Lee Foster’s accumulating monthly columns on the subject of “apps and ebooks” can be accessed for free by BATW members. Lee publishes these columns on Rohn Engh’s photo marketing site, PhotoStockNOTES, at http://www.photostocknotes.com/psn. Lee’s columns are gathered, upper right, at the...

Tom Wilmer has just finished production on a six-part radio/Podcast Northern Arizona travel series (for California Central Coast NPR affiliates) with a special focus on the Hopi and Navajo Nations. “The Hopi Nation loved my shows and put them on their website homepage; the Navajo Nation, likewise,...

BATW Webmaster Dick Jordan notes that MemberClicks offers a free iPhone app from the iTunes App Store that lets BATW members access the “Members Only” area of the BATW website. The app also works on the iPad and iPod Touch. The app lets you do the following: View and edit your own Profile in the...

Ginny Prior’s column on the fun destination of Branson, MO (think Vegas without the sin) for Hills Newspapers received a lot of attention from readers. See her website for photos and videos.        

BATW member Edward Hasbrouck attended the biennial National Writers Union (NWU) Delegate Assembly in Detroit on June 24-26, as one of the delegates representing the NWU’s SF Bay Area Chapter. Edward was re-elected as co-chair of the NWU’s Book Division (www.nwubook.org) for the next two years. Edward...

Husband-and-wife writing team Jules and Effin Older have just published their latest app, Auckland Insider. Back on one of their regular visits to catch up with their New Zealand family, Jules tells BATW that Auckland Insider “started life as a (for us) reasonably conventional app: museums, attractions,...

Sheila O’Connor recently covered the three-day St. Kitts Music Festival in The Epoch Times–a new direction for her.

Picasso was the subject for Georgia Hesse‘s latest Sense of Travel column for the Foreign Travel Club’s monthly newsletter. And why not, as Picasso is the hot ticket in San Francisco these days? Her column’s nota bene: “There’s a plentitude of Picassos in San Francisco this...

New member Jeneka Ossa published “Sacramento Braumeister Makes Award-Winning Brews” in the Land Park News, one of several papers published by Valley Community Newspapers.  

Rockin H Ranch The unique setting for July’s meeting was the airplane hangar of the Rockin H, a privately owned ranch on the picturesque Lakeville Highway in Petaluma. Karen Misuraca acted as host for the packed agenda. Elisa Southard announced details about BATW’s first anthology of travel stories...