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In our Fall 2024 first Quarter Office Hours, Heather and Maggie will be joined by Jessie Glenn, Director of Mindbuck Media Book Publicity, and Deborah Jayne, Mindbuck Publicity Specialist in queries, proposals, and publishing, and they will discuss the best publicity tactics for emerging and aspiring authors.

Jessie will give us an overview of the objectives and specifics of author social media, the concept and purpose of Literary Citizenship, the steps between finishing a manuscript and submitting it to agents and publishers, and the value of publishing short pieces.

Deborah will discuss how authors can make themselves more attractive to agents and publishers through self promotion, literary accolades, and connections within the literary community. She will also discuss how to avoid common pitfalls when querying and pitching, and how to create a proposal package that will spark interest within the publishing marketplace.

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A.

Jessie Glenn is the director of Mindbuck Media Book Publicity (established in 2006), and is also an essayist with clips in NYT, Salon, WaPo, and elsewhere. Jessie has taught publicity at Portland State University’s Masters in Publishing program and has had Mindbuck Media’s publicity work highlighted in Poets & Writers magazine, AWP, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere.

Deborah Jayne has an MA in Publishing from Portland State University, and is a literary editor and publicist with nearly twenty years of experience in the publishing industry. Former director of publicity at Tin House Books and special sales manager at Timber Press, Deborah now focuses on freelance work, often specializing in the creation of proposal packages and query letters.