Next up in our Demystifying Publishing Series, the Society of Midland Authors Presents…
Choosing and Negotiating with Publishers: Insights on Finding the Right Publisher and Getting a Fair Deal
- WHEN: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
- ZOOM LINK: https://uic.zoom.us/j/83294837491?pwd=oRpwosj6tEyZT0aZ1dSR17AOrYjPTz.1https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89302354226?pwd=DkET7ZzB9d8o57SuQ4rD6UWej74um2.1
- COST: Free and open to all.
- RECORDING OF EVENT: Check back for link after the event.
Join us for a free, enlightening virtual panel on finding and choosing the right publisher for your work and negotiating a fair deal.
Wally Podrazik, moderator, VP of th SMA board, teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and is co-author of nine books. The latest is Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, just released from Syracuse University Press.
Marlene Targ Brill, moderator, is an award-winning author of more than 70 books for readers of all ages. She’s had extensive experience with several different types of publishers. Find her at marlenetargbrill.com.
Sylvia Frank Rodrigue acquires history and criminology books for SIU Press. Through her business, Sylverlining, she coaches authors and copyedits nonfiction and fiction manuscripts. She was editor-in-chief at LSU Press, associate editor at Stackpole Books, and coauthor of Images of America: Baton Rouge.
Steve Baron counsels businesses on intellectual property matters and helps clients resolve complex commercial disputes. His experience includes protecting and advising on trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, defamation, privacy, right of publicity, advertising, and marketing. Steve represents media and entertainment clients’ best interests in federal and state courts, administrative tribunals, arbitrations, and mediations. He works with publishers, authors, podcasters, advertising and marketing agencies, graphic artists, recording companies and recording artists, information technology businesses, and other businesses with intellectual property and publishing issues at Baron Harris Healy law firm and Lawyers for the Creative Arts.
To learn more, contact moderators Marlene Targ Brill: [email protected] or Walter Podrazik: [email protected].