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…
Success Stories
Members are encouraged to send news of their recent successes to editor@spawn.org.
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…
Patricia Fry
Patricia Fry’s Klepto Cat was in the Wall Street Journal on the front page March 1, 2016, in an article about talking versus silent cats in fiction. The Cat Channel…
April 23 is World Book and Copyright Day
During the month of April, WPN member Rhonda Rees is staging a PSA campaign to alert authors and publishers to check their books to correspond with World Book and Copyright…
SPAWN to the Rescue
Hello ~ I am a member of WPN. I am currently developing an illustrated story rhyme with music. I have written the story rhyme and the musical accompaniment, which is…
Barbara Florio Graham
Barbara Florio Graham has an article in the January issue of Freelance Writer’s Report. This excellent monthly newsletter contains advice from paid contributors along with many pages of markets you…
Bobbie Christmas
Bobbie Christmas, The Book Doctor, is thrilled to announce that the updated and expanded second edition of Write In Style, her book on how to use any computer to improve…