Gold Winners
What Lies Within was a Gold Winner in the 2016 Human Relations Indie Book Awards in the Self Reflection/Memoir category. The Spirit of Villarosa received honorable mention in this category.…
Success Stories
Members are encouraged to send news of their recent successes to editor@spawn.org.
The Spirit of Villarosa Wins Coveted Royal Dragonfly Book Award
The Spirit of Villarosa: A Father’s Extraordinary Adventures; A Son’s Challenge by Horace Dade Ashton, Marc Ashton, and WPN member Libby J. Atwater won first place in two Royal Dragonfly…
SPAWN Board Member Speaks at 805 Writers' Conference
Penny Sansevieri, WPN Board Member, best-selling author, NYU instructor, and CEO of Author Marketing Experts will teach her popular “Super Fans—The Secrets of Selling More Books” workshop at the 805…
Kathleen Kaiser Named “Publicist of the Year” by Book Publicists of Southern California
WPN president Kathleen Sexton Kaiser, president of Kathleen Kaiser & Associates, received notification that she has been named “Publicist of the Year” by the Book Publicists of Southern California (BPSC).…
John Fulford Releases Sixth Book
John Fulford releases his sixth book, My 60 Job Resume: How quitting sixty jobs in thirty years added up to an extraordinary life, a ‘must read’ for those thousands of…
The Spirit of Villarosa by Marc Ashton and Libby J. Atwater
Marc Ashton was kidnapped at gunpoint in his long-time home of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2001. The Spirit of Villarosa tells this story, but even more captivating is the interwoven tale…
Alice Rene Receives Independent Publisher Book Award
WPN member Alice Rene received word last week that her latest book, The Other Side of Him, won an Independent Publisher Book Awards‘ bronze medal in the fiction category. Nearly…
Introducing Two New Board Members
Penny C. Sansevieri, founder and CEO of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., is a best-selling author and internationally recognized book-marketing and media-relations expert. She is an adjunct professor teaching self-publishing for…
The popular Tea With Toni workshops offered for writers of fiction & narrative nonfiction (memoir).
Literary agent Toni Lopopolo will help you craft your manuscript into a marketable book. A former executive editor at Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, Toni knows what it takes to…
Learn English Spelling Rules
A YouTube channel has launched where viewers are taken through simple lessons extracted from The Complete Guide to English Spelling Rules by John Fulford, a retired English professor. For over…