Rob Simbeck: The Book Business for Writers
Where: Bookman/Bookwoman Rare & Used Books
When: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 23
So you went and wrote a book, eh? Authors can tell you horror stories aplenty about editors who don’t edit, PR departments that don’t publicize and having to turn themselves into self-branding machines across social media just to place their books in readers’ hands. “It’s obvious the Internet and social media have transformed the marketplace of ideas,” Rob Simbeck says. “Anyone can publish words and photographs. But being a writer who can make a living working with existing publishers — a world that has also changed irrevocably — is another matter. There are still gatekeepers, and it helps to know how to approach and work with them successfully.”
Here to help is Simbeck, a longtime Scene contributor, veteran journalist and author, ghost writer or editor of more than 20 books (including the widely read Cornelia Fort biography Daughter of the Air), who shares hard-won advice on self-publishing, working with publishers big and small, working for hire, and other nuts-and-bolts concerns of the trade. This event is free and open to the public.
