As part of the Central Appalachian Network’s Big Ideas Festival, I’ll be running a *free* workshop on “Writing & Publishing Your Big Idea.” You can sign up here. There’s lots of other awesome workshops, roundtables, and keynotes too, check em out (Building a Community History Museum!? Quilting & Community Land Trusts?! Dom Flemons on Appalachian Music Appreciation?!). Here’s my workshop description:
Do you have a brilliant book inside you, waiting to be born? A manuscript you’re proud of but don’t know how to sell? A general curiosity about how the publishing industry works? Join me for a crash course on what it takes to write and publish a book, all the way from idea to proposal to manuscript delivery. I’ll speak from the perspective of a writer in the trenches myself, and also as an acquisitions editor who finds and secures new book projects for a publishing house, West Virginia University Press. While there will be a slight emphasis on nonfiction, most of the content of this workshop will be just as relevant for writers of fiction and poetry. The goal here is to demystify the writing and publishing processes so that your Big Idea can find its way onto the page and into the hands of readers.