Hello, BATW Members – You’re receiving this email version of the September, 2009, BATW e-zine/newsletter because you subscribed to monthly updates from the BATW website.  However, this email only contains 10 posts (including this one), and there are over 30 new posts this month so to find...

The Pier 39 August program was spectacular. Thanks go to Dee Rogers and Beth Zare for organizing it, to Pier 39 for hosting us, and to our four superb photographers, Morton Beebe, John Montgomery, David Sanger, and Carol Stevenson for sharing their knowledge, experience, and gorgeous images with us....

The deadline for BATW Best and Planet Earth submissions has been extended until September 15, 2009. If you have not already sent in your entries, please do so NOW! Thank you, Karen Misuraca Contest Chairperson kmworld@vom.com New Deadline: Sept. 15 BATW Best 2010 Planet Earth 2010

Thinking Out of the Box: Associates, Writers & Photographers Looking for Ways to Market in Today’s Economy the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco (photo courtesy of the Westin St. Francis) October 17, 2009 Westin St. Francis San Francisco Come join us for what’s sure to be an exciting...

“Case Studies: Travel Writers’ Websites” at the San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch Sept. 19 at 10 a.m In the San Francisco Library’s Koret Auditorium (in the basement), panelists Edward Hasbrouck, Laurie McAndish King, and Erin Van Rheenen will discuss “How and Why I Built...

[Editor's note: Many thanks to Laurie McAndish King for letting us post her excellent notes from Tim Cahill's talk (interview by Don George, actually) at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference in Corte Madera last month.  This originally ran in Travel Writers News, Laurie's website.] Tim...

We are grateful to Lee Daley for sharing her notes from the August, 2009, BATW meeting and “Photojournalism” presentation by Carol Stevenson, Morton Beebe, John Montgomery and David Sanger.  Thank you, Lee.

Thanks to Suzanne Rodriguez for forwarding this link to a delightful cartoon that she suggests “is one of the greatest and most subtle instruction sets ever in the history of the world.”  See the full cartoon (it’s well worth it) at: http://xkcd.com/627/

Congratulations to BATW member Edward Hasbrouck, was elected Co-Chair of the Book Division of the National Writers Union (NWU) by delegates to the NWU’s biennial national convention in Chicago.  Edward attended the convention as part of the San Francisco NWU chapter delegation.  He notes that...

David Page's story about the "most traveled man" in Men's Journal David Page has an article about Bay Area resident Charles Veley and the battle to be the “World’s Most Traveled Man” in the September, 2009, “Style & Design” issue of Men’s Journal...