Professional Publishing Seminars
 

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 JOHNSON is 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.