Description
How Books Find Readers:
From Book Review to Bookshop, Bookstagram to Book Rep, Women Leading the Way
Thursday, October 22nd at 7:30pm
This will be a remote panel discussing the many avenues authors, publishers, librarians and booksellers can take to find the right audience for every book.
More details and registration on eventbrite here: //www.eventbrite.com/e/how-books-find-readers-tickets-125394687887
Panelists include:
Ronnie Kutys is a Manager, Sales at HarperCollins. She began her publishing career in Northern Kentucky at Clerisy Press (part of AdventureKEEN) as an intern during college. Ronnie started at HarperCollins as a Sales Associate and in the past few years has taken on a more events-focused role. She acts as a liaison between the sales department and publicity to expand the company’s event program. Ronnie has been with HarperCollins for just over six years.
Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, Is This Tomorrow, Cruel Beautiful World and her latest, With or Without You (Algonquin Books). A book critic for People Magazine and AARP, she is the co-founder with Jenna Blum of A Mighty Blaze, and is also a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow and a finalist in last years Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Pilot and Feature film. Longlisted for the Maine reader’s Prize and on many Best Books of the Year lists for her novels, she teaches writing online at both Stanford and UCLA Writers Program Extension and works with private clients. Her work has appeared in Salon, the Manifest-Station, New York Times’ Modern Love, New York magazine, The Daily Beast and she has a column/blog at Psychology Today. www.carolineleavitt.com
Amy Mikel, Director of Customer Experience at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full Bio to come.
