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Founded in 2003 by Nancy K. Miller and Kamy Wicoff, The New York Salon of Women Writers brings women writers of all genres, generations and backgrounds together in a common space for mutual support.
Please list any books you have written, or anthologies you have contributed to, and any scripts or plays you have authored, so that we may feature them in our bookstore and on the main page.
Currently writing "Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV" (forthcoming from Seal Press in 2010)
I have contributed to various anthologies - I'll update later.
What media outlets, if any, do you currently write for?
WIMN's Voices, the group blog on women and the media, is my online home.
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture is the print outlet to which I most frequently contribute, but I also freelance for a variety of alternative and corporate outlets (Ms., Chicago Tribune, Newsday, AlterNet, others).
Which of the following genres best describe your work?
Nonfiction, Journalism, Blog Posts
Do you review books, television or film?
Often television, sometimes books and film
Do you offer services to other writers? Please describe.
I edit guest blog posts for WIMN's Voices, the group blog of Women In Media & News.
As WIMN's executive director, I facilitate media trainings for women.
Also in my capacity as WIMN's E.D., I manage our POWER (Perspectives Of Women Expand Reporting) Sources Project, which connects diverse women experts with journalists seeking sources for their stories.
Are you currently part of a writers' group or a writers' salon?
No
Do you have any professional associations?
WAM, JAWS, etc.
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Hi there -- just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally (or at least virtually) to our first-ever She Writes Chicago meetup, celebrating our first-anniversary! We are so grateful to the event's organizer, Eileen O'Halloran, for taking a risk and stepping up to host. I hope you will support her and bring yourself and other women who write (no need for them to be members) to the Chicago gathering. At the meetup writers will take part in the She Writes "Book Communion," where attendees arrive with one book, their own or another She Writers', new or gently used, and leave with another book as a meaningfully way to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle and making a wish for our upcoming writing year -- along with She Writers gathering in 16 cities around the country. I hope you will be part of this historic (well, at least kind of cool) occasion, and RSVP now to Eileen here.
Re: your e-mail about adding your blog to the Group Member Index, there's instructions at the top of the group page for that:
Please check out our Group Member Blog Index! To be added to the index, please post in the New Members: Visit Here First! discussion thread (you may need to "view all" in order to find it) and you'll be added within 24 hours.
Welcome to She Writes! You were at WAM this year, yes?
Thanks for letting me know about this resource, which helps me make up for my shameful lack of Facebooking and Twittering! I look forward to seeing your book on reality TV and promoting the hell out of it in Chicago.
I'm always delighted, when at the close of reading my latest book, I can flip to the back and see what the author looks like. Sometimes I'm surprised, and sometimes the author looks similar to the way I envisioned them. But it's when there's no phot…
Since I write more of the romantic type of novels, looks are important for my characters. I come up with their look various ways. I envision what they should look like, and write their attributes down, or I use pictures of people I clip from magazin…
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Re: your e-mail about adding your blog to the Group Member Index, there's instructions at the top of the group page for that:
Please check out our Group Member Blog Index! To be added to the index, please post in the New Members: Visit Here First! discussion thread (you may need to "view all" in order to find it) and you'll be added within 24 hours.
Welcome to She Writes! You were at WAM this year, yes?
Rock on,
Jessica