Thanks go out to our wonderful 2013 sponsors!
FCBF official booksellers:
The 2013 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Last Child in the Woods and the Nature Priniciple by Richard Louv at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 22-24 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Author Biography
Lester Smith is a former sheet-metal worker turned professional game designer turned educational writer. Along the way he has served as a National Guard medic, acquired a Practical Nursing license, taught college-level English, won some poetry awards, served as president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and launched the micropublishing house Popcorn Press. He is currently writing a horror roleplaying game for Signal Fire Studios and researching to complete a Byronic mashup of Well’s The Time Machine and Dante’s Divine Comedy as a sonnet novel.
Additional Information
Representatives of five Wisconsin presses will speak about their missions, philosophies and processes of publishing from selection to final draft. You’ll learn how authors are chosen (or turned down). You’ll discover the press’ obligation to author and the author’s obligation to the press from money to marketing to mailing out books.
This session will be facilitated by Karla Huston. Participants include:
- Judy Bridges, Redbird Studios
- Wendy Vardaman, Cowfeather Press and Verse Wisconsin
- Sarah Busse, Cowfeather Press and Verse Wisconsin
- Lester Smith, Popcorn Press
- Laura Damon-Moore, Parallel Press
- Kate Thompson, Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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