A Business of Writing Presentation
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Choosing which publishing format to pursue—traditional publisher, independent press, self-publishing company, or hybrid publisher—is among the most important decisions aspiring authors must make. What are the pros and cons of each model? How can writers determine which is the best fit for their book? What should they consider before submitting a manuscript without representation, or accepting a publisher’s offer?
In this panel, five authors will discuss these topics and more, based on their own experiences with each format, followed by a Q&A session.
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Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They also teach in Goddard College's MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures, which is a Shirley Jackson Awards finalist for Best Novel. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, contributing writer at Spectrum South, and Founding Editor in Chief at the LGBTQIA+ fashion literary and arts magazine just femme & dandy.
(photography by Bex Lawson)
Farah Ali is the writer of the short-story collection People Want to Live. Her work has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize where it has also received special mention. Her stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. Her novel, The River, The Town, is forthcoming in 2023.
Megan Frazer Blakemore is an award-winning author for children and young adults. Her books include the middle grade novels The Water Castle, The Firefly Code, and Princess of the Wild Sea. She is also the author of the YA novel Good and Gone and the Frankie Sparks: Third Grade Inventor chapter book series. She lives in Southern Maine with her family where she also works as a school librarian.
Josephine Cameron is the author of Not All Heroes, a Junior Library Guild Gold Star Selection and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. Her critically-acclaimed debut, Maybe a Mermaid, was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and her mystery novel, A Dog-Friendly Town, received three starred reviews and was a Parents magazine Storytime Pick. Josephine received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and currently lives in Maine. Her newest novel, a stand alone mystery in the Dog-Friendly universe, The Department of Lost Dogs, will be published in 2023.
Robin Clifford Wood – poet, essayist, columnist, and teacher – is the award-winning author of The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine, a biography-memoir hybrid about Maine author Rachel Field. She has a BA from Yale, an MA in English from University of Rochester and an MFA from University of Southern Maine. Wood’s work has been featured in Solstice Literary Magazine, Décor Maine, Bangor Metro, and more. Wood lives in central Maine with her husband. Learn more at: https://www.robincliffordwood.com/.
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