S108. Books That Make a Difference: Hudson Whitman 5th Anniversary Reading

Marquis Salon 3 & 4, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
Saturday, February 11, 2017
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

This panel of Hudson Whitman authors—first-time and established—will read from their books, demonstrating that a small independent press—devoted to books on nursing, health care, education, and the military—can be a smart, vibrant, and alternative publisher of socially relevant nonfiction.


Participants

Moderator:

Susan Petrie is managing director of Hudson Whitman/Excelsior College Press, and has worked in book publishing/printing twenty years. She's done pretty much every job in the house—acquisitions and contracts, production, marketing, publicity, sales and distribution, print + e., and worked in a bookstore, too!

Thomas Larson is the author of The Saddest Music Ever Written and The Memoir and the Memoirist and a staff writer for the San Diego Reader. He teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. His latest book is The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease.

Amy Ryan is the author of SHOT: Staying Alive with Diabetes, a memoir about living with the daily challenges of a chronic disease that has no cure. Amy is also a lawyer who helps disease-specific foundations form innovative collaborations to develop new therapies for patients.

William B. Patrick has published Saving Troy: A Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City, We Didn't Come Here for This (a memoir in poetry), and Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family, which won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges award for fiction. His most recent book is The Call of Nursing.

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