Barbara Bella

Barbara has been a working mom and owner of a premier West Coast Publishers’ Representative Firm which provides advertising sales management for magazine brands in print and digital formats. Employing over 150 professionals in San Francisco and Los Angeles over the course of her career, Barbara has been both mentor and colleague. She has served on the Board as Trustee of San Francisco University High School and is Chair Emerita of Golden Gate Philharmonic youth orchestra.

Barbara has planned ten Mother-Daughter trips over a decade with another mother-daughter duo where together they have traveled the world. She became a CASA last year and currently mentors a high school youth in San Francisco. She resides on Russian Hill, San Francisco with her husband, John Baccaglini. One of her greatest joys is the loving relationship she has with her daughter Bree, now 27.

Amber is a freelance watercolor artist. Her work appears in several comics and commissions. Mother-Daughter Days on Russian Hill: Tales of Love and Laughter is the first children's book she has illustrated.

Here is an interview by Norm Goldman, editor and publisher of Bookpleasures.com with author Barbara Bella:

http://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/9261/1/In-Conversation-With-Barbara-Bella-Author-of--Mother-Daughter-Days-on-Russian-Hill-Tales-of-Love-and-Laughter/Page1.html