S245. CANCELLED: Small Press Success: A Business Primer for Both Authors and Publishers

Status: Not Accepted

Room 304, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

Small presses are a vital wellspring of emerging and underrepresented voices, but the financial challenges of running a small press are as present as ever. The successful release requires a savvy, creative, and efficient approach from both publisher and author. Publishers from both independent and institutional presses will discuss the benefits and limitations of small press publishing, and offer insider knowledge on how to best produce and market an author’s book while remaining solvent.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Small_Press_Success_Outline.docx

Participants

Moderator:

William Todd Seabrook is the author of four novellas-in-flash including The Imagination of Lewis Carroll, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and The Genius of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He earned his PhD at Florida State University, and is the coeditor of The Cupboard Pamphlet, a prose chapbook press.

Deena Drewis is the founder and editor of Nouvella, an independent press dedicated to novella-length works of fiction. Nouvella titles have been the recipients of a National Jewish Book Award and an Amazon Best Book of the Month and have helped launch the career of authors Emma Straub and Edan Lepucki.

Abigail Beckel is the publisher of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publishing house for books in hybrid genres that she cofounded in 2006. She is a published poet and prose writer, as well as co-editor of two anthologies.

James Brubaker is the author of The Taxidermist's Catalog, Black Magic Death Sphere: (science) fictions, Liner Notes, and Pilot Season. He is associate professor of writing at Southeast Missouri State University, where he also directs the Univesity's press and edits the journal Big Muddy.

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