by editor | Apr 27, 2020 | Articles, Author Interviews, Written
Martina Reaves grew up in a Navy family and lived in thirty-four places before she finally settled in her current home in Berkeley with her wife, Tanya, and their son, Cooper, who now lives in Oakland. She considers living in one place for over thirty years a major...
by editor | Apr 24, 2020 | Articles, News + Features
Since its inception in 2015, The Bay Area Book Festival has built a reputation for the quality of its literary programs, its international scope, and its commitment to informed public discourse, empathy, and open-mindedness. Although we’ve had to cancel our...
by editor | Apr 24, 2020 | Articles, Author Interviews
Born in Japan and raised in Hong Kong before moving to the United States, Chinese American businessman Robert Wang has a firsthand perspective of both Chinese and Western cultures and their entwined history. He first learned as a school-boy how the Opium Wars formed...
by editor | Apr 21, 2020 | Articles, Author Events
Resilience: “The ability of a substance or object to spring back easily into shape.” The Oxford English Dictionary could have been describing this year’s Bay Area Book Festival because that’s exactly what they’re doing. Although the beloved festival only announced its...
by editor | Apr 7, 2020 | Articles, Author Interviews
Reviewer, Kristi Elizabeth, interviews Kathy Tong, author of Not-Quite-Supermodel. Meet Kathy Tong, Author and (not-quite-super-) Model Kathy was discovered at age the ripe old age of 20 behind the seafood counter at Canada Safeway. That’s right, she was slicing fish....
by editor | Feb 16, 2020 | Book Publishing
You’re confident your collection of short stories is going to be a bestseller. It’s going to be the next literary sensation. Now, all you have to do is get it published. Should you hire a literary agent? Do you even know how to get a literary agent? Should you...
