eggplants, was a finalist for the Serena McDonald…
LinkedIn 101: How to Put LinkedIn to Work for You Recap – by Pauline Hsia, Guest Blogger Pauline Hsia is Treasurer of the WNBA-NYC chapter and a member of the Young to Publishing Group. A former literary agent assistant at DSM Literary Agency, she is currently looking for project management-oriented opportunities. Below…
Holiday Party: Mix and A-Mingle is a Swell Time – by Liberty Schauf Liberty Schauf is the WNBA-NYC Blog and Social Media Co-Editor. Liberty moved to New York from Houston in May 2012. She completed her M.S. in Publishing degree at Pace University in December 2012. Her career goal is to…
Women Writing Women’s Lives: How I Got that Story – by Jenna Vaccaro, Guest Blogger Jenna Vaccaro is the Co-Editor of the chapter newsletter, New York Bookwoman, and has also represented the WNBA-NYC as a Youth Representative to the United Nations. She is also a graduate student in the MS in…
At New York Comic Con 2013 you could see fans sporting every costume from Star Trek to Star Wars, Disney to Doctor Who, The Avengers to The Justice League. However, not everybody in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center this past weekend was there to see new video games, comic…
The Writer’s Skinny on Amazon Market Central – by Melissa Rosati WNBA-NYC member, Melissa Rosati, CPCC, is a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC), an adjunct professor of publishing at Pace University, and the owner of Melissa’s Coaching Studio, LLC. Her clients are writers, artists, and nonprofits in healthcare and the…
In Conversation: Ruth Oseki and Carol DeSanti – by Deborah Batterman
If the WNBA-NYC networking event on September 11th was a reminder that writers thrive in community, the second event of the season resonated with the wisdom that we need quiet and possibly isolation to do our work. In a cozy room at Reflections, a Midtown yoga studio, attendees got to listen to Ruth Ozeki in conversation with Carol DeSanti.
Chapter President Jane Denning got the evening started with a very gracious introduction to “two remarkable women.” As Vice President, Editor-at-Large, at Viking Penguin, Carol DeSanti has gained a reputation for championing women’s voices in fiction; her novel, The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R, speaks to her own voice in the world of letters. As a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, Ruth Ozeki brings a multi-dimensional view to her work. In a Bookseller interview, she had this to say about a sense of displacement running through her three critically acclaimed novels: “I’ve always felt neither here nor there. Maybe for a writer that’s the best place to be. You’re never in the middle of the stream; you’re always on the edge looking in.” Her latest novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was recently named a Man Booker Prize shortlist selection.
