Join 1455 for a special Virginia Festival of the Book event featuring Courtney Maum and her book Before and After the Book Deal.
Acclaimed author Courtney Maum shares everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask, in conversation with 1455’s Founder and Executive Director, Sean Murphy. Her funny, candid guide, Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book, has over 150 contributors from all walks of the industry, including international bestselling authors Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, Garth Greenwell, Lisa Ko, R. O. Kwon, Rebecca Makkai, and Ottessa Moshfegh, alongside cult favorites Sarah Gerard, Melissa Febos, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Mira Jacob. Agents, film scouts, film producers, translators, disability and minority activists, and power agents and editors also weigh in, offering advice and sharing intimate anecdotes about even the most taboo topics in the industry.
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Event Details
March 13 | 4:00 PM EST | FREE EVENT
This event is presented as part of the 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book‘s Virginia Writing & Publishing series, hosted by these writing centers and organizations across Virginia: 1455 Literary Arts, James River Writers, The Muse, Randolph College MFA Program, Watershed Lit, and WriterHouse.
1455’s author events are free, but you can make a donation to support us in offering accessible programming.
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About COURTNEY MAUM
Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre (a GOOP book club pick and one of Glamour Magazine’s top books of the decade), I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and Touch (a New York Times Editor’s Choice and NPR Best Book of the Year selection), the popular guidebook Before and After the Book Deal: A writer’s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book, and the forthcoming memoir, The Year of the Horses. A nominee for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, Courtney’s writing has been widely published in such outlets as the New York Times, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and her short story This is Not Your Fault was turned into an Audible Original at Amazon. Courtney is the founder of the collaborative retreat program, The Cabins and she has a creativity advice newsletter you can sign up for at CourtneyMaum.com
About Virginia Festival of the Book
The 2021 Virginia Festival of the Book is presented March 13-26, 2021, with on-demand videos available after all live events. For more information and the full Festival schedule, visit VaBook.org. The Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of Virginia Humanities.
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