This presentation is a collaboration between the New York City chapters of the Romance Writers of America and the Historical Novel Society. On August 2, 2025, Dan Woods the COO of Draft2Digital provided an engaged joint audience with information on getting the packaging right for your books so marketing efforts pay off, what is working best in paid advertising, marketing you can do that is free, plus much more. We're pleased to present this joint venture to our members and hope to do more in the future with this and other writing organizations.

Presenter:

Dan Woods, COO Draft2Digital (https://draft2digital.com/)

Additional information:

RWA/NYC website: https://rwanyc.com

Contact: info@rwanyc.com

HNS-NYC website: https://www.hnsnyc.org

Contact: info@hnsnyc.org

The New York City Chapter of the Historical Novel Society presents this special program recorded on June 7, 2025 in the virtual reality space of the Foremothers Café. Helen Lundström Erwin hosted us in her VR space inspired by the research she conducted for her book Sour Milk in Sheep’s Wool. She invited our members to a discussion of images provided by authors Loretta Goldberg (Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: a World War II Novel of Love and Loss ), Faith L. Justice (Theodosian Women series ) and Sarah Relyea (Playground Zero). They talked about the images and their relationship to their books; social customs dealing with marriage and gay/lesbian relationships in the times they write about, and much more. A fascinating program for our writers and readers alike.

Additional Information:HNS-NYC website: https://hnsnyc.org

Guests:

Loretta Goldberg https://lorettagoldberg.com/

Beyond the Bukubuk Tree: a World War II Novel of Love andLoss https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4MH8D63

Faith L. Justice https://faithljustice.com

The Theodosain Women series https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFLHD6K/ and Sword of the Gladiatrix https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WTCSPN6/

Sarah Relyea https://www.sarahrelyea.com

Playground Zero: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631528890

Host:

Helen Lundström Erwin https://helenerwin.com/

Sour Milk in Sheep’s Wool (19C Sweden)

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Helen-Lundstr%C3%B6m-Erwin/author/B0979XTDXV

The New York City Chapter of the Historical Novel Society presents this program on writing alternate history in historical fiction, recorded on May 27, 2025. What is the balance needed in writing a novel based in fact, but embroidered with flights of fancy? Author Kris Waldherr (Unnatural Creatures is in conversation with Elizabeth Crowens (Bye Bye Blackbird) and Susan Wands (Emperor and Hierophant) who took license with set stories and provided an “alternate reality” in executing their narrations. They discuss how they wove fact, fiction, and other worlds into their writing. A fascinating program for our writers and readers alike.

Information about our chapter is available at our website . Thank you and enjoy the program.

HNS-NYC website: https://hnsnyc.org

Panelists:

Elizabeth Crowens https://www.elizabethcrowens.com/

Bye Bye Blackbird https://www.amazon.com/dp/1685128408

Susan Wands https://susanwands.com/

Emperor and Hierophant https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684633028/

Host

Kris Waldherr https://kriswaldherr.com/

Unnatural Creatures https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B26TYV2S/