Thank you for your interest in the California Authors Directory. To avoid production delays please create your listing carefully, based on the example below. To see more listings, click here to open the full directory in a new window. Scroll down — below the sample listing — for step-by-step instructions for the submission process.

Sample Listing:

Gerald Haslam Known for celebrating California’s small towns, Gerald Haslam has published eight collections of short stories, including The Other California, That Constant Coyote and Condor Dreams. He also is the author of Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California, Manuel and the Madman, and Straight White Male. He lives in Penngrove.

“Gerald Haslam writes wonderfully about the California that few of us know, the farmlands and oilfields of the Central Valley, and the children of the “Okies” who grew up there. His characters may grow up and move away, but they’ve been formed by the Valley and never really leave it in spirit.” — Cyra McFadden

website: www.geraldhaslam.com.e-mail: ghaslam@sonic.net

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Submitting your listing: Filling out the form

To submit your listing, use the form here. Some tips for filling out the form:

In Section 1: Build your listing as you would like it to appear

• Author Name. (required) Enter your name exactly as you would like it to appear in the directory.

• Author Bio/Books. (required) Please submit a concise paragraph that sums up you and your work, approximately 40 to 65 words. You’ll want to include your most recent book titles and your location in California so that people will know where to find you. (Event organizers often tell us that they often use the Author Directory to book speakers for events.) We will include bookstore links to your books where available. Note: Your Author Directory listing should not include dated event information. Instead your author listing should be a timeless entry that will interest readers in your work. Readers can then follow the link to your website or your publisher’s website to learn more.

• Quote. (optional) You may include a blurb. Please put only the quote into this blank. For example:

“Wonderfully wry-melancholy….An auspicious and stirring debut.”

• Quote attribution. (required if you have chosen to include a blurb). In this field, please enter the quote author and his/her publication. Please use the format below: person, comma, publication.

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

• Website. (optional) You can enter your website’s URL here. If you don’t have a site, you can point to your publisher’s site. Please use the format: http://www.example.com

• Email. (optional) You can enter your public email here. This address will be published as a way for CaliforniaAuthors.com readers to contact you. Please note: publishing an email address on the web can increase spam you receive at that address. If you do not want to include an email address, please enter “none” in this field.

• Booktour URL BookTour is “the world’s largest, 100% free directory of author events,” and when authors enter their event information at BookTour, the listings show up in CaliforniaAuthors.com’s events search results — and also reach users of BookTour.com and its other strategic partners, like goodreads.com. Learn more at BookTour.com or click here to sign up and list your events. It’s free! If you are a BookTour.com author and provide your BookTour author page URL (example: http://booktour.com/author/donna_wares) in your directory listing submission, we will include a link to your listed events.

In Section 2: Give us your contact/background info

None of the information gathered in this section will be published, but it is necessary for us to complete the listing process.

• Contact/billing name. (required) Please enter the name of the person who is submitting the listing.

• Contact/billing email. (required) Please enter the e-mail where you want us to contact you. It must be an e-mail address that you are checking regularly, because it is the one we will use to send you your final sign-off correspondence.

• Publisher’s website. (required) Please give us your publisher’s web site address. Please use the format: http://www.example.com. This will not be published as part of your listing. We will use this site as part of our verification process and to learn more about your books.

• Notes. (optional) Here is a place for your special instructions or questions about your listing.

In Section 3: Tell us how you will pay for your listing

CaliforniaAuthors.com accepts payments via PayPal or personal check. Please select a payment method from the pulldown menu. When you click the button to submit your listing, you will be taken to a confirmation page with further instructions for completing payment by either methods. You do not have to have a PayPal account to make credit card and e-check payments via its service. To learn more about secure online payments via PayPal, click here.

In section 4: Send us your listing

• Prove you’re not a robot. Asking this question helps us prevent internet spam robots from submitting listings.

• Please read the important notes on policy and procedure before submitting your listing.

• Click “Yes, submit my listing” to send us your entry.

Paying for your listing

When you submit your listing, you will be taken to a page with payment instructions. Listings post when payment clears.

Canceling a listing submission

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Refunds for declined listings will be made via the same method as payment. Fees are based on an annual listing; there are no refunds for partial years.

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