Get the most out of your conference experience! Join us for a pre-conference Zoom session with Linda Ruggeri from The Networking Studio.We know that attending a conference can be exciting, energizing—and yes, a little overwhelming. But a bit of smart planning can help you show up prepared to make meaningful connections and get real value from […]
Featuring Keynote Speaker Jane Friedman
The PPN Monthly Meetup was started in 2019 as an informal gathering of publishing professionals at a rotating location. With the onset of the pandemic, the event was moved online to become the Virtual Monthly Meetup. The Monthly Meetup has become a regular appointment for individuals who bring their insights, experience, and wit to friendly […]
Join our in-person happy-hour meetup! Join Publishing Professionals Network (PPN), Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), and Bay Area Women in Publishing, and celebrate these springlike days with your publishing colleagues! Drake’s Dealership, 2325 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612 Outside seating Walkable (5 blocks) from 19th Street BART station Pretzels on us! Turn off Zoom, get outside, and enjoy […]
The first in PPN’s new summerlong Best Practices series, part of our professional development programming, will feature Neal Maillet of Berrett-Koehler, focusing on acquisitions. The Best Practices series focuses on multiple areas of book publishing—acquisitions, editorial, marketing, and more. Each session covers the most effective ways to work within and outside your department, as well as with external stakeholders, such as […]
The PPN Monthly Meetup was started in 2019 as an informal gathering of publishing professionals at a rotating location. With the onset of the pandemic, the event was moved online to become the Virtual Monthly Meetup. The Monthly Meetup has become a regular appointment for individuals who bring their insights, experience, and wit to friendly […]
Join our in-person happy-hour meetup! Join Publishing Professionals Network (PPN), Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), and Bay Area Women in Publishing, and celebrate these springlike days with your publishing colleagues! Drake’s Dealership, 2325 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612 Outside seating Walkable (5 blocks) from 19th Street BART station Pretzels on us! Turn off Zoom, get outside, and enjoy […]
Best Practices: Editing, Design, and Production with David Zielonka Publishing pros know that editorial, design, and production are the heart of the publishing process. Each segment is vital for turning an idea into a book. Whether it’s dealing with the language, layout, or look of a project, each step has its own internal logic and rules […]
The PPN Monthly Meetup was started in 2019 as an informal gathering of publishing professionals at a rotating location. With the onset of the pandemic, the event was moved online to become the Virtual Monthly Meetup. The Monthly Meetup has become a regular appointment for individuals who bring their insights, experience, and wit to friendly […]
What’s a literary agent do, anyway? And now that self-publishing is viable, is an agent even necessary? Bay Area literary agent Mike Larsen will give the scoop on all this and more in this presentation hosted by the San Francisco Bay Area Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) chapter. Mike and his late wife, Elizabeth Pomada, escaped […]
Join PPN’s monthly happy-hour Meetup tomorrow at Drake’s Dealership, located in Oakland’s festive uptown neighborhood, a mere five blocks from the 19th Street BART station, where you’ll meet your publishing industry peeps! Turn off Zoom, relax outside, and enjoy a beer or soda with some of your local publishing peeps. It’s the perfect opportunity to […]
The PPN Monthly Meetup was started in 2019 as an informal gathering of publishing professionals at a rotating location. With the onset of the pandemic, the event was moved online to become the Virtual Monthly Meetup. The Monthly Meetup has become a regular appointment for individuals who bring their insights, experience, and wit to friendly […]