Category Archives: WWW General News

  Photo Credit: Deposit Photos The deadline is fast approaching to submit a proposal for the 2018 Women Writing the West Conference. Anyone interested in submitting a proposal has through February 20 to send in the quick paperwork to the program co-chairs, Jane Kirkpatrick and Gail Jenner. Have you considered the value you could bring to the conference withContinueContinue reading “Why should you think about proposing a workshop for the conference?”

By Sara Dahmen {blog coordinator} In light of the many wonderful suggestions from our membership about what kind of blog posts might be interesting, one question put out was the following: what is it like being a hybrid author – both publishing indie and traditionally at the same time – and how is it possibleContinueContinue reading “Straddling the Hybrid World”

It’s not too early to begin thinking about attending the 2018 Women Writing the West Conference Oct. 25-28 in Walla Walla, Washington. The conference will take place at the historic Marcus Whitman Hotel located downtown, just one block off Main Street. If you haven’t watched it yet, check out the conference video that offers aContinueContinue reading “Save the Date: WWW’s 2018 Conference in Walla Walla, Washington!”

This week, member Vicky Ramakka takes us down memory lane in this post recalling her experience on the 2017 WWW Tuscon conference’s nature walk.             This is a very late follow-up to the Tucson conference. (No one can accuse me of rushing into things, but I do have the excuse of traveling to Botswana inContinueContinue reading “Remembering the 2017 Conference one more time…”

One of our new WWW members, Cynthia Grady, will have a children’s book out on January 9th: Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind. Set in the 1940’s, Write to Me tackles the difficult subject of Executive Order 9066, when Japanese Americans were imprisoned in the desert. TheContinueContinue reading “New Release: WRITE TO ME, by WWW Member Cynthia Grady”

The other week, many authors saw the news about the change Goodreads is making to their Giveaway feature, and the publishing (both traditional and self) worlds had a mini explosion. In case you did happen to miss this tidbit in the news, the general idea is that Goodreads will now charge authors to do aContinueContinue reading “What’s Going on with Goodreads?”