Far North Editors Meeting
Zoom CA, United StatesThe Far North Editors meet every second Wednesday from 11:15am to 12:45pm. Traditionally they meet in Mount Vernon, WA, but currently their meetings are entirely online.
The Far North Editors meet every second Wednesday from 11:15am to 12:45pm. Traditionally they meet in Mount Vernon, WA, but currently their meetings are entirely online.
Nurturing great relationships with authors is essential for long-term retention and the profitability of your business. Ensuring authors receive accurate royalties in a timely fashion is a key element. In this webinar industry veteran David Marlin will delve into practical strategies and actionable tips, empowering publishers to build lasting relationships based on mutual respect, trust, and success. […]
In Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier! historian James Harris tells the dramatic story of survival for this Southern California icon—fighting Mother Nature, politics and changing times. This rich history makes Santa Monica Pier more than a landmark, more than a pleasure pier or a must see on the West Coast. For a […]
A Lunch ‘N Learn with Emily Thiroux Threatt and Allen Klein After the death of their spouses, both Emily and Allen discovered that writing about their love and their experiences provided them with the most comfort. Wanting to share with the world what helped them most, Emily wrote Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief, and Allen wrote The […]
Join us for our "Editors Helping Editors" meeting. Bring your problems, big and small, as well as your thinking caps. We'll work together to solve event-goers quandaries and questions, which could range from common questions like how to find clients in a particular field (say academic editing) to more situation-specific issues like why a particular […]
Join Bay Area Women in Publishing (BAWiP) and Publishing Professionals Network (PPN) and celebrate the start of summer with your publishing colleagues! Temescal Brewing, 4115 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609 Co-hosted by BAWiP and PPN Outside seating One block from MacArthur BART station Turn off Zoom, get outside, and enjoy a beer or soda with some of your local […]
In Stories Are Weapons, Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats—the essential tool kit for psychological warfare—have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. America’s secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling. Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, psyops have found their way into the hands […]
Litquake and KQED Live present a night with SongWriter, a podcast that turns stories into songs (featured guests have included Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Roxane Gay, and Craig Finn of The Hold Steady). In this special live recording event, bestselling author Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief, The Library Book) will share […]
Join us for Nature as Muse, a panel discussion presented by The American Bookbinders Museum with panalists Elizabeth Curren, Sara Press (Deeply Game Publications), and Rebecca Chamlee (Pie in the Sky Press). We’ll discuss nature’s influence in practice and as model on Saturday, June 15th at 11:00 am PST. Whether its using organic materials, or […]
Our annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses goes online with an encore of our 2020 Bloomsday film featuring a montage of readings, performance, song and celebration. We have guest artists from the Bay Area, New York and Ireland to bring selections from Joyce’s epic novel to life with interpretations traditional, contemporary and experimental! Click to watch below.
This afternoon chat centers people who work as editors and are living with disability, chronic illness, and/or neurodivergence. It is open to everyone. The idea was partly inspired by an active peer group currently hosted by the Society of Authors (https://www.societyofauthors.org/Groups/Authors-Disabilities-Illnesses-Network). Group agreements that will be open for discussion at the start of the chat: […]
Join us on Monday, June 17th from 6-7 pm PT for WILD Voices “AI-Able” featuring Autodesk's Capra J'neva. J'neva will help attendees break inside the black box of AI, exploring how to craft great experiences with AI. Learn which problems are suitable for AI solutions, how to gather and prepare data transparently, and design strategies […]