Nancy Gerber will be presenting a workshop, “Writing to Heal: The Powers of Narrative Writing in Transforming Trauma to Resilience,” at a conference sponsored by the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis (ACAP), to be held at Caldwell College, July 29-July 31, 2012. Attendees can choose from more than 20 workshops, including sessions on humor as a mode of healing (Eva Silver), Stress Management Techniques (Mary Massaro), The Step Back Method (Dr. Patricia Bratt), and Helping Veterans to Heal (Annette Vaccaro).

The keynote speaker is former First Lady of New Jersey Mary Jo Codey, who will discuss “Journeys to Resilience.” For more information, visit www.trauma-studies.org or call 973-251-9312.

The Writing Matters event on publishing is tomorrow (Thursday) evening!

By many accounts, publishing has changed more in the last year than it did in the past 100. But the wisdom and talent accumulated during those years cannot be underestimated. Come learn why the major houses are more relevant today than ever.

Perhaps you’re a fan of great fiction, eager to discover one of the bestselling or debut novelists who will be on our panel. Or maybe you’re an emerging writer, looking to hear what a senior editor at a major house is looking for in a submission. Or a published author who would like to take your work to the next level of audience-building. Or perhaps just a student of this incredible age in publishing.

Whatever your interest, please join us at Watchung booksellers for a night of food, drink, great books, and conversation.

Panelists:

Greer Hendricks, senior editor at Simon & Schuster
Sarah Pekkanen, internationally bestselling author of THESE GIRLS
Randy Susan Meyers, bestselling author of THE MURDERER’S DAUGHTERS
Peter Golden, debut author of COMEBACK LOVE
Julie Schoerke, founder JKS Communications

Thursday May 10th at 7 o’clock pm
Watchung booksellers

For further information: (973) 744 7177

http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/writing-matters

May 14, 7pm – Watchung Booksellers, Montclair NJ

They’ve done Pitchapaloozas from Miami to Hollywood, Cape Cod to Santa Cruz. They’ve done workshops from Stanford University to the Texas Book Festival. And now they’re doing them together in a 2.5 hour, information-packed session. The workshop gives you the nuts & bolts to launch your book successfully, from platform, to pitch, to publication. Pitchapalooza is American Idol for books. Writers get one minute—and only one minute, to pitch their books! In the last month, three writers have gotten publishing deals as a result of participating in Pitchapalooza. The workshop lasts an hour. Pitchapalooza ninety minutes. Sign up soon, these fill up fast!

Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry are co-founders of The Book Doctors, a company dedicated to helping authors get their books published. They are also co-authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How To Write It, Sell It, and Market It… Successfully (Workman, 2010). Arielle Eckstut has been a literary agent for 20 years at The Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. She is also the author of seven books and the co-founder of the iconic brand, LittleMissMatched. David Henry Sterry is the best-selling author of 12 books, on a wide variety of subject including memoir, sports, YA fiction and reference.They have taught their workshop on how to get published everywhere from Stanford University to Smith College. They have appeared everywhere from The New York Times to NPR’s Morning Edition to USA Today.

PRICE OF ADMISSION: $75, plus the purchase of The Essential Guide To Getting Your Book Published.

New York Times article: http://tinyurl.com/3tkp4gl.

Pitchapalooza mini movie:http://tinyurl.com/3jr8zte.

Pitchapalooza on NBC: http://www.thebookdoctors.com/the-book-doctors-pitchapalooza-on-nbc-television

Barbara Hurley of Verona, founding president of the Association for Women in Communications–New Jersey Chapter (AWCNJ), will be honored at its fourth annual Recognition & Networking Breakfast. The chapter will also present the “Women Who Will” award to Kristina Lee Grandstaff of Roxbury, founder of a volunteer organization helping women to recover from domestic abuse, at the event on Friday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Olde Mill Inn, 225 Route 202, Basking Ridge, NJ.

In honor of its 15th anniversary, AWCNJ will present its Founder’s Award to Hurley, director of marketing and communications at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where she has served nearly 25 years in a variety of roles. Hurley helped establish AWCNJ in 1997 and served as its first president.

Take advantage of AWCNJ’s special anniversary pricing by registering for this event by June 3: $35 for members, $45 for non-members. After June 3 and at the door: $55 for all. Register online at http://awcnj.org. To register by mail, please send a check, made out to AWCNJ, to Leslie Cifelli, 11 Villa Pl., Nutley, NJ 07110.

The Association for Women in Communications-New Jersey Chapter, established in 1997, is an active, member-focused organization dedicated to professional development and the advancement of women across communications discipline

How do you get romantic with a Neanderthal woman?

            Is it cannibalism if you eat yourself?

            Does it matter if the souvenir you bring home from Africa is another human being?

            Find the answers in “My Date with Neanderthal Woman,” which won Dzanc Books’ first short-story collection prize. Reading at Montclair Public Library, 7:00, Wednesday, May 9.

            The author, David Galef, has published over a dozen books and is the director of the creative writing program at Montclair State University, as well as The Fiction Workshop columnist for The Writer and a humor columnist for Inside Higher Ed.

Book Launch and Reception for Carole De Santis, editor at Viking Penguin and author of the newly released book by Houghton Mifflin, The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.

Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman’s coming of age during and after France’s Second Empire (1860–1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval.

Saturday, April 21st, 5pm
Watchung Booksellers
54 Fairfield St.
Montclair NJ 07042
973-744-7177

Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield St., Watchung Plaza, will host a “meet and greet” reception Saturday, May 19, noon to 2 p.m., featuring Clifton author Michael C. Gabriele. Gabriele will present his book “The Golden Age of Bicycle Racing in New Jersey.”

The reception at Watchung Booksellers will coincide with the 10th annual Tour de Montclair bike festival, which runs Sunday, May 20, in Brookdale Park.

Gabriele’s book, published by The History Press, Charleston, SC (Web site: www.historypress.net), is a comprehensive, 30,000-word narrative, with 70 vintage photographs, on the Garden State’s colorful, 130-year cycling heritage. The book documents New Jersey’s lost history as a hub for bicycle racing, re-establishing its claim as the “cradle of cycling” for the United States.

Self-publishing has never been easier (or more respectable), small presses abound, yet the gold standard for many writers is still the Big 6 publishing deal. What does publishing with a Big 6 house get you that no other platform can?

On Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 7:00 pm a very special Writing Matters panel will take place at Watchung booksellers, seeking answers to this question. Our panelists include:

• Greer Hendricks, Vice President and Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster
• Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling author of These Girls, The Opposite of Me, & Skipping a Beat
• Randy Susan Meyers, bestselling author of The Murderer’s Daughters
• Peter Golden, debut author of Comeback Love
• Julie Schoerke, president and founder of JKS Communications, an independent publicity firm

The panelists will explore such topics as:

• What editors at the major houses are looking for today
• What it’s like to publish with a major versus a smaller press or on your own
• What to do after the offer so that your book stands its best chance of success

Whether you’re an

• emerging writer
• published author who would like to reach a wider audience
• student of these tremendous publishing times
• fan of great fiction

This night will hold something for you. Join us for some time spent with almost all that is good in life: books, food, wine, and rousing conversation!

For further information please call Watchung booksellers (973) 744 7177

http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/writing-matters

The International Women’s Writing Guild is thrilled to present the 63rd Annual Spring Big Apple Conference, “ReNEW the Magic,” a two-day event featuring writing workshops and the opportunity to pitch one-on-one to NYC agents.

Our conference takes place April 14-15 at the historic National Arts Club at 15 Gramercy Park South (East 20th Street, just east of Park Ave.), New York City.

Visit http://iwwg.org/63rd-big-apple-conference to register.

Three prominent writers will discuss all things Yankees at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center on Wednesday, April 18 from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Jane Leavy, best-selling author of books on Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle, Will Leitch of New York Magazine, and Dan Barry of the New York Times each will give a fresh look at baseball’s most enduring franchise.

Each contributed to a timeless collection of original essays in the upcoming book “Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team.

The book was edited by former Sports Illustrated executive editor Rob Fleder. For more info (973) 655-6891.