Marketplace Keynote: 'The Strategic Writer' FULL
Moderators
Journalist and Publishing Consultant
Porter Anderson ( @Porter_Anderson ) BA, MA, MFA, is a journalist, speaker, and consultant specializing in book publishing. Formerly with CNN, the Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and other media, he is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives, founded by Frankfurt Book Fair...
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Speakers
Author, SOPHIA
Michael Bible is the author of the novel SOPHIA and the novella COWBOY MALONEY'S ELECTRIC CITY. His work has appeared in the Oxford American, The Paris Review Daily, ESPN: the Magazine, New York Tyrant, and he's a regular contributor to The Towner. He earned his MFA from The University...
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Author, LEADING MEN
Christopher Castellani's fourth novel, Leading Men, is forthcoming from Viking in February 2019. He is also the author of The Art of Perspective, a collection of essays on point of view in fiction, and three other novels. Christopher works as artistic director of GrubStreet, was a...
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Director of IngramSpark, Ingram Content Group
As the Director of IngramSpark at Ingram Content Group, Robin is committed to helping independent publishers easily get their content into the hands of readers around the globe. To help make this happen, she leads the development of IngramSpark and continues to support and refine...
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Author, THE DANGERS OF AN ORDINARY NIGHT
Lynne Reeves Griffin is a writer, editor, and family counselor. Her recent novels include Dark Rivers to Cross and The Dangers of an Ordinary Night, published by Crooked Lane Books. Lynne regularly appears as a media guest expert to discuss contemporary family life and preventive...
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Author, EVERYTHING HERE IS BEAUTIFUL
Mira T. Lee’s debut novel, Everything Here Is Beautiful, is forthcoming from Viking/Penguin in January 2018. Her stories have appeared in the Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Missouri Review, Triquarterly, and American Short Fiction. She has been awarded the Missouri...
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Publicist, Broadside PR
Whitney Peeling's in-house publicity career began (while the ink on her college diploma dried) at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, continued at W.W. Norton, and concluded at PublicAffairs, where she was the Director of Publicity for four years. Travel throughout India; work with one of...
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Chief Diversity Officer, UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care
Deborah L. Plummer, PhD is a psychologist, university professor, diversity thought leader, author, and speaker on topics central to racial equality, inclusion, and mutual respect.Her groundbreaking and timely book, Some of My Friends Are…The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits...
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Author, THE FORGOTTEN HOURS
Katrin Schumann is the bestselling author of the novels The Forgotten Hours and This Terrible Beauty (Lake Union), as well as multiple collaborative nonfiction titles. Her work has been featured on TODAY, NPR, and in The London Times, among others. She co-developed The Launch Lab...
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Co-founder, Broadside PR
Michael Taeckens' twenty-one years in the publishing industry include roles as the long-time publicity director at Algonquin Books and the marketing director at Graywolf Press; since 2014 he has been working independently. Past and present clients include the Whiting Foundation/Whiting...
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Publisher, SixOneSeven Books
Michelle Toth is the author of Annie Begins and founder of SixOneSeven Books, a small press based in Boston which she runs together with Andrew Goldstein, author of The Bookie’s Son. Established with the idea of “writers publishing writers,” SixOneSeven Books’ titles include...
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