Subjects covered Grant Faulkner is Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a yearly challenge to write fifty thousand words of a novel in one month. 500,000 writers in 200 countries participate in NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo offers events year-round, including Camp NaNoWriMo, a more casual version of NaNoWriMo that takes place in April and July.
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Memoir as a Method for Change
by Brooke Warner (Brooke Warner will be speaking with Michelle Tea on the topic of using your memoir as a force for change at San Francisco Writing For Change: Worldwide on September 8. Register and join us for this Inspiration Conversation!) I was twelve or thirteen when I read Go Ask Alice. It was fiction,
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Writing for Change: Worldwide Coming to You September 7-13!
By Laurie McLean When I took over as director of the San Francisco Writers Conference, the San Francisco Writers Foundation, and the Writing for Change conference a few years ago, little did I realize what challenges awaited me and the rest of the management team in 2020. We barely squeaked by holding the February San
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Fan Fiction and Copyrights-Interview with Entertainment Lawyer
Alex Bird Tillson is an entertainment lawyer and author. Interview by Ransom Stevens. Alex explained some of the nuances of fan fiction and its copyright implications. Alex noted that fan fiction does often infringe on copyright; however, many authors do not take action and some even appear supportive of fan fiction. Before writing fan fiction,
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Storytelling, Truth Telling in Nonfiction Writing
by Kate Farrell “You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built-in the human plan. We come with it.” – Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale. Today, storytelling is a hip trend in marketing campaigns because stories are the most successful way to engage and retain customers. In the last twenty years, TED talks
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Blogging Books & Writing for Change with Nina Amir
Author Nina Amir was asked what has changed since the first edition of her book, How to Blog a Book, which is about writing a book and building a platform at the same time. Nina noted that Google is constantly changing its algorithms and requirements about indexing content. Consequently, the amount of content that needs
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How to plan a book launch from the confinement of your own living room
by Kimberly Unger As authors we know all about what goes into writing a book in the first place, right? You may be a writer who plans out everything down to the semicolons. You may plan only the broadest strokes and rely on your improv capabilities to fill in the rest. Both of these are
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How and why to get book reviews
Carla King interview with Christopher Locke, Membership Liaison, IBPA Subjects covered The main subject of this episode is book reviews. IBPA prefers the term “author-publisher” because term “self-published” makes it sound as though au author do it all themselves; but, if they’re doing it right, they’re hiring people to help with the process. Trade reviews
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Motivation All Day Every Day
by Laurie McLean We began this Motivation Monday series of blog posts in early March to help writers of all levels and experience to weather the storm that was the Covid-19 pandemic and quarantine. We wanted to keep your spirits up. We wanted to share wisdom from other writers and people in publishing. We wanted
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How Will You Celebrate Juneteeth 2020?
By Rev. Harry Louis Williams, II aka O.G. Rev Many believe that it was the English philosopher Francis Bacon who first spoke the words, “knowledge is power” into existence. Hundreds of years later, novelist Tom Clancy put a twist on that ancient wisdom which might seem more apropos for these times. Clancy said, “The control
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