By popular demand, the Wild Writing Women have put together a workshop for travel writers. The first one will be held January 25 & 27, 2003 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Wild Writing Women Travel Writers Conference Only five of the WWW will be participating, and I will not be one of them. But […]
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So, it’s the author’s job?
When I worked at Travelers’ Tales, we submitted several of our books for awards every year. And we won awards every year. The titles that did win often got award stickers to place on the covers and it was good press for us as publishers. Needlesstosay it was an ego boost for the authors as […]
» Read more...WWW October Salon: Tracy Johnston
Pamela Michael is hosting this month’s Salon and her guest is Tracy Johnston, author of a book that is on almost everyone’s list of favorite travel books: Shooting the Boh: A Woman’s Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo. (Now in it’s 13th printing!) Tracy has been a journalist and magazine editor for most of […]
» Read more...Bruce Kelley, editor-in-chief of San Francisco Magazine
Last night was another smash hit for the Wild Writing Women. Our monthly literary salon at the Monticello Inn continues to draw a lively crowd of over 50 people. Wine and appetizers are provided by the Monticello Inn and Puccini & Pinetti. It’s a great time for writers, editors, publishers, and other artists or journalists […]
» Read more...Hosting the WWW Aug Lit Salon
I can’t believe it’s August already! And that means that the first Wednesday of the month is the Wild Writing Women’s Literary Salon! This month, I’m hosting and our guest speaker is Bruce Kelley, Editor-in-Chief of San Francisco Magazine. Writers, publishers, agents, and book lovers — if you’re in town, please stop by for wine, […]
» Read more...Wild Writing Women June Newsletter
I don’t know how we do it, I really don’t. May was a busy month for the Wild Writing Women,what with our trip to New York for the BEA, and all the various adventures that we’ve taken on individually. To catch up on our latest books, Bay Area events, trips, Pacific Northwest tour, and of […]
» Read more...Stories of World Travel event @ Easy Going
The event went well enough, but our expectations have risen to a high level rather quickly. At 40 people in the room, it didn’t have near the attendance or book sales as the previous year, but Audrey, Michael and the gang were happy to see our return. Stories of World Travel is their leading non-guidebook […]
» Read more...“The Art of Writing Travel Literature”
Tonight, the Wild Writing Women have an event at Easy Going Travel Shop and Bookstore. I’ll be mediating the panel discussion following the readings, and just threw together a few topics that we could discuss. I know it’s a bit late to notify you about the event so that you can come, but please let […]
» Read more...Kipen calls us “the Bay Area’s own travel-writing supergroup”
The Saturday of our return from the BEA, the Wild Writing Women were happy to see our names in David Kipen’s book column in the San Francisco Chronicle. I’m not sure which was more fun, reading that David Kipen suggested that Oprah would be proud of us, or getting Jacqueline’s alert email that morning. Check […]
» Read more...BEA 2002: small publishers v. bigger publishers
It is interesting that when authors are touting their books for publication, they often look to the big houses first because that’s where the money is. Now of course I’m generalizing, but I think you can see the logic in that. After all, an author who has just toiled for what possibly could have been […]
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