I love serving on the BAIPA Board! What a fun and energetic group and one that is very committed to BAIPA's success and the success of its members! We meet on the first Monday of every month, 5:30-7:30 pm (dinner included), currently at McInnis Golf … [Read more...]

Greetings, fellow writers! This is Anne Jordan from the Northern California Writers. I had the great pleasure of meeting several of you at the BAIPA meeting recently. Since then, I've received requests for more information about The StoryTellers … [Read more...]

The Story Teller's Expo provides presentations and classes taught by successful writers and a Pitch Fest where you can lay out your projects for New York publishers, agents, Hollywood studios and producers. March 21-22, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency … [Read more...]

Karin Fisher-Golton will do a children's event at Laurel Book Store in downtown Oakland Saturday 11/15 at 2 p.m. She will read her board book, My Amazing Day: A Celebration of Wonder and Gratitude, sharing about how she and her collaborators turned … [Read more...]

Saturday, December 13, 12:30pm-3:30pm (right after the regular meeting) Come one - come all - to the BAIPA members-only holiday potluck party -- featuring our very own member editors! Member editors have been invited to host a table where they can … [Read more...]

Otis Chandler, grandson of the former owner of  Los Angeles Times, was inspired to create the book review site  GoodReads after trolling through a friend's bookshelf. The site succeeded wildly, Chandler recalls, because it addressed a looming … [Read more...]

Agent Peter Beren, a BAIPA Member, reports that he has worked out a new deal with Insight Editions to publish a revised edition of Art Wolfe's "Migrations," the classic  portrait  of migrating creatures, great and small, around the globe, as a … [Read more...]

If you live in the Sacramento area and are curious about what it takes to go from a finished manuscript to a real book available for sale, come hear what Ruth Schwartz, BAIPA board member, has to say at the monthly meeting of the Sacramento chapter … [Read more...]