Planning Your Visit to an Archive or Library Do your homework Before you go to a library or archive be sure and start on step one of your research plan and read several books and articles on your topic so you have a good idea of the kinds of resources you want to find before
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Scholarships for the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference
When you simply HAVE to go to the SFWC! If the cost of the conference is keeping you from attending the 2020 San Francisco Writers Conference this February, do something about it immediately. This year we are offering seven scholarships…and each of them will award a registration to the conference. All you have to do
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Failing Your Way to Success: 6 Reasons for Writers to Make Mistakes
I never make misteaks. –Anonymous To achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail. –Kirk Douglas There is one simple way to avoid ever making another mistake: Do nothing. You’ll never make a mistake if you don’t do anything. But the more ambitious you are, the more mistakes you can count on making in
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Why Now is the Best Time to Be a Writer
There was a New Yorker cartoon showing an editor sitting across a desk from a writer who looks like Charles Dickens and saying: “Make up your mind, Mr. Dickens. Was it the best of times or the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.” It’s certainly a challenging time to be a writer, but for many reasons, it’s best time ever.
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The 10 Best Ways to Market Your Books
Social media is the number one marketing tool for authors today. Decades ago, you would have had to buy billboards or magazine ads or pay PR pros thousands of dollars to schedule drive-time radio interviews for you. Here are the 10 best ways to market your books and your brand. It’s a great time to
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SFWC and Mechanics Institute at the Bay Area Book Festival 2019
The San Francisco Writers Conference shared a booth with Mechanics Institute Library at the Bay Area Book Festival this past weekend. Barb and Rich Santos of SFWC, Taryn Edwards and Heather Terrell of MIL, and volunteers Robert McAdams and Simona Carini had a great time talking about our conferences and the joint MIL-SFWC year-round classes
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