{"id":26604,"date":"2017-03-05T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=26604"},"modified":"2017-03-05T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:01:02","slug":"womens-national-book-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/womens-national-book-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s National Book Association &#8212; A Fun Place to Meet Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21866\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/03\/05\/womens-national-book-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/03\/05\/womens-national-book-association\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21866\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2407-2-580x387-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"Author event at A Great Good Place for Books for Barbara Falconer Newhall's &quot;Wrestlng with God&quot; book, May 13, 2015. k, Barbara is a member of Women's National Book Association Jon Newhall foto\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author event at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, Calif., for Barbara Falconer Newhall&#8217;s &#8220;Wrestlng with God&#8221; book &#8212; the kind of event recommended by the Women&#8217;s National Book Association. Photo by Jon Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco chapter of the Women&#8217;s National Book Association\u00a0has published a very nice <a href=\"http:\/\/wnba-sfchapter.org\/featured-member-interview-barbara-flaconer-newhall\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with me<\/a> in their spring newsletter. It lays out my latest thoughts on writing, publishing and promoting a book &#8212; including how I might just maybe <!--more-->promote &#8220;Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith&#8221; a little differently if I were just starting out today.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting organization, btw. Very lively. It&#8217;s got a pitch fest coming up on March 25 in San Francisco, for example. Also a Women, Wine and Books Mixer in SF on March 16.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but one of the things I enjoy most about the writing life is talking to other writers about writing &#8212; especially the craft of it. So, if you are looking for fellow writers in the Bay Are, <a href=\"http:\/\/wnba-sfchapter.org\/membership\/benefits-of-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\">maybe you&#8217;d like to join<\/a> . . . .<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/wnba-sfchapter.org\/featured-member-interview-barbara-flaconer-newhall\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/03\/05\/womens-national-book-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/03\/05\/womens-national-book-association\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25676 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ms-IMG_7918-3-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Falconer Newhall at her home office desk getting ready to do final edits on her book, &quot;Wrestling with God.&quot; Photo by Barbara Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Women&#8217;s National Book Association &#8212; a fun organization for writers &#8212; published a very nice interview with me. <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/03\/05\/womens-national-book-association\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52],"tags":[488,197,1885,53,480,575],"class_list":["post-26604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","category-the-writing-room","tag-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-room-2","tag-womens-national-book-association","tag-wrestling-with-god","tag-writers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}