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Bay Area writer, actor, traveler, and activist Tanya Shaffer launched her new website last month. Highlights include:

• Audio clips from “Sid Arthur,” Tanya’s musical-in-progress with composer Vienna Teng
• Video clips from her solo show “Let My Enemy Live Long!”
• Stories and essays available for free online reading
• A page for each of Tanya’s major original works, including a brief description, press clips, and photo gallery.

Dick Jordan’s Contra Costa Times article about the Bay Model is a good example of seeing local hidden gems as attractions worthy of travel articles. And check out his Blogspot website, Tales Told from the Road, which does a great job of incorporating Facebook, Twitter, a photo slideshow, and an RSS feed. Nice work, Dick.

Congratulations to Marsha Black, on her new website, The Accidental Photographer, with “tips written for people who carry a point and shoot camera but don’t have a clue about how to get good photographs out of it.” Marsha’s book with the same title will be coming out soon.

While you are on Marsha’s blog page, visit the store, click on the Café Press APOW link and take a look at the fun photo gifts and mementos she and fellow photographers are selling through the APOW store at Café Press.

Thanks to Laurie Weed for this link to local photographer Jak Wonderly’s website. Check it out for some beautiful animal shots, as well as to see the SmugMug photo gallery hosting format.

Here’s a link to Bob Cooper’s handsome new website, designed by Likoma, and with an author photo by Christine Krieg Photography. Nice use of a website-as-resume.

Congratulations to Laura Read on launching her new website, ReadWriteShoot. Click on over and have a look; it’s beautiful!

Sidra Stich’s Art-SITES “is a unique series combining art books and travel guides. User-friendly, each handbook is filled with in-depth commentaries and nitty-gritty details on art museums, top-notch galleries, pioneering exhibition spaces, cutting-edge contemporary architecture, film centers, vanguard public art, sculpture parks, art fairs, festivals and bookshops. Far beyond the usual coverage of museums and monuments, these handbooks offer an excitingly different way to explore cities and discover the hinterlands.

October 21, 2008
7:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

From ASJA: Want to spend an all-expense paid year at Stanford or Harvard studying topics that will deepen your book or big article research? Looking for ways to fund your most ambitious writing projects?

Don’t miss an exceptional panel on October 21st, all about grants and fellowships for writers, presented by the Northern California chapter of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). This event will feature:

• Representatives from Stanford’s Knight Fellowship and Harvard’s Nieman Foundation discussing the purpose of the awards and how to apply.
• Staff from the San Francisco Foundation Center showing us how to search the Center’s nationwide database for grants to individuals.

“Dear Friends, I am really excited to announce that Pology has launched a new travel-centric social network that allows users to share their travel photos, blog about their experiences, trade tips in discussion forums, and connect with other people living (and traveling) in their areas.

“Go to http://pology.ning.com or just go to pology.com and click on the ‘community’ tab on the main menu. Our social network is brand new, so it might take a little time before we have enough users for the social aspects to reach critical mass, but you can help to get everything started by signing up (it’s free), poking around the site,creating a profile, sharing your travel stories/pictures, starting discussion topics, and telling your friends!

Scott Fisher’s other blog, Fresh and Local, promises to be good reading; I’m going to keep an eye on it. The site will include “a directory of local farms, farmers’ markets, wineries, artisanal bakeries and cheese makers, and the like, as well as restaurants.” Scott is a knowledgeable food and wine critic; it was my great pleasure to dine with him recently in San Francisco.

Track Whitney Vosberg and Heather’s travels on Vosmer Voyages.

Laralynn Weiss Rapoza is a writer, blogger, photographer, and now, a mom.

Thanks to Connie Hale for forwarding this link to Barry Eisler’s website. “A colleague pointed out this Web site as an example of a writer’s site that gets lots of traffic.” This guy is a serious marketer!

Janet Grace Riehl, writer, speaker, poet, blogger. Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century.

The Itinerants: Bay Area writers who roam the globe. This is my very wonderful writers group. “The Itinerants is a group of journalists in Northern California who focus largely on adventures and travel. Our stories have appeared in such magazines as National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Gourmet, and Islands. We are frequent contributors to the travel sections of the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, and Honolulu Advertiser.” If you don’t already belong to a writers/group, think about joining one, or starting one of your own. If you want to know more about mine, click on in.

Judy Zimola is a travel writer and blogger who also writes about music and culture (or lack thereof, and I’m thinking specifically about Mean Vic here).

Alison Anderson is a traveler, writer, and now a blogger. Her published novels are Hidden Latitudes and Darwin’s Wink.

Kalpana Mohan writes on topics ranging from travel and the business of technology to parenting and ethnic issues in her Indian community — in national and regional publications like Better Homes and Gardens, Woman’s Day, Business Week Online, FamilyFun Magazine and the San Jose Mercury News.

Check out Cheryl McLaughlin’s new blog, From Her Court, about coaching, leadership, and life. Writers will especially appreciate the story about Janice Cooke Newman’s success in Cheryl’s entry about 60 Ways to Lead and Make a Difference #3: The Ripple Effect.

Cheryl McLaughlin, Ph.D., USPTA, is a performance scientist and a nationally recognized expert on women’s health and high performance. Cheryl holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and organizational development from Purdue University, and a doctorate in Counseling and Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona. She is the CEO of McLaughlin Human Performance Institute and lives in Danville, California.

I love Laura Read’s writing, and her Placer County: Back in the Pink — How one woman helped to revive profitability on the family farm is a great example of finding a local story. From the September 3 San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. By the way, I tasted the nectarines Laura wrote about, and she’s right — they’re unbelievably delicious.

Laura’s website, Read Write Shoot is here.

Inger Hogstrom is a blogger and a photographer specializing in nature and travel subjects.

Julia Weiler writes, edits, and blogs at Julia’s Whirled View.

Susan Alcorn publishes an e-newsletter for the hiking/backpacking community, which is available on request from backpack45@yahoo.com

Janis Cooke Newman and Constance Matthiessen are offering an editing service called Line by Line. “Line by Line is a literary editing service that can help you take your work from good to great. Whether you want to know how to write a magazine query that sells, hone your travel story, or find out if your memoir slows in the middle, we can help. Line by line was founded by two writers with years of experience and publishing success: Janis Cooke Newman, author of a memoir, a novel, and frequent contributor to the LA Times and SF Chronicle travel sections; and Connie Matthiessen, journalist and essayist, contributor to Mother Jones, San Francisco magazine, and the latest Mothers Who Think anthology.”

Diane LeBow is a travel writer, photo-journalist, Board member Bay Area Travel Writers. She specializes in off-the-beaten-track areas like Afghanistan and Libya, as well as erotic travel tales.

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