Women in Publishing

10/22/2026

We’re kicking off the 2027 WIP Conference Season with our first partner webinar. And this one is amazing! Replay will be available.

10/21/2026

Most of us plan our book right up to launch day. After that, the plan is basically a shrug and a hope that Amazon sprinkles some magic on it.

Jennifer S. Wilkov wants you to ask a bigger question first: What do I want my book to make possible?

Speaking gigs. A business. Media. Partnerships. Film, TV, streaming, documentary. One book can open a LOT of doors, but only if you know which ones you’re knocking on.

Jennifer is the founder of Your Book Is Your Hook, our 2027 Women in Publishing Summit Headline Partner. She’s taught for the Writers Guild of America East and the Motion Picture Association, and she produces The Business of Adaptation panel for New York Women in Film & Television. She has a very good eye for which books have a second life waiting for them.

You’ll learn how to:

1. Define what you want your book to do beyond sales
2. Spot which opportunities actually fit your goals (not all of them will, and that’s fine)
3. Position your book so other people can see its potential
4. Walk away with a personalized next-step plan

Your Book Is the Beginning: How to Turn One Book into a World of Opportunity

Thursday, October 22
3 pm ET / 12 pm PT
Live on Zoom

Register on our events page!

10/15/2026

Repeat after us: I bet on myself first.

On the Stages & Pages stage in San Antonio, I asked the room to repeat a line, and then I corrected it.

“If I don’t believe in myself, nobody else can believe in me.”

That isn’t actually true. A lot of people believed in me before I believed in myself. Someone probably believed in your book before you did, too.

But their belief only gets you to the door. Walking on stage, hitting publish and sending the pitch take your own bet.

So say it with us.

Type “I bet on myself first” in the comments. Then tag the person who believed in you before you did.

10/02/2026

09/22/2026

The first thing most of us check before booking a conference is who’s speaking. It’s almost never the thing that changes your year.

Alexa says the Stages & Pages lineup is hands down incredible, and then she spends the rest of her answer talking about everyone else in the room: the sponsors, the workshop leaders, the other attendees, the woman you end up sitting next to.

Her example is one she couldn’t have planned. She was standing at a table at the career day fair at her kids’ elementary school when Roshanda Pratt’s daughter came up and told her that her mom was an Amazon bestselling author and the two of them should know each other. Her daughter made the introduction. It turned into one of the most important relationships in her business and her life.

So don’t stress about which workshop covers what. Come for the room.

San Antonio, October 15 and 16, plus the 17th if you take the VIP pass. We’re capped at 120 tickets. Comment STAGES or go to stagesandpagesevent.com

09/14/2026

I don’t read the agenda before I buy a conference ticket. I check the dates against my calendar and whether I’m mid-launch, and if it clears, I buy.

Every useful thing I’ve taken home from a conference came out of a conversation, at dinner or at lunch or in the lobby with three other women two hours after the last session ended. So what I look at is who’s going to be in the room, and whether the people running it have earned their reputation.

Stages & Pages is capped at 120 for that reason. October 15-17 on the San Antonio River Walk, co-hosted by Women in Publishing and April Adams Pertuis’s April Adams Pertuis | Story Coach.

Small enough that you end up across the dinner table from the woman whose session you came for.

Go look at your October. If those three days are clear, comment STAGES and I’ll send you the details.

09/12/2026

Todd Hill was 34 when he called his mother from the World Trade Center Marriott. He said there had been an explosion and that he was going to try to get out. That was the last time his family heard his voice.

His sister Holly Little is in this community. Her book, 9/11: Reflections of the Past 25 Years, publishes today, on the 25th anniversary.

Ann Van Hine lost her husband the same morning. Bruce was an FDNY firefighter, he responded, and he never came home. Ann was left with two young daughters and a life that looked nothing like the one she had planned, and years later she wrote it down. Pieces Falling came out in 2021.

Two of our members carried the same day for twenty-five years and turned it into something a stranger can hold.

Here is the ask. Buy one of these books, or both. Read it, and leave a review when you finish, because reviews are what keep a book findable in year two and year twenty, long after the anniversary posts stop.

Twenty-five years is long enough for a day to become history. Holly and Ann are making sure it stays a name.

Titles and links in the comments.