Publishing Day & Vendors
Getting Out There: Publishing & Publicity
Saturday, March 19
Omni Charlottesville Hotel Atrium and Meeting Rooms
235 W. Main Street, Downtown Mall
This year’s Publishing Day will focus on giving authors the tools to get their work noticed and to put it in front of the appropriate audience. How do you select the right press for your book? How does a press make its publicity decisions for their “breakout” authors? These questions and more!
A Vendors Fair will take place in the hotel atrium amid two major streams of programming: Crime Wave mystery and suspense events and Publishing Day events for aspiring and rising authors.
10 a.m.
Agents Roundtable
With Simon Lipskar (Writers House), Maria Massie (Lippincott Massie McQuilkin) and Bill Gladstone (Waterside Productions), and Deborah Clarke Grosvenor (Grosvenor Literary Agency). Moderated by Bob Friedman (Hampton Roads Publishing).
Omni, Ballroom A.
235 W. Main Street
Buzz Your Book
Authors M.J. Rose (The Halo Effect) and Douglas Clegg (Nightmare House) brainstorm publicity avenues for books you bring them.
Omni, James Monroe Room
235 W. Main Street
Noon
The How-to of Screenwriting
With A. J. Jacobs (The Know-It-All), Meg Wolitzer (Fitzgerald Did It: The Writer's Guide to Mastering the Screenplay) and Matthew Friedman (Moving, All of Creation).
Omni, Ballroom A
235 W. Main Street
Poetry Editors Tell All: Publishing Panel
Tips on getting your poetry published with Kate Gale (Editor-Publisher, Red Hen Press), Jeffrey Levine (Editor-Publisher, Tupelo Press), and James Reiss (former editor, Miami University Press).
Gravity Lounge
103 S. First Street
Which Publisher--Regional or National?
Do books with “regional” appeal benefit more by staying local or going national? A roundtable on reaching the right audience with Shannon Ravenel (Editor, Algonquin‘s New Stories of the South series), Ross Howell (Publisher, Howell Press), and Pete Wyrick (Wyrick & Co.).
Omni, Preston Room
235 W. Main Street
2 p.m.
Blogging and Virtual Tours
Plug-in and let the plugging begin! Web-based book promotion with Kevin Smokler (Bookmark Now, forthcoming) and M. J. Rose (Buzz Your Book).
Omni, James Monroe Room
235 W. Main Street
4 p.m.
Making the Breakout Novel
With Kate Walbert (Our Kind) and her agent Maria Massie, and with Kevin Guilfoile (Cast of Shadows) and his agent Simon Lipskar. Moderated by Bella Stander.
Omni, Ballroom A
235 W. Main Street
Writing Children's Books
With Kate Gale (African Sleeping Beauty), Jane Cutler (Rose and Riley, Common Sense and Fowls), and Brian Jud (Shandi Finnessey's The Furrtails).
Charlottesville Ice Park
230 W. Main Street
Sunday, March 20
Writing and Publishing Workshops
This year the festival will feature paid workshops on the craft of writing and the world of publishing from the Charlottesville Writing Center and Tupelo Press on Sunday of the festival. See our Related Events page for more information.
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