Can My Book Cross Over to a Mainstream Audience?
Should I Get a Literary Agent?
Strategic Workshop for Faculty
- How can I tell if my book has mass appeal?
- How do I write for a sophisticated lay audience?
- How do I find the right agent?
- What will an agent do for me?
- How do I get media attention for my work?
On Friday, November 16, Rebecca Sestili, Author-Publisher Liaison, welcomes Dr. Carole Sargent, Director of Georgetown University’s Office of Scholarly Publications. She joins us on campus for a morning publishing workshop to share her experience working with Georgetown’s faculty on these topics and to answer your questions. You'll leave the workshop with a good idea of how take your book to mainstream readers and how to bring media attention to you and your work.
When: Friday, November 16, 2012, 10:00 to noon.
Where: Michigan Union, Welker Room
Who should come: Faculty at any level are encouraged to attend. The workshop is highly suitable for authors interested in reaching a broad audience.
RSVP to rsestili@umich.edu by November 9, 2012
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR: Carole Sargent, Ph.D. is Director of Scholarly Publications at Georgetown University, where she was previously on the English Department faculty. Her two books with Farrar, Straus & Giroux received attention in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and on "60 Minutes," NPR and CNN, among many others. She leads a workshop, “Public Intellectual,” for faculty authors at Georgetown, and she has brought literary agents from William Morris Endeavor, Trident Media, and ICM to campus. Her office has been profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education and featured in Change. She welcomes your questions or thoughts before the workshop, booklab@georgetown.edu.
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