As a service to all of our members, press releases/news from our Associate Members will be posted on our website (http://www.batw.org/category/news/press-releases/). These will be updated as submitted, so keep on checkin’.

(November 18) – Ojai invites the traveler to experience the magic of the holiday season! Several of the unique Inns located in Ojai are offering special rates and offerings. In addition, visitors can enjoy a number of special events including the 15th Annual Holiday Home Look In, showcasing four...

How to Optimize Your Relationship with a PR Firm By Laurie King One benefit of BATW membership is the opportunity for writers and photographers to meet and develop relationships with BATW’s Associate members—including talented and well-connected PR professionals. In anticipation of our November 19th...

October was a bonanza month for BATW! We welcomed both Laurie Armstrong (San Francisco Travel) and William Kim (California Tours) as Associate Members; and Cathleen Miller, a freelancer based in Los Gatos, as an Active Member.  

Thank you to all members who submitted pieces for consideration into the BATW anthology. We’ve received more than 60 entries, and everything is on schedule for the judging period to begin Nov. 15. The selections to be included will be announced March 1 (in the March 1 website update). And mark your...

Syndicating Your Blog Posts and Increasing Comments to Your Blog Posts by Dick Jordan Here are two plugins that could be useful to writers who have WordPress.org self-hosted blogs: 1) Repost.us (http://www.repost.us), which allows syndication of posts on your blog for republishing on other blogs or Websites,...

According to Carla King, the next Self-Publishing Boot Camp will be held on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, on the Stanford University Campus. This is a no-nonsense, daylong workshop with eight experts who will arm you with all the information you need to independently publish, distribute and market your book...

David Page’s story “Hurtling Toward the Range of Light” ran in the October issue of Go, AirTran Airways’ inflight magazine: Here’s the lead: “IN MY EXPERIENCE, most journeys worthy of the name begin not so much with that first step prescribed by the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu,...

Tova and Navot Bornovski at Fish 'n Fins, their dive shop on Palau. Photo by George Medovoy George Medovoy’s latest story – “Two Israelis Share a Pacific Paradise with the World” – was posted on www.JPost.com, the popular online edition of Israel’s English-language newspaper, the Jerusalem...

For nearly a year, Suzie Rodriguez has been covering Sonoma Valley as a correspondent for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. In that time, she has written a minimum of five articles each week that range from people profiles to politics to art & music to environmental issues to history, ad infinitum. According...