The 10th Annual San Francisco Writer’s Conference is happening Thursday, February 14th through Sunday, February 17th, at the historic InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel.
BookBaby President Brian Felsen will be there and would love to see you at one of the many fabulous panels and sessions taking place throughout the week.
We’ve highlighted the sessions that Brian will be a part of below and you can view the complete schedule here.
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At the 2011 BEA, BookBaby president Brian Felsen interviewed author Vanessa Veselka.
Veselka’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Tin House, Zyzzyva, the FSG anthology Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, and Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Her debut novel Zazen won the 2012 PEN / Bingham prize for fiction.
In this clip, Veselka talks about some of her coping strategies for literary rejection (one of the certain perils of being a writer). Her advice is simple: don’t Google yourself and don’t read reviews of your work, negative OR positive!
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BookBaby president Brian Felsen interviewed Constance Hale, an American writer based in Oakland, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her journalism has appeared in metropolitan newspapers and national magazines, but she is best known for her books on language: Sin and Syntax and Wired Style.
In this clip, Hale talks about the rigorous, 7-step self-editing process she goes through with every piece before showing her work to editors, writing groups, or trusted friends.
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BookBaby president Brian Felsen recently interviewed editor Jody Rein and agent Katharine Sands.
Sands, a literary agent in New York City, recently published Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye. Katharine has been guest speaker on writing and publishing topics for The American Society of Journalists and Authors and The New York State Council on the Arts, and was a faculty member at the 2006 Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop.
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At this year’s LA Times Festival of Books, CD Baby president Brian Felsen interviewed David Ebershoff, an American-born writer, editor, and teacher. His second novel, Pasadena, was published in 2002 and was a New York Times bestseller. His third novel, The 19th Wife, published in 2009, was an international bestseller.
In this clip, Ebershoff talks about how the internet age has expanded the pool of influential reviewers and opened authors up to new opportunities to promote and discuss their work.
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At this year’s LA Times Festival of Books, CD Baby president Brian Felsen interviewed Janet Fitch.
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah’s Book Club novel White Oleander. She is a faculty member in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California where she teaches fiction.
In this clip, Fitch talks about her belief that truth can be found in dependent clauses, and that by slowing down to explore them she is able to flesh out crucial moments in the story that she might have otherwise passed by.
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In this clip, BookBaby president Brian Felsen speaks with New York Times best-selling author (and generous soul) CJ Lyons about book promotion methods that won’t drain your creative energy, how to invite your readers into the process, and a few tips you can try in your next email newsletter.
Check out the whole interview from the Frankfurt Book Fair below…
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In this video clip, BookBaby president Brian Felsen interviews award-winning poet and editor Matthew Zapruder about the place of poetry in the internet age, and how the experience of hearing and reading poetry will become more meaningful in our lives even as the internet (as an “enemy of the kind of consciousness that poems can produce”) creates a greater distance between the space of poetry and the rest of life.
As Wallace Stevens said, “The role of the poet is to help people live their lives.” As our lives become more anxious and distract-able, we’re going to need more and more help.
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Poet Joan Gelfand talks with BookBaby president Brian Felsen at the San Francisco Writers Conference about a tested publication strategy: starting with small academic journals and reviews, sending out a bunch of submissions and “seeing what sticks.”
Once you have a modest publication history with smaller journals,…
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At the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, BookBaby president Brian Felsen interviewed Tom Lutz, author of Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America, and editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
In this clip, Tom talks about why he believes the novel is the most sophisticated embodiment of our philosophical, scientific, emotional, ethical, and religious concerns.
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