The Joy of Working with Small Publishers

Dates: September 15-21, 2003
Instructor: Velda Brotherton
Moderator: Stephanie Lynch
Cost: Free to FTHRW members; $5.00 for all others

Course Description:

This week-long workshop will focus on getting books published in both the fiction and non-fiction field through small publishers, and the difference in working with these publishers and big NY publishing houses. The workshop will also include information about research, querying small publishers, and how fiction and non fiction writing can go hand in hand when building a career. Sorry, but this workshop will not cover publishers that are exclusively e-book publishers.

About the Instructor:

Though always interested in creative writing, Velda Brotherton (www.writerpages.com/veldabrotherton)waited until her two children grew up and began families of their own before she seriously began to write. Her articles, short stories and novels have since been published in newspapers, magazines and book form. From 1994 through 1997 Topaz published four of her western historical romances under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Gregg. Two more followed with Leisure under the name of Samantha Lee. For the past ten years she has written an Ozark's Lore column for a local weekly newspaper. In the past year her writing career has turned yet another corner. With the assistance of a new agent, she is marketing a mainstream about a woman caught in mid-life crisis and the unique way in which she solves her dilemma. Brotherton continues to write historical romance, and is currently working on a trilogy about the Victorians who settled in Kansas in the 1870s. Brotherton is a member of From The Heart Romance Writers.