F116. So You’ve Got a Book Deal – Now What? How to Make the Best Use of Pre-launch

B110-112, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Friday, March 29, 2019
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Once the honeymoon of a book deal is over and edits are completed, authors are often confused about how to most effectively spend the months prior to their book’s launch. There are marketing strategies to evaluate, publicity opportunities to pitch, as well as the ever-important work of social media and real-life networking. This panel will empower writers to be publication stakeholders, as well as offer creative ideas and strategies for navigating this exciting and sometimes overwhelming time.


Participants

Moderator:

Lucy Silag is publicity lead at Little A, the literary fiction and nonfiction imprint of Amazon Publishing. She has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and she is also the author of the Beautiful Americans trilogy of YA books.

Hafizah Geter's poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Tin House, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Narrative Magazine, among others. On the board of VIDA, she is an Editor at Little A from Amazon Publishing.

Nancy Rommelmann's latest book is To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her articles, book reviews, and essays appear in the Wall Street Journal, the LA Weekly, the New York Times, and other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and New York City.

Neal Thompson is a journalist and the author of five books, including A Curious Man, Driving with the Devil, and the 2018 memoir Kickflip Boys. Thompson manages the Amazon Literary Partnership; he previously ran Amazon's Best Books of the Month program and co-owned the Amazon Book Review blog.

Cinelle Barnes, a memoirist, essayist, and educator, has received fellowships from Kundiman and VONA, and she is the writer-in-residence at the Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Literary Hub, and Buzzfeed, among others. Monsoon Mansion was her debut memoir.

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