Publishing

Eric Anderson is president of Futurethru Group, Inc., a software consulting firm specializing in website content-management systems for small and midsize businesses. He began programming in 1975, developed his first website in 1995 and has published four books. 3/23, Publishers' Day.
Josef Beery is a graphic designer and book artist who lives in Charlottesville. He is one of the founders of the Virginia Arts of the Book Center and a member of Ten Flavors Studios. 3/23, 11 a.m., 4 p.m.
Robin Braun, a resident member of the McGuffey Art Center, is a painter currently at work on a new children's book. 3/23, 11 a.m., 2 p.m.
	Rick Britton grew up in the U.S., Argentina, and Brazil. He has been a freelance writer/editor/photographer since the mid-1990s. His work has appeared in Albemarle Magazine, U.Va. Alumni News, Civil War Times Illustrated, Civil War Magazine, 64 Magazine, and the Washington Times. To date, he has published over 150 articles. 3/22, 10 a.m.
Sheree Bykofsky is a New York City literary agent and the author of more than a dozen books, including the Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published. Sheree teaches publishing at NYU and maintains a website for writers at http://www.shereebee.com. 3/23, 8:30 a.m.
	Alan Cheuse, author of three novels, two collections of short fiction and Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing, regularly reviews contemporary books for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Antioch Review and elsewhere. 3/21, 2 p.m.
Douglas Clegg is the author of numerous print-pulished novels and one eNovel. He is winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award. His current novels include Naomi, The Infinite, and You Come When I Call You. Clegg and M.J. Rose coauthored Buzz Your Book. 3/23, Publishers' Day.
Johanna Drucker, is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Media Studies at UVa. Her publications have been in the field of 20th-century art history, the history of writing and the alphabet, artists' books, experimental typography, and visual and concrete poetry. 3/23 Publishers' Day 10 a.m.; 4 p.m.
Jason Epstein launched Anchor Books in 1952, beginning the paperback revolution. Editorial director at Random House, he edited Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, E.L. Doctorow and Gore Vidal. He is a founder of The New York Review of Books and the co-founder of The Library of America. He is currently exploring the capacities of on-demand publishing. 3/23 Publishers' Day.
Debra Fabrizzi is currently the artist in resident at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, located in the McGuffey Art Center in downtown Charlottesville. She is a letterpress printer, book artist, and sole proprietor of Furnace Fire Press. 3/23, 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m.
Scott Fennesey is the owner of Blue Whale Books, Inc., a dealer in used and rare books, antiquarian maps and original prints. He is a graduate of Cornell University and UVa, where he worked on the staff of Rare Book School. 3/22, 10 a.m.
Carol Fitzgerald is the founder and president of Bookreporter.com, a site from The Book Report Network. 3/23 Publishers' Day.
	Marika Flatt, National Media Director of Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists, specializes in obtaining national media interviews, reviews and feature stories. Flatt serves on the board of the Austin, Texas chapter of the Association for Women in Communications. 3/22, 2 p.m.
	John Harnish, author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Print-On-Demand Publishing But Didn't Know Who to Ask and Special Projects Director at Infinity Publishing, has been involved in publishing for more than four decades, from letterpress to high-speed digital presses. 3/23 Publishers' Day.
Jennifer Howard, a contributing editor of The Washington Post Book World, has written for the Boston Review, The Village Voice, Slate, Salon and other publications. Her fiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review and online in the Blue Moon Review. 3/21, 2 p.m.
	Karen Jones, co-author of Up the Bestseller Lists!, is a veteran of the radio and television industries who spent nine years at an ABC affiliate as an on-air anchor and feature reporter. She won an Associated Press Award for "The Haunting of Virginia" and lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 3/22, 12 noon.
Mayapriya Long, a Charlottesville resident, is an award-winning publication designer who has worked in newspapers, magazines, books and ebooks. In 1993 she started Bookwrights Design, a design studio for publishers of all sizes. Her articles have appeared in various e-magazines. 3/23 Publishers' Day.
Sandra Martin is the CEO of Paraview. She originally began Paraview as a television production company in 1985. In 1989, Martin founded the Paraview Literary Agency and has agented numerous New York Times best-sellers. 3/21, 12 noon.
Gael P. Mustapha is the author of the Adventures in Hawaii children's book series and a self-published novel about the "croning" of Cinderella. Mustapha writes regularly on grandparenting, travel, artists, and seasonal topics for newspapers, special interest magazines, and websites. 3/22 10 a.m.
Susan Rabiner worked in publishing for more than 25 years as an editor, most recently as editorial director of Basic Books, a division of HarperCollins. Among the authors she acquired and edited are Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking and Lawrence Krauss, author of the bestselling The Physics of Star Trek. 3/22, 12 noon.
Jane Rafal, formerly of Viking-Penguin and Prentice-Hall, conducts writers_ workshops across the country. Her editing work includes the best-selling authors Erica Jong and Sol Stein. She is currently the editor of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. 3/20 7 p.m.
	Marion Reynolds, a resident member of the McGuffey Art Center, is a painter and teacher of painting in the process of illustrating a children's book. 3/23, 11 a.m., 2 p.m.
	M.J. Rose, co-author of How to Publish and Promote Online, has been called by Time magazine the "poster girl for e-books." She has been featured in Newsweek, The New York Times, Salon, The Wall Street Journal, Writer's Digest, Poets & Writers, the Today Show, the Jim Lehrer NewsHour and C-Span. 3/22 2 p.m.; 3/23 Publishers' Day.
David Seaman is the founding director of the Electronic Text Center at UVa. He teaches e-text and internet courses at UVA and in the annual summer Book Arts Press Rare Book School at Virginia and speaks internationally on humanities computing. 3/22, 2 p.m.; 3/23 Publishers' Day.
	Bella Stander writes about books for such publications as People, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and Albemarle magazine. She lives in Charlottesville. 3/21, 2 p.m.
Peter Steinberg is a Literary agent and Director of Film Rights at JCA Literary Agency in New York City, representing literary and commercial novels, narrative non-fiction, short story collections, true crime and memoir. JCA's clients include Ernest Gaines, Alicia Erian and Nina de Gramont. 3/21, 12 noon.
Dave Taylor is the owner of the bookstore, Read It Again Sam, which specializes in mystery books and thrillers. He also deals with rare book acquisition. 3/22, 10 a.m.