I hope you can join me at my book launch Sunday, January 8, 2023 from 4-6 PM at Homestead Valley Community Center, 315 Montford Avenue, Mill Valley, CA. The launch is part of an art exhibit of portraits included in the book Women of Color and … [Read more...]
John Byrne Barry Talks About Character Voice, Setting, Humor and More on #badasswriters Podcast
Back in October, Kathleen Foxx, the Canada-based host of #badasswriters podcast, interviewed me, and we had a fun and stimulating conversation about character voice, memorable setting, and injecting humor into difficult subjects, like in my most … [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...]
New book provides ‘wit, wisdom, self-exposure’ of Woody Weingarten, author of its 70 columns
The Roving I, my just-launched book, can be a holiday gift for you, your family, and your friends — and that purchase can also act as a present of sorts for me, its author, since it coincides with my 85th birthday. The new anthology — available in … [Read more...]
Submit Your Book Cover to BAIPA Contest by November 21
David Kudler will lead a presentation on cover design at our December meeting and once again we will hold our annual book cover contest. (This is our fifth year, so it's now practically an institution!) Since we're not meeting in person, here's … [Read more...]
Join Patricia Sullivan for a Conversation About Her Memoir ‘Overland Before the Hippie Trail’
Author Patricia Sullivan will be discussing her travel memoir with her daughter Rebecca Sullivan Silbert, presented by the Ashby Village Exploring Creativity Group. See the notice below. November 13, 1-2:30pm on zoom. Register here. (Registration … [Read more...]
The Left Turn free ebook promo 8/11-13 – Becky Parker Geist
Free ebook promotion 8/11-13 BAIPA President Becky Parker Geist respectfully requests your participation in her free ebook giveaway Aug 11-13. Get your free copy of her book The Left Turn: Two Lives, Worlds Apart at https://amzn.to/3AqzZmq which … [Read more...]
Reading My Own Novel, Nine Years After Writing It
In June, I hiked and hung out with my brother-in-law at his family’s off-the-grid cabin at Echo Lake, and one evening, impatient with the library book I was reading on my tablet, I scrolled through what other books I had downloaded and there was my … [Read more...]
Join Us to Celebrate Launch of ‘I Used to Be Shy’ June 25 & July 16
We are delighted to introduce you to I Used To Be Shy, an illustrated story with songs about inclusion, belonging, and compassion.It’s Book Two in The Carla Stories. Book One is Sister Butterfly and Book Three, coming in 2023, is Special People. (See … [Read more...]
My Novel Takes Place in Sausalito, but I’m Calling it ‘Sausalypso.’ Is That a Good Idea?
I’m rewriting my fourth novel and I have a problem with the title. Or rather, others do. My tentative title is Sausalypso Houseboat Wars Murder Mystery or maybe I leave off the last word and call it Sausalypso Houseboat Wars Murder. I like it, … [Read more...]
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