PERSONAL SAFETY: Artists, authors, musicians, crafters…if you’re in a creative business you need to get the word out about yourself and your work. People need to associate you with your product. As a marketing and “branding” professional, I spend a lot of time giving people advice on how to get “out there.” But today I want to take a step […]
MWA-NY has a reading series at KGB bar in NYC (please ask if you’d like to read!) and we’re planning more in other areas as well. There’s also Noir at the Bar, which is not run by MWA but at which many MWA members read all over the country. And there are other opportunities for reading your work aloud at
Author Laura K. Curtis discusses what to do when you get stuck when the writing doesn’t flow.
The turnout for our January meeting on self-publishing was excellent and I hope everyone found the information useful. But one thing we didn’t really discuss is what self-publishing means in terms of a writing career. As writers, most of us rarely think beyond the book. We don’t like it. We want to think of ourselves as creatives, not business people.
An MWA-NY members since 2015, A.J. Sidransky is a long-time resident of Washington Heights, New York. He travels frequently to the Dominican Republic. His debut novel, Forgiving Maximo Rothman, was selected as a finalist for the Outstanding Debut Novel by National Jewish Book Awards. His second novel, Stealing a Summer’s Afternoon, was selected as a finalist for Best Second Novel by the
