Longtime, award-winning nature and conservation photographers and partners Nita Winter and Rob Badger have focused unwaveringly, for more than 20 years, on photographing wildflowers — both across the Western United States, and in particular, on … [Read more...]
DATE CHANGE ALERT: Join Us April 6 for ‘Business Side of Self-Publishing’
Due to a scheduling snafu, our regularly scheduled second-Saturday of the month meeting in April, is now on April 6. Not April 13. (You may receive several notices about this, as we don't want people to show up on the wrong date.) Helen … [Read more...]
What Is a Blog Tour, Anyway?
If you’re gearing up to promote your new book or to revive an already published title, you might think you should do a book tour. Contact bookstores and cafes. Make posters. Sell books out of the trunk of your car. But in our wild and futuristic … [Read more...]
Entering the ‘Winwood Deep State’ — A Film and Music Journey Following Brazilian Guitarist José Neto
Three months ago I parked my car in my carport just as the light for the empty fuel tank lit up. I had just returned from the bank, where my account was now in the red. I looked at myself in the rearview mirror to put on lipstick, and found the case … [Read more...]
BAIPA Board Elections at March 9 Meeting
We'll be holding board elections at our March meeting. The board will be elected by a majority vote of the members present on Saturday. If you want to vote, but cannot attend the meeting, you can request a ballot and we will email it to … [Read more...]
Diane Kelly to Launch Her True Story, ‘The Sky Turned Green and the Grass Turned Blue,’ at Book Passage March 9
When Diane Kelly's lover and friend, Jack, comes out seven years into their relationship expressing his well-kept secret desire to transition from male to female, Diane's world turns upside down. With little information to help her answer the … [Read more...]
Keywords in Book Descriptions — How to Make Them Work When Amazon Won’t
After the wonderfully informative presentation at BAIPA in January by David Kudler and Bob Heyman on the topic of keywords and categories, I then attended an IBPA webinar by Joshua Tallent on the same basic topic. As an audiobook producer who also … [Read more...]
Kudos to BAIPA Fiction Award Winners Bonnie Monte and Craig Smith
BAIPA President, Becky Parker Geist announced the 2019 Winner and Runner-up of the BAIPA Book Awards for Fiction at the Feb 9 meeting. Bonnie Monte won the Fiction Award for her book “The Sleeping Lady. Craig Smith was recognized as the runner-up … [Read more...]
How Improving Your Author Blog/Website Can Help You Sell More Books
(Author's Note: I talked about this at our BAIPA Writer’s World, and I published a version on Joel Friedlander’s The Book Designer website. Improving our writer/author blogs/websites is an ongoing and evolving issue.) (Editor's Note: Don't miss the … [Read more...]
BAIPA Board Elections Coming at January Meeting
At our January meeting, we will be asking BAIPA members to vote for members of the Board of Directors, as stated in our ByLaws. For open seats, we will ask at the January member meeting if people are interested in being on the Board. They can … [Read more...]
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