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…
Did you stop by the WNBA and National Reading Group Month booth at The Brooklyn Book Festival? Check out these photos, courtesy of Hannah Bennett and Michelle Weyenberg, who worked the booth last weekend. Missed this year’s festival? Get caught up with these recaps from around the web: LA Times: Some…
The Pen is Mightier than the Sword By Jenna Vaccaro, Guest Blogger This is the compassion that I have learnt from Muhammad-the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This is the legacy of change that I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.…
Wednesday evening , several members of the WNBA-NYC met up at the New York Public Library to take a trip through the history of children’s literature. From picture book classics, down Alice’s rabbit hole, through the Secret Garden, the Harlem Renaissance, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, we were…
by Tqwana Brown Do your feet hurt? Shoulders ache? Back sore? Then you, like me, are suffering from the BEA Experience. For four days last week, the Javits Center turned into a theme park for the publishing industry. Chances are your body is still recovering from walking the exhibition floor,…
In August, it was announced that author Ann Patchett had been chosen as the 2012-2013 WNBA Award recipient. Ms. Patchett is scheduled to receive her award at a reception being held June 9, 2013 at Parnassus Books, in Nashville – a bookstore she opened in 2011, with publishing veteran Karen…
by Heather Allen This year the women of the WNBA-NYC chapter organized a Bookstore Crawl on the Upper East Side. Our intimate group of seven braved a potential downpour to travel to these small, but significant bookstores. While at each store, we heard about the history and the ownership of…
Happy Friday WNBAers! In case you missed it, here are some photos from our annual Spring Potluck Brunch. Hope it inspires you to join us next year. Great food with a great group of ladies! Check out more on our Facebook page!
by Jenna Vaccaro, Guest Blogger Jenna Vaccaro is a Graduate Assistant at Pace University’s publishing program. She loves the intersection of media and technology and hopes to build a career combining the two fields. Jenna previously worked at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art and volunteers her time at NGOs…
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…
