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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Podcast: Three Questions about Memoir Writing with Linda Joy Myers
Memoirist Linda Joy Myers is the President and Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers. She answers three questions about memoir writing from host Carla King. Listen in and learn all about how to write a memorable memoir! http://traffic.libsyn.com/sfwriters/Myers_Podcast_5.3.19.mp3
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CHECK OUT OUR NEW LOOK! SFWC Redesigned Newsletter.
If you subscribe to the monthly San Francisco Writers Conference e-newsletter you may have noticed a difference in this last issue. We’ve updated our look to be more graphical, easier to navigate to find content you find most useful, and an all-around better experience. You can still find all the latest news from the SFWC
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