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...]

BAIPA member Karin Fisher-Golton will be doing author events in Oakland, El Cerrito, and San Rafael. She had been thinking that November and December are the perfect times to share about the themes of her board book My Amazing Day: A Celebration of … [Read more...]