Publishing Symposium
Bringing Your Work Into the World
Join us for a week devoted to the business of writing. Professional insiders will give you tips on industry trends, publishing, legal information, and marketing. Choose one or more workshops according to your interests. No auditors. Maximum enrollment: 50. Minimum age: 18.
Week 6 (July 28 – August 1, 2008), Monday – Friday, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. (in the ballroom at the Literary Arts Center – Alumni Hall – 2nd floor)
Schedule for the week:
Monday – Trends in the Publishing Industry – Bob Hoover
Tuesday – The Realities of Publishing Your Novel – Syd Goldsmith
Wednesday – The Small Publisher in the Big World – Philip Brady
Thursday – What Every Author Needs to Know About Publishing and the Law – James Gregorio
Friday – Marketing Yourself from Submission to Publication – Caroline Gregorio
Bob Hoover, the book editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has been reporting and commenting on both the creative and commercial side of writing for 20 years. As editor of the newspaper’s Sunday book section, he oversees the section’s mix of criticism and news, and writes reviews and a column. Hoover also reports on the lively literary scene in Pittsburgh, and has interviewed many of the nation’s major writers, poets and historians.
Syd Goldsmith’s first novel, Jade Phoenix, was a finalist for a New Voices in Literature Award, and BookReview named it a "Must Read!” selection, calling it “an exemplar of the historical novel: a book that portrays its era with the same detail and sensitivity as the characters that live in it." Goldsmith has also been a diplomat, concert flutist, adviser to Chinese and multinational companies, and speaker at the Chautauqua Amphitheater.
Philip Brady, who is also teaching a poetry workshop this week, is the author of By Heart: Reflections of a Rust-Belt Bard, forthcoming from University of Tennessee Press. He is also the author of three books of poems and a memoir. His work has been awarded five Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, a Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, a Thayer Fellowship, and residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, Hawthornden Castle, the Headlands, and Fundacion Valparaiso. He directs the Youngstown State University Poetry Center and Etruscan Press, and plays in the New-Celtic band, Brady's Leap.
James Gregorio received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and is an associate with Sparrow Wolf & Dennis PA in Greensboro, NC. His primary areas of practice are Corporate and Entertainment Law and he serves as outside counsel to the Literary Department of the Endeavor Agency. From 2000 to 2005, he was a Business Affairs executive with International Creative Management (ICM) in Manhattan. Previously, he received a B.A. in Theatre from SUNY Fredonia and worked as an audio and lighting technician for the Martha Graham Dance Company, the New York City Opera, the Chautauqua Institution, and other organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Humane Society of New York.
Caroline Gregorio, a graduate of Barnard College, has worked as an editorial assistant at Basic Books, and an assistant to a literary agent at International Creative Management (ICM). After several years at ICM, she became a subsidiary rights manager at St. Martin's Press, marketing and selling paperback rights to other publishing houses and book excerpts to newspapers and magazines across the country. She also coordinated with the publicity, marketing, and editorial departments within St. Martin's Press on how best to position each book in the marketplace. She currently offers freelance editing and marketing advice to aspiring writers.
