SFCB is excited to host author Bruce Holsinger as he shares stories from his latest book "On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age".
This engaging workshop is for authors across genres—from children’s storytellers to non-fiction experts and fiction writers. This session focuses on leveraging the power of email marketing to increase your visibility and drive book sales. You’ll learn how to craft compelling lead magnets that capture interest, as well as strategies for effective collaboration that can open […]
Learn the basics of Python in the free MacOS application DrawBot. Create and animate vector art, set type with code, and save your sketches as vector and raster images, videos, and .pdfs. As designers, we use tools to help complete our work but often don't consider how these tools can box us into certain processes […]
Meet the artist! Pietro Accardi will demonstrate and discuss marbling at a special reception celebrating The Magic of Marbling, Unique by Design. This special exhibit explores the patterns, history and magic of marbling. Celebrated marbler, Pietro Accardi, will share his passion for marbling, his love of teaching, and his comprehensive knowledge of the art form with […]
AGENDA DETAILS Visit the Boot Camp website for full details and updates on the agenda. REGISTER TODAY Are you in your first 5 years of working in the Book Publishing industry? Join us on Monday, September 23 for this Virtual Boot Camp. Learn about different areas in publishing, plus network with your peers and the PubWest circle of […]
The fields of book history and bibliography are having a cultural reckoning. The Women in Book History Bibliography (womensbookhistory.org) has acted as an impetus for championing the “lost” histories of women in the book trades and as a tool for arguing for further recovery work. Still in progress, the bibliography currently consists of over 2000 […]
Want to get results with more powerful, persuasive content and communications? This fun, hands-on workshop will help you streamline the writing process, steer clear of common pitfalls, drive traffic and sales, and meet deadlines and performance targets. You’ll learn how to Organize to save time and highlight main points Use fewer words to communicate your […]
GET A BOOK DEAL WITH A PUBLISHER There’s the book you want to write and the book a publisher – and readers – will buy: Are they the same book? Literary agents receive 1500+ manuscripts a month. Publishers receive 10,000+ manuscripts a year. If you want to get a publishing deal and more readers, you’ve got to know what publishers (and readers) […]
Are you a technical editor, or interested in learning about technical editing? Join a friendly discussion of editing in technical fields. This event is free to attend and open to all editors.
These events are FREE and include author meet and greets, workshops, book readings, dance performances, arts, and craft activities, and exhibitors. Estos eventos son GRATIS y incluyen firma de libros por autores, talleres, lectura de libros, danzas, arte y manualidades, y exhibidores.
At the time of Herman Melville’s death, in 1891, his novels had fallen into obscurity. Moby-Dick, his masterwork published in 1851, was out of print and unread. But in the 1920s, critical reassessments led to a “Melville revival.” This lecture surveys some of the famous and less well-known illustrated editions, artists’ books, and other visual interpretations, […]
Join SFCB in celebrating our Fall 2024 exhibition "David King Publications 1977 - 2019"