Redwood Writers
Celebrate California Writers Week
Aspiring writers and poets are invited to celebrate California Writers Week with a free event on October 18, 2023.
Come to the Sonoma Valley Regional Library to bask in the poetry of local authors and learn how Redwood Writers contributes to the craft, marketing, and success of writers.
There will be time for Q&A and admission is free to all.
Judy M. Baker is president of Redwood Writers, the largest chapter of the California Writers Club.
Judy joined Redwood Writers to develop her skills as an author and poet. She became President of the Club in 2022. She has served the group in several capacities including Vice President, chair of Membership, Redwood Writers Academy, a member of the Speaker and Conference Teams. Her tech skills helped the group migrate to online meetings and workshops during lock down.
Redwood Writers continues to innovate as it serves its members with monthly in-person meetings, small groups, and publications.
Redwood Writers offers opportunities for writers of all types to learn, grow, and get published.
The mission of Redwood Writers is "Writers Helping Writers." The club offers many opportunities for new and seasoned writers to be seen and heard. Meetings and membership
Monthly meetings take place in Santa Rosa, California.
For information about meetings and joining the club, go to the club website at https://redwoodwriters.org
Get More Buzz for Your Book 6/25/26
📬 Get More Buzz for Your Book
This week on LinkedIn — your 5-post recap
Last week I sent out a newsletter about the one thing AI cannot do for your book marketing — and then I spent two weeks turning it into LinkedIn posts, one angle at a time.
The thing AI cannot do for you is also your most powerful book marketing asset.
Here's the full recap — in case you missed any of it, or want to share what resonated.
🐝 Monday — The One Thing AI Cannot Do
AI can write your bio. Your email sequence. Your LinkedIn posts. But there's one thing it cannot do...
It cannot walk into a room and make the conference organizer think: Oh. That's the one.
AI is very, very good at content. It is not good at being a person. And in a world where every author has AI-polished everything — your presence is your competitive advantage.
👉Read the full post on LinkedIn →
🐝 Tuesday — "Bee You" Is Not Cute Advice
There's a sign on my wall that says "bee you." I didn't put it there as a marketing strategy. It just turns out to be one.
The authors who open speaking doors, attract media, and build real reader communities almost always kept their edges. The strong opinion. The personal story. The slightly weird thing nobody else in their space is saying.
Bee you isn't a tagline. It's the whole strategy.
👉Read the full post on LinkedIn →
🐝 Wednesday — Find Your Deely Bopper
I wear bee antennae when I speak. Black and yellow stripes, yellow pom-pom tips, tiny gold crown at the base. Yes, really.
This week I gave readers a 3-question exercise to find their own "deely bopper" — the specific, only-them thing their audience would never forget. The one that AI can't clone, a competitor can't copy, and an event planner can't forget.
👉Read the full post on LinkedIn →
🐝 Thursday — The Question Every Event Planner Is Quietly Asking
It's not "Is she credentialed?" It's not "Is her topic relevant?"
It's:Is this person interesting enough to put in front of my audience?
Interesting is what closes the booking. Interesting is what gets you recommended six months later. And interesting cannot be generated — it can only be lived, and then shared.
👉Read the full post on LinkedIn →
🐝 Monday (July 7) — AI Is Changing How Speakers Get Found
Speaker planners are now searching for you in ChatGPT. Not just Google. ChatGPT. Perplexity. Claude.
AI systems reward clarity they can trust and reuse. A generic voice disappears. A named framework gets quoted. A specific, distinct, only-you perspective gets synthesized into the answer.
The authors positioned to win aren't the ones with the biggest ad budgets. They're the ones who were unmistakably themselves all along.
👉Read the full post on LinkedIn →
Want to figure out what makes you unmistakably you — and build it into your book marketing?
