Who’s Babz Bitela?

New York born Barbara Bitela has been a on the stage as a musician (singer) and off (public relations for celebrities, corporate clients) for more than thirty years and has experienced a variety of successes in the much of what the music business had to offer and brought her writing to skills to the fiction genre.

Barbara has been nominated for her first EVVY Award (2006), a national contest which spotlights entertaining projects by self-published authors (The Art of Regifting). She won first place for short story fiction in 2006 for the CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition and an Honorable Mention in Sacramento Public Library Writing 2002 contest for her touching story War Dogs, a story based on a few days in the life of a Viet Nam Vet. She prefers coaching writers young and old (most of them for free) rather than enter contests.

Severe Tire Damage: Story of a Rock Singer sells out at every book signing. Full Moon Morning: A Shanghai Survivor’s Story is completed and there is film interest in this epic adventure story of how one boy’s faith ignites during the World War II occupation of Shanghai. Debe Scott (London based, her screenplay Birds Eye is currently in pre-production in Hollywood) is working on the screenplay for FMM. The story based on true events and could be taken from today’s headlines.

The Art of Regifting has been touted as the stocking stuffer for ‘gifters’ and ‘regifters’ alike. Bitela says: “In the absence of etiquette ‘stuff’ happens. The Art of Regifting is a fun ‘go to’ guide for almost any age and is gender neutral. Priced low, it’s the ideal stocking stuffer and provides an adult ‘play room’ of gifting ideas and stresses the intangibles like kindness and compassion. Regifting makes its presence known much like Santa: every year! And the ‘DNA’ of regifting really kicks in after the holidays, when the average person is neck high in Christmas and holiday booty: a perfect time to set up that regifting closet.”

With an extensive background in corporate public relations and during the 80’s, literally hundreds of press releases (written for composers who score feature films, television, etc.) have appeared in magazines like The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and the magazine section of the Los Angeles Times.

Barbara’s charity of choice is Feed The Children and thus, at every book signing or radio interview she does, she mentions this charity and its successes around the world.