This workshop will provide an overview of the publishing industry from the perspective of an author, a bookseller, and a publisher. You'll learn which publishing path may be right for you: self-publishing, small press or "Big 5." You'll learn book distribution and discounting models, how to approach a local bookstore, how to tell a good deal from a bad one. It's a crash course in publishing for writers.

Steve Mitchell, a writer and journalist, has published in CRAFT Literary, Passengers Journal, entropy, december magazine, Southeast Review, among others. His novel, Cloud Diary, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53 and a new collection, The Reason the Dress is Yellow, is forthcoming from Press 53. He is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize, the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize, and the Alex Albright Creative Non-Fiction Prize. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC, and General Editor at Scuppernong Editions. Find him at: www.clouddiary.org