Apr. 24, 2010 - Publishing Workshop and Book Signing with Anne Clinard Barnhill

A second installment of the popular publishing workshop begun last month at Literary Bookpost will continue on Saturday, April 24^th, beginning at 1:30 p.m.  This time around the workshop will be led by Anne Clinard Barnhill.  Barnhill holds an MFA degree from UNC Wilmington, and over the last twenty years she has published articles, book and theater reviews, poetry and short stories.  Barnhill is the author of the memoir At Home in the Land of Oz:  Autism, My Sister and Me, published in 2007 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, and the book of short stories What You Long For, published by Main Street Rag Publishing in 2009.  She has recently signed a two-book contract with St. Martin’s Press; her first historical novel, tentatively entitled The Queen’s Whore, will be published with them in 2011.

Barnhill’s installment of the publishing workshop will focus on “dealing with rejection” from publishers and agents.  Just as in the first workshop, at the conclusion of Barnhill’s presentation, the floor will be open for questions and solutions to all phases of the problems the publishing process can involve.  Participants need not have attended the first workshop to benefit from what Barnhill will discuss and cover in this one, and in the Q & A Barnhill will cover any topics her audience wishes to discuss.

Barnhill will also read from her body of works, concentrating on her recent short story collection, and will conclude the afternoon with a book signing.  Both her memoir and her short story collection will be available at the workshop.