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.
Laura is the Youth Services Librarian for the Edgerton Public Library in Edgerton, Wisconsin, and is a co-founder and project manager for the Library as Incubator Project, an organization that promotes and facilitates connections between writers, artists, performers, and libraries.
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Kate Thompson has more than twenty years’ experience in book publishing. A Door County native, she gained publishing experience in Minnesota and the East Coast before returning to her home state in 1999. As senior editor for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, she acquires manuscripts and develops, edits, and promotes books on Wisconsin history and culture.
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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
A crash course in finding an agent or a publisher for your novel or book-length memoir. We will cover the query letter, the synopsis, and the best resources for researching agents and editors. Handouts/samples will be provided.
Karla Huston has published poetry, reviews and interviews in many national journals including 5 A.M., Margie, North American Review, One Trick Pony, Pearl, Poet Lore, Rattle and others. Her poem “Theory of Lipstick” was awarded a Pushcart Prize and appears in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2012).
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.
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Judy Bridges is the author of Shut Up & Write! and the founder of Redbird Studio writing center in Milwaukee, WI, where she offered 3-5 workshops a week and mentored hundreds of published writers.She is currently working on a collection of family stories titled, You Drive, You're too Drunk to Sing.
If you participated in the 2013 Fox Cities Book Festival, we would love to get your feedback. Please take a moment to complete this brief survey. Thank you!
Big thanks go to Atlas Coffee Mill for hosting monthly meetings for the Fox Cities Book Festival Board! We appreciate your support of the Festival and just can't thank you enough for providing a welcoming meeting space for us to plan and dream.