February Third Thursday: Building a Career as a Writer

For early-career writers, the focus is almost entirely on getting that first book published: finishing the book, finding an agent, selling it, working with editors, doing book events. But what happens after you get everything you want? You’ll write a second book, a third, and so on. What will that work look like? How will your career begin to develop? What can new authors be thinking about now so that they’re set up for a long, fruitful career? When your career hits a rough patch, how can you respond. This panel will feature two highly experienced authors and a newer author with small-house publishing credits, all of them talking about what authors need to know to keep doing what they love (and getting paid for it) over the long run.