Unique Craft-and-Market Workshops and Conferences
   For Novel Planners, Beginners, and VeteransPhone: 1-800-250-8290
Fisherman's Wharf WC Faculty


SAM BARRY is the author of the forthcoming book HOW TO PLAY. With his partner, author Kathi Kamen Goldmark, he writes a monthly column in BookPage "The Author Enablers." Sam is a marketing and promotions manager at HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins. He is also a musician and music teacher who tours with the all-author rock band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, and is a regular performer on the national radio show West Coast Live.


DAVID COLE has spent almost 30 years in book publishing with stints in editing, production, publicity, marketing, and management. His company, Bay Tree Publishing, focuses on nonfiction works in the areas of business, personal finance, psychology, health, and current affairs. He is the author of three nonfiction books, including The Complete Guide to Book Marketing. The Founder and first President of the San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival, he also served as an instructor in the University of California Extension certificate program in publishing. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Independent Book Publishers Association and the Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association.


ELISE CAPRON is an agent for the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency--widely regarded as the best on the west coast. Their authors include Amy Tan, Kate White, Janell Cannon, and many more. Elise is list-building and looking for new manuscripts. She is Sandra's assistant and specializes in literary and women's fiction. An interview can be [found here].


KATHI KAMEN GOLDMARK is the author of AND MY SHOES KEEP WALKING BACK TO YOU, a novel; co-author of THE GREAT ROCK AND ROLL JOKE BOOK, and MID-LIFE CONFIDENTIAL: THE ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS TOUR AMERICA WITH THREE CHORDS AND AN ATTITUDE. She has worked in publishing as a media escort and publicist, and with Sam Barry, she writes a monthly aspiring-writer-advice column in BookPage called "The Author Enablers." Kathis is a 2007 San Francisco Library Laureate as well as winner of the 2008 Women's National Book Association award. She is also the founder and a member of the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders, and president and chief janitor of "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records, Author Liaison for high-profile literary events, and producer of the radio show West Coast Live.


SCOTT HOFFMAN's fiction list is about half literary, and half commercial. If your project doesn't fit one of the "established" categories, he might be your guy. He is always on the look out beautifully-written literary fiction, dark novels, SF and Fantasy, as well as heartbreaking memoirs. More about Scott can be found here.


MICHAEL LARSEN, together with Elizabeth Pomada, founded the first literary agency in San Francisco in 1972, and since that time they have helped hundreds of authors to achieve successful publication of their books. Recent manuscripts represented and sold to Pantheon, Warner, Berkley, and Tor. Two novel ms were recently selected from Algonkian workshops ... [more]


ISABELLA MICHON is a former TV and radio producer with more than 25 years of publicity and promotion experience. She has worked with many bestselling and award-winning authors including Deepak Chopra, Clive Barker, Day in the Life series co-creator David Cohen, and Robert Thurman, who Time named as "one of the 25 most influential people". Isabella's bookings include USA Today, NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, The Associated Press, NPR, CNN, The Tom Snyder Show, and the front page of The Wall Street Journal.


MICHAEL NEFF, the chief workshop leader, is the editor and founder of Del Sol Press and the "Paris Review of the Internet," Del Sol Review. He also publishes several acclaimed literary journals including In Posse Review, Double Room, and The Potomac. His own work has appeared in such classic literary publications as The Literary Review, North American Review, Mudlark, Quarterly West, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Conjunctions, and American Way Magazine. His novel, YEAR OF THE RHINOCEROS, will be forthcoming from Red Hen press in 2008 ... [more].


ELIZABETH POMADA, together with Michael Larsen, founded the first literary agency in San Francisco in 1972, and since that time they have helped hundreds of authors to achieve successful publication of their books. Recent manuscripts represented and sold to Pantheon, Warner, Berkley, and Tor. Two novel ms were recently selected from Algonkian workshops ... [more]



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