SF-CAPS:  Consultants, Coaches, Authors & Public Speakers As a service based professional, you are in an endless game to create more clients, charge as much as possible for your services and create extraordinary results with your clients. Join us to learn advanced techniques about how the top service professionals achieve waiting lists of clients, charge more then their peers and create unexpected results. Led by a successful Bay Area Speakers, Authors and Coaches Michael Leahey and Peter Khoury …

Welcome to The Writers’ Place! This Meet-Up is for aspiring authors who would love to take writing and creativity classes in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Skip the bridges and tunnels. Join Creativity/Writing Coach, Barbara Millman Cole and Freelance Editor and YA author, Karen Morison-Knox, for classes on writing, editing, and creativity. Transform into the writer you want to be. Barbara and Karen, both award-winning authors, will help you discover the joy of writing and the secrets to writing …

A group for Derusha book and author events taking place on the West Coast. Join to learn about official opportunities to meet the authors of some of your favorite books - and to organize your own book discussions and events!

We are a group of writers who are seriously dedicated to the process and content of our writing. Some of us work professionally as writers and also have different creative genres of writing that we are working on (novels, scripts, essays, memoirs, travel writing, and more). Others work in different professions but have writing projects they are deeply committed to. We encourage, inspire, critique each other, and also network. We meet at least once a month, so far on Saturday afternoons, for abou …

Consultants, Coaches, Authors, Practitioners, and Speakers As a service based professional, you are in an endless game to create more clients, charge as much as possible for your services and create extraordinary results with your clients. Join us to learn advanced techniques about how the top service professionals achieve waiting lists of clients, charge more than their peers and create unexpected results. Led by a successful Branding Strategist & Influence Mentor Mark Allen Grainger Also stay …

We are an entrepreneurial business "Think Tank". CEO Space has helped thousands of business owners raise BILLIONS of dollars over the last 20 years. We help Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Inventors, Authors, Speakers, and Investors with all the necessary resources to grow their business. WE ARE HELPING COMPANIES LAUNCH EVEN IN THIS ECONOMIC STORM! CEO Space becomes your Business GPS in these financial storms. Our FREE meetings are for networking with other local business p …

Join us as we meet, greet and get up close and personal with chefs, winemakers, hoteliers, artists, celebrities, writers and others who inspire us and are responsible for elevating our lifestyles and love for all things good! www.cloutandabout.com   Here are a few things you should know about our meetup group;  • A quarterly membership of $50.00 is due upon signing up with our team. Annual payment is discounted to $175.00. First quarter starts at July - September 2011. • We do not offer refun …

… Aside from monthly meetups where we discuss the book of the month (primarily by African American authors), we meet up to go to the movies, plays, dinner , Game Night, etc. throughout the year. The Bay Area Chapter of Sista's Book / Social Club is based in the heart of the the Bay Oakland, but have members in surrounding cities. Sista's Book/ Social Club was founded in 2010. Membership Fees: There will be a membership fee upon joining the group. Membership requires a $15.00 Annual Membership Fee …

Founded by Tara Russell of Three Month Visa Coaching and Consulting and run in partnership with Laurie Koski of Pink Shoe Tours, this is a great Meetup for seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers alike! Our Travel Book Club discussions and Travel Lectures Series events feature books and speakers to inspire you if you are currently dreaming of "hitting the road" as well as provide necessary resources for planning and realizing that trip of a lifetime. Our focus is building a community of tr …

SF in SF - Science Fiction, San Francisco - A Perfect Fit. We host monthly author events and films at the Variety Screening Room at 582 Market Street @2nd & Montgomery, SF 94104. Authors and films focus on the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related literary genres; previous guests include Cory Doctorow, Rudy Rucker, Kage Baker, Carol Emshwiller, Laurie King, Ray Garton, John Shirley, Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, Brian & Wendy Froud, and too many more to list here. Authors read a selection, a …

If you've always wanted to get a book published and didn't know how, this meetup group will teach you the steps. · Learn how to pitch your book at a conference · Demystify the query letter and get steps on how to write one · Develop your author platform before you are even published We'll explore traditional publishing and self-publishing, and everything in between, and break down the right publishing steps for you into manageable chunks so you can integrate writing and publishing into your dail …

UPDATE: I'm seeking suggestions for meeting spaces in SF. I'd prefer a free or low-cost room, because I'd like to keep the meeting fee affordable.  Thanks for any direction you can provide!  Gina   In the coming months, I will be offering groups for adults with ADHD throughout the Bay Area. For many years, I have led a popular Adult ADHD group in Palo Alto. Through that, I've learned that many people in surrounding areas also need such a group. Throughout ten years of nationally advocating for g …

If the thought of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior fascinates you and you've been pondering Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji for some time, then this is the book club for you!  Slice of Mooncake is based in San Francisco and will focus on literature primarily by Asian American authors, but will also embrace stories centered on Asian culture, history, and icons. Selection of readings will be suggested by both the Organizer and members, and include current fiction, nonfiction, classics …

Visit us at  FEM-Talks.com FEM Talks is our monthly women’s gathering and networking event. Meet up with 80 warm-hearted women each and every month, on the 2nd Monday. Delight in provocative discussions, topics, networking and time to connect as women! Prepare to be wholly inspired! For FEM Talks women, it’s all about the ripple effect; creating waves of practical change on this planet by empowering local women leaders, teachers and healers like you to unleash your gifts! Some of our rece …

Are you procrastinating, or feeling tired and frustrated in your work? Are the usual productivity techniques -- color-coding your folders, reorganizing your e-mail inbox, and so on -- not doing the trick for you? In this group, we take getting things done to a deeper level. This group's classes are about using mindfulness practices, like meditation and yoga, to find focus and motivation while you work -- without even leaving your desk. The classes are led by Chris Edgar, author of Inner Produc …

… If you, too, have authors who awake a sense of wonderment and awe within each of you, then this book club is perfect for you. I envision the meet-ups to be a relaxed fun atmosphere where we can discuss the books we love over tea or drinks and snacks, making some new friends along the way. I gather that all of us will bring different interests and books and ideas to share, so we can take turns choosing books to read, to share, to love. My interest lie specifically in works by earlier writers Jane …