Are You Ready for Prime-time? If you’re one of the many writers in our group, how would you answer this question: “When is your work finished?” If you are a poet, chances are the answer is “Never!” But if your writing is prose, then you know you … [Read more...]
Author Interview — Shari Weiss in Conversation with John Byrne Barry
In the continuing series of BAIPA members interviewing BAIPA members, Shari Weiss recently interviewed John Byrne Barry. Q: How did you come to write Bones in the Wash? I wanted to write the kind of book I like to read — fun, fast-paced, full of … [Read more...]
John Byrne Barry on New Mexico Tour with Bones in the Wash
New Mexico Book Tour—Better Late Than Never Next week, seven years after knocking on doors all over Albuquerque for Barack Obama, and two years after publishing my first novel—Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough, Family is Tougher, which is set in … [Read more...]
John Byrne Barry Gets an Interview, a Review and More, for His Book, Wasted
Wasted Author Gets Boost from Berkeleyside Interview, Plus Review from Berkeley Recycling Veteran By John Byrne Barry After an excellent turnout at Copperfield’s Books in San Rafael, my Wasted Author Tour went to Berkeley for a reading at Urban Ore … [Read more...]
Wasted Author Tour Comes to Copperfields in San Rafael on October 17
I will be reading from Wasted, my “green noir” mystery set in the Berkeley recycling world, at Copperfield’s Books in San Rafael on Saturday, October 17 at 7pm. Please join me for what I promise will be a fun and stimulating evening. In Wasted, … [Read more...]
Wasted Author Tour Comes to Berkeley, Marin
No one has written a mystery novel set in the recycling world. So I did. No, that’s not true. Maybe it is the first one, but I didn’t set out to break new ground, only to write a fun and fast-paced read in a setting that I found intriguing—the … [Read more...]
John Byrne Barry Interviews Gael Chandler
Walking the Historic Streets of San Francisco After 30 years in Los Angeles working as a film editor, teacher, and author of three books on editing, Gael Chandler returned to the Bay Area, where she wrote "Chronicles of Old San Francisco," a history … [Read more...]
Author Interview — Doug Greene’s Journey from Grief to Grace
Shameless Self-Promotion or Selfless Promotion of Others? One benefit of being a BAIPA member is, or should be, an opportunity to get more readers for whatever we’re writing. But many of us, especially those of us born in the Midwest, where modesty … [Read more...]