New
Rochelle Public Library
Professional Publishing Seminars
One Library Plaza, New Rochelle, New York 10801-9998
Maximum participants: Auditorium capacity
Consecutive Tuesday evenings 6:30p � 8:00p
Start date: May 5, 2009
Program cost: Free to the Public
PROGRAM OUTLINE:
Week 1
May 5 Writing Bringing Your Voice to the Page (Betty
Anne Jackson, Harlem Writers Guild)
Week 2
May 12 Editing The Element Of Style: Revising and
Proofreading (Betty Anne Jackson)
Week 3
May 19 Publishing How Publishing Works (Reeshemah
Brightley)
Week 4
May 26 Submission The Manuscript Review (Max Rodriguez,
HBF Publishing)
Week 5
June 2 Marketing Getting the Word Out: Marketing and PR
(Troy Johnson, AALBC.com)
FACILITATORS:
BETTY ANNE JACKSON is an author and copy editor
and a retired teacher, curriculum developer, and remedial
reading
specialist. She facilitates training in Poetry, Short Story,
Fiction, and Non-Fiction and in Essay and Creative Writing.
She is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild.
MONICA HARRIS quickly distinguished herself in the
publishing world after graduating from Carnegie Mellon
University with a double major in Literary & Cultural
Studies and Professional Writing. Harris spent her first
three years at Dell Publishing working with mass-market
novels and trade non-fiction. She then joined Kensington
Publishing where she founded and edited Arabesque, the first
African American romance series by a major publisher. Harris
edited non-fiction books at Carol Publishing Group before
she responded to a request from Doubleday to launch Black
Expressions, the first African American direct mail book
club. Black Expressions is one of the most popular direct
mail book clubs in the country.
REESHEMAH BRIGHTLEY: Bio TK
MAX RODRIGUEZ is the Founder and Publisher of QBR
The Black Book Review, the national literary review that
features writers of the African Diaspora. He is Founder and
Director of the Harlem Book Fair, the nation's largest
African American book festival, held annually in New York
City, Hartford, CT, Freeport, LI, and other cities
nationally. He is publisher of HBF Publishing, a print on
demand authoring collaboration with Author Solutions, Inc.,
targeted to African American and Latino readers and writers.
Mr. Rodriguez is the author of Sacred Fire: The QBR 100
Essential Black Books (John Wiley & Sons, 1999) and is the
editor of the QBR website (www.QBR.com). He has been
inducted into the Writer's Hall of Fame at Chicago State
University for his pioneering work in the advocacy of
African American literature and literacy.
TROY JOHNSONis a technology expert and industry
leader in marketing books on the World Wide Web. Mr. Johnson
is the founder and Webmaster of AALBC.com, LLC (The African
American Literature Book Club). AALBC.com was launched in
1998, and is now the largest and most frequently visited web
site dedicated to books by African American authors. He has
made numerous radio and television appearances, including
C-Span2's Book TV. Johnson is a frequent panelist and public
speaker. His subjects and events include lecturing on
�Success Strategies for the African American Book Market�;
�Distribution and the Internet�; �Using the Internet to
Advance Art� at Howard University; and �Get the Word Out:
Marketing and PR� at the Small Press Center's Third Annual
New York Round Table Writers� Conference. Mr. Johnson holds
a BS in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, an
MS from Polytechnic University, and an MBA from New York
University's Stern School of Business.