March 18th: Bookstore Owners Panel Discussion

Save the Date, This is an Event You Won’t Want to Miss

No matter what kind of writing you do, you want to be in bookstores. But how do the buyers for those book stores decide what to carry? There are 100,000 new books published every year, that’s an enormous amount of competition for a limited amount of shelf space.
Did  you know that stores like Barnes and Noble charge a fee to be featured on a table, or even to have your book facing out on the shelf? Learn how Indie bookstore owners do it better at our March meeting. How do you get into the local authors shelf? What sorts of things are book buyers looking for? These questions and more will be addressed at our monthly meeting on March 18th at Preservation Park.
The Panel Discussion begins at 2:45, but come at noon to take advantage of our group discussions,and networking. Improve your craft at 12 and marketing at 1pm, and fill up on coffee, snacks and good conversation before our announcements at 2:30.

Get Marketing Support, Get Your Craft Questions Answered, and Network with Other Writers…

Be sure to arrive early to participate in the Craft and Marketing groups. These are interactive conversations where you can talk to other writers to resolve the issues in your writing and your writers career. Make the commitment to be join us every third Sunday; your writing career is important and you deserve this.

MEETING SCHEDULE

12:00–1:00 – Craft Support Group
1:00–2:00 – Marketing Group
2:00–2:30 – Break, Book Sale
2:30–2:45 – Announcements

Featured Event

~no featured author this month~
2:45–4:00 – Featured speaker panel with Bookstore Buyers
Meetings are $5 for members, $10 for non-members.

1204 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612

Our meetings are right off 980 in downtown Oakland, at beautiful Preservation Park. Just off 12th Street, naturally you can get there from the 12th St. BART station. Those with limited ability can use the parking lot off of MLK Way; otherwise there should be plenty of FREE parking within the park and on surrounding streets.

• Preservation_Park_Map (good for printing)
• This map has an arrow to our building
• Here’s another cute map
• Google Map