An Interview with Keynote Speaker Chuck Sambuchino The Writers’ League of Texas 2013 Agents and Editors Conference is only a couple months away. This year, WLT managed to nab Chuck Sambuchino, everything extraordinaire, for the Keynote Luncheon. He’s done it all folks — writing, editing, publishing, agents. He’s the
October’s Third Thursday Wrap-Up Author’s Guide to PR and Marketing: On Your Own, But Not Alone By Lexie Smith Marketing your book is like life. Ultimately you’re responsible for how you live your life, but you don’t have to live it alone. Unless you want to, in which case you’ll
By Lexi Smith September’s Third Thursday program took us “Behind the Publishing House Curtain” with two booksellers and a publicist. Gillian Redfearn is a Key Account Manager for MacMillian Publishing, Gianna La Morte is a Sales Manager at UT Press, and Colleen Devine Ellis is the Publicity Manager at UT
As always, we had a great time at Third Thursday, this time with a panel on preparing yourself for publishing. One of our panelists, the lovely and talented Rhiannon Frater, was inspired to continue the conversation! Thank you for the lovely evening last night. I had a lot of fun!
Writing isn’t always about imagination and fancy adjectives. Sometimes it’s about sharing information, plain and simple. Today’s guest post comes to us from Mary Forlenza, a senior marketing writer and editor in Austin. We hope her words of advise will appeal to all you practical writers out there! – Sara
Although meeting and mingling with agents is one of the biggest parts of WLT’s Agents Conference, there’s much more than just that! One of the other exciting options that the Agents Conference offers is introducing attendees to some of the country’s top editors, who will share their valuable expertise on
The Writers’ League of Texas opens the book on a new year with “Building a Book,” a yearlong series of monthly programs in which authors and publishing professionals explore how a book evolves.
Timothy Egan has a great rant on the Joe the Plumber/Sarah Palin book deals in today’s New York Times. Can’t wait to see what he has to say about the fourth-grader who landed a deal for something called How to Talk to Girls. We just can’t make this stuff up!
