Ever wonder what happens after you finish your thesis? What’s the difference between academic and trade publishing? How would you expand the ideas to create a nonfiction book? How would you find an agent, publisher, audience? How could publishing a book help my academic career or launch a whole new one?
This panel of publishing industry insiders talks about the ways in which nonfiction books are developed, sold and marketed. It tackles the basics about the different types of offerings and what editors are looking for in nonfiction books. You’ll get insight into how to research the marketplace, develop an idea, and become a published author. Brought you to by the Center for Nonfiction and moderated by its founding director, Kevin O’Connor CC ‘ 92, A’Lelia Bundles Scholar, Cohort VII. RSVP is required.
Panelists:
-Reiko Davis, agent at DeFiore and Associates
-Yahdon Israel, editor at Simon & Schuster and creator of the Literaryswag book community
-Rachel Kambury, assistant editor at Twelve
-Pronoy Sarkar, senior editor at Little, Brown
