At the October 22 meeting of the California Writers Club–Marin, John Byrne Barry, winner of the 2015 BAIPA Best Book Award, will be presenting "When Plots Collide — Create Suspenseful Page-Turners by Weaving Multiple Storylines." We often think of … [Read more...]
Get more clarity and focus with your writing
I strongly recommend you check out this special Workshop for Authors that BAIPA member Deborah Myers has put together. I can personally recommend her as a Certified Accupressurist and Jim Shin Jyutsu practitioner. Her expertise has helped me feel … [Read more...]
Maetreyii Ma Launches New Book
Dear Friends Please join us next Saturday, December 10, at a Christmas Party to celebrate the book launch for my new book: Living Love: The Yoga of Yama and Niyama The party will include: Sattvic Vegetarian Potluck * Kirtan * Secret Santa … [Read more...]
Patricia Dines Offers Holiday Discounts on Her Book
My Goddess books and art greeting cards are starting to roll out into stores! Plus, I was delighted to participate in the World Goddess Day event at Sebastopol's Milk & Honey on Sept. 4. I'm offering holiday and quantity discounts on the … [Read more...]
Marilyn Skinner Lanier to Appear at Book Passage
My book launch for Hardpan is now set for Monday, May 8, 2017 from 6-7 pm at the Book Passage in the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero, San Francisco. I'll share some pics of my childhood ranch in Clark, Wyoming (setting for my novel) and photos … [Read more...]
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth Wins Awards
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth received runner-up status for her WWII paranormal suspense novel, Expect Trouble, in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition. Check out the promo video. And her latest book, Expect Deception, the second book in … [Read more...]
Marilyn Skinner Lanier’s Travelogue on Wyoming Book Tour
This one-week trip in early August was both a sentimental journey to my childhood ranch in northwest Wyoming (the setting for my debut novel, Hardpan) and book tour of indie bookstores in the state. … [Read more...]
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Book-Browsing Adventures
BOOK-BROWSING ADVENTURES by Dawn Marie Carlson While on a recent bookstore expedition at Copperfield’s in Novato, I uncovered this gem, Good Prose – The Art of Nonfiction – Stories and advice from a lifetime of writing and editing. The authors … [Read more...]
Red Quill Workshop: Romance with Impact
BAIPA President Becky Parker Geist found this very interesting workshop. Enjoy! REGISTRATION BEGINS NOW! Mark your calendars for the October 1st, 2016 workshop … spaces are limited! Sacramento Valley Rose, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley … [Read more...]