Book & Booze, © a 503c organization, is pleased to announce our fifth annual scholarship to the 2010 Stanford Professional Publishing Course. This is a full scholarship and includes housing in Palo Alto during the duration of the course.

Celebrating the the fifth year of making this award, Books & Booze wants to thank our generous sponsors for funding this opportunity to participate in this world reknown course.

The Scholarship will be administered by the Books & Booze© Board of Directors and Holly Brady, executive director of the Stanford Professional Publishing course. To find out more about the Stanford Publishing Course go to http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/sppc.

Those eligible for the scholarship must:
- Be either a current or former employee of a publishing house
- Be in mid-career—someone who would benefit from a two week immersion in and exposure to advanced publishing strategies and new business models
- Live in the one of the nine counties of Northern California


The recipient must be available for the 2010 course which runs from (Dates to be announced) July, 2010.

To apply for the 2010 Scholarship please supply the following information in one package:
- Resume with educational/professional background including book publishing experience
- Brief statement of why you are an ideal candidate for this scholarship
- Two professional or educational letters of recommendation


Applications are due by May 2010--Date TBD. Please send the requested materials in reproducible form to the address below and/or e-mail to info@booksandbooze.org with the words "Scholarship Application" in the subject line.

Scholarship Application
Stanford Publishing Course
749 Guerrero
San Francisco, CA 94110

Books & Booze ©, was created to give the corporate and freelance segments of the independent, lively and visionary San Francisco Bay Area book publishing community an opportunity for social and professional interaction.

We will strive to further the knowledge and influence of the community internally and throughout the entire publishing industry.

2008 Winner of the Books & Booze Scholarship
Dana Goldberg
Executive Editor
Children's Book Press


Stanford Professional Publishing Course 2008 – Testimonial

In the summer of 2008, I was able to attend the Stanford Professional Publishing Course thanks to the generous support of Books & Booze. Without this scholarship, my small nonprofit press wouldn’t have been able to send me — and now that I know what I would have been missing had I not gone, I am doubly grateful.

The course was a whirlwind, a crash course, a true immersion into every aspect of the business I have loved for the past decade. Last year’s theme focused on the digital revolution and how it is forging significant and lasting changes both in our industry and to the very form of the book itself. For seven days, I found myself challenged to rethink my assumptions about what we do as publishers and how we see ourselves in the world as purveyors of stories and information. The discussions, both inside and outside the classrooms in which we met each day, were intellectually stimulating and mind-expanding. What a luxury to exchange ideas with publishing innovators like Bob Miller and Paul Saffo, and to be surrounded by like-minded people from around the world, all grappling with the same fundamentally shifting landscape, all trying to navigate our way ahead of the curve. Because my company functions in such a specific niche (nonprofit, multicultural and bilingual picture books), it was fascinating to extrapolate lessons from how different publishers here and abroad conduct business and try to make the right calls in their own work.

The information and ideas I gathered over the course of the week, as well as the personal and professional contacts I made, continue to help me in my work producing books that excite, inspire, and bring joy, in whatever format they might take in the future. As the industry continues to morph in the face of new technologies and a very challenging economic environment, I often find myself referring back to my notes from the course and my reflections from that week at Stanford. Thanks again to Books & Booze for this wonderful, invaluable experience!