Whatcom Writers and Publishers

A supper club connecting

Whatcom writers and industry speakers

February 12th meeting

Kathleen “Kat” May is a professional marketer who has worked with small and large businesses and individuals to create successful marketing and public relations campaigns for their products and services for over 20 years. Her clients have included H&R Block’s corporate headquarters, the (Silicon) Valley Transportation Authority, Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), Penton Media, Farm Credit, the University of Colorado, Arizona State University and Naropa University – among many others. She has also worked as a researcher, editor and ghostwriter for several successful nonfiction authors, including award-winning leadership coach Marie Mactavish and best-selling author and community leader, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone.

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In 2009 Kat launched a digital marketing agency in Boulder, Colorado with her husband that sold to a larger U.S. agency - and then she did it again in Seattle with her company, Boldly Social. Now Kat works as a technical and persuasive business writer, editor and publisher from her home office in Bellingham. She’s currently working on her first YA fiction book, Dearest Destiny, which deals with many of the challenges that teens face in a rapidly changing world, both distressful and hopeful.

Kat is a graduate of Western Washington University (BAEd) has been leading marketing workshops for over 10 years. On February 5, 2020, her talk, Social Marketing for Writers, will offer practical ideas for authors to promote themselves and their books using social media tools and techniques that make online engagement faster and easier – so writers can spend more time writing.

Connect with Kat where’s she’s at:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/katmay

eMail: kat@katmayink.com

Website: katmayink.com

New to WWP

Welcome, Pacific Northwest Writers! 

We meet every second Wednesday from September to June in scenic Bellingham, WA. Supper starts at 5:30, and the speaker starts at 7:00. Happy hour prices at Nikki's Bella Marina (see map below) apply until 6, if you want a drink to relax while you chat and have dinner upstairs in the Skyline room. 

Dues are 25 dollars a year or 40 for two years. We use the dues to pay for our speakers to come from around the region, and for an occasional table at local writer events. Our dues year runs from September to June, like our meetings, but will roll over if you pay late in the cycle. If you want to try us out first, feel free. Speakers in the past have included authors Cami Ostman and Robert Dugoni, and agent Donald Maass, covering topics such as social media, self-publishing, memoirs, mixed media, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It is our goal to offer something for everyone, no matter your place in the writing journey-- just starting or long-published. Old school or new. If you have an idea for a speaker or topic, let us know, but if it has been covered recently it might not be picked up.

Pay your dues 

25 for 1 year

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40 for 2 years

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40 for couples

To pay online, please provide name and email address on the form so we can keep track of you.

We have a paypal account if you would prefer to pay on line. You can also pay by check; just drop it off with the treasurer at a meeting.