Friday, February 17, 2023 – The Bay Room at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco is packed for the all-day Writing for Hollywood Summit at the annual San Francisco Writers Conference. I'm here on a scholarship thanks to the Napa Valley branch of the … [Read more...]
Everything Intensely
John Byrne Barry's excerpt from When I Killed My Father – An Assisted Suicide Family Thriller is included in Everything Intensely, the anthology of the San Francisco Writers Conference 2022 Writing Contest. Everything Intensely is … [Read more...]
I Never Win Anything
Until now, that is! At the January 2023 meeting of Napa Valley Writers (a branch of the California Writers Club), I put my name in the hat for a drawing. The prize — a ticket to the all-day Writing for Hollywood Summit at the San Francisco Writers … [Read more...]
My New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year, fellow BAIPA members! What are your New Year's Resolutions? Here are mine... Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules for Writing Never open a book with weather. Avoid prologues. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue. … [Read more...]
Checklist for Submissions to the BAIPA Blog
As independent authors and publishers, we wear (too) many hats and sometimes it helps to have checklist. During the next few months, I'll be assisting John Byrne Barry with the BAIPA blog while he is busy directing his new play, “Sausalypso … [Read more...]
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth Finalist in Global Book Awards
Award-winning JoAnn Smith Ainsworth is a finalist in the Global Book Awards for her World War II paranormal suspense thriller Expect Obsession, released October 5, 2022. Philadelphia, 1943. Isadora “Izzy” Turgenev is stressed by the knowledge that … [Read more...]
Last Call: BAIPA Book Cover Contest Deadline is Monday, November 21
Don't forget to submit your book cover to our contest by November 21, which is tomorrow! You see all the specifications below. Any publication date is fine. Here are the rules for the contest. The contest is open to any book authored by a … [Read more...]
‘When I Killed My Father’ Named Finalist in San Francisco Writers Conference 2022 Writing Contest
BAIPA Board Member John Byrne Barry is one of twelve finalists in the San Francisco Writers Conference 2022 Contest in the category of Adult Fiction for his most recent novel, When I Killed My Father: An Assisted-Suicide Family Thriller. Per the … [Read more...]