As you know if you read/watched Part I of our interview, author Nathan Bransford came to the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto for lunch last week, and I videotaped our interview. This half is really more of a conversation between Nathan and some of the writers at the Grotto, including Po Bronson, Constance Hale, and Caroline […]
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April 27th, 2011 | Tags: Books, Caroline Paul, Costance Hale, E-Books, Gerard Jones, Jacob Wonderbar, Laura Goode, Meghan Ward, Nathan Bransford, Po Bronson, Publishing, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, Self-Publishing, SF Grotto, Social Media, The Grotto, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) I had the pleasure of meeting Nathan Bransford in person last week and interviewing him on video when he came to lunch at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, where I write. Here is the first part of the interview with the (edited) transcription below, so you can follow along to see who is asking the […] April 26th, 2011 | Tags: authors, Blogger, blogging, Books, Caroline Paul, childrens books, CNET, Constance Hale, Gerard Jones, Grotto, Helena Echlin, interview, Jacob Wonderbar, Laura Goode, Meghan Ward, Nathan Bransford, Po Bronson, Publishing, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, Social Media, Writerland, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Today we have an interview with Nina LaCour, author of the YA novel Hold Still, which is a fantastic book (I read it last week). Writerland: When did you first know you wanted to be a writer? NL: I’ve always been in love with stories—listening to people tell them, reading them, writing them. My […] April 5th, 2011 | Tags: authors, Books, fiction, Hold Still, interviews, Kristen Tracy, Meghan Ward, Nina LaCour, novels, Publishing, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, suicide, WriteTeen, YA | Category: Author Interviews, Craft of Writing, Publishing, Writing | 24 comments - (Comments are closed) Last Friday, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, author of A Tiger in the Kitchen, came to the Grotto for lunch. I had the privilege of interviewing her both on video and in person. Here is the in-person interview. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York City-based food and fashion writer whose work has appeared in the Wall […] March 15th, 2011 | Tags: A Tiger in the Kitchen, Chery Lu-Lien Tan, Cheryl Tan, cooking, culinary memoir, Memoir, Social Media, Tiger Mother | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media | 34 comments - (Comments are closed) This week and next I’ll be posting a series of videos from the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Open House, which took place Thursday, September 16. Oscar Villalon, former book review editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and former publisher at McSweeney’s (the inside joke in the video will now make sense) emceed the event. The […] September 21st, 2010 | Tags: authors, Kate Crouch, Men and Dogs, Oscar Villalon, readings, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, writers | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Reading, Videos | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Josh McHugh is the president of Attention Span Media, the social media studio behind two of the most-watched web series of all time, Dorm Life and Simon Fuller’s If I Can Dream. Josh’s experience at the intersection of technology, media and business began 14 years ago at Forbes Magazine, where he chronicled the brainiacs […] July 13th, 2010 | Tags: Attention Span Media, Dorm Life, If I Can Dream, Josh McHugh, Wired Magazine | Category: Author Interviews, Social Media | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) Kristen Tracy describes herself as a “poet who also writes young adult and middle-grade novels,” but that’s an understatement. Her first two teen novels, Lost It and Crimes of the Sarahs, were published by Simon & Schuster, and she has three more forthcoming from Disney-Hyperion, including A Field Guide For Heartbreakers, due out June […] May 19th, 2010 | Tags: Editing, fiction, Kristen Tracy, Publishing, Social Media, Writing, YA | Category: Author Interviews, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Alicia Dunams is author of the Amazon bestseller Goal Digger. She is a dynamic speaker, book packager, and business coach. In 2007, you self-published a book titled, Goal Digger: Lessons Learned From the Rich Men I Dated. Why did you choose to self-publish? I shopped it around to literary agents and was […] February 19th, 2010 | Tags: Alicia Dunams, author platform, E-Books, Editing, Goal Digger, personal brand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) I’m having technical difficulties with iMovie, so please excuse the weird double audio clips in this video. And while I’m trying to figure out how that happened, enjoy a mini tour of the Grotto, a co-op of full-time writers who share an office space near South Park in San Francisco. San Francisco Writers’ Grotto […] December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Bay Area writers, Editing, Grotto, Publishing, San Francisco Writers, Writing | Category: Author Interviews, Editing, Publishing, Videos, Writing | Comments are closed Jacquelyn Wheeler is the author of Rising Shadow, a YA sci-fi novel. How long did it take you to write Rising Shadow? It took me about nine weeks to write the first draft and then about nine months to edit it, although during that time I was also working on books two and […] December 11th, 2009 | Tags: Editing, Jacquelyn Wheeler, Rising Shadow, Self-Publishing, The Soterians, Writing, YA, Young Adult | Category: Author Interviews, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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