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Aug 27,2012
Celebrate Indiana’s rich literary tradition with activities for writers and book lovers of all ages!
INDY AUTHOR FAIR
Central Library
40 East St. Clair Street
Downtown Indianapolis
Saturday, September 29, 2012
10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
CLICK HERE for the event brochure, which lists the complete line-up of workshops and related events.
Presented by the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, a program of The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation; The Indianapolis Public Library and The Writers’ Center of Indiana.
FREE and open to the public!
LIBRARIANS: Several of these free workshops are eligible for General Library Education Units. There is no need to register to attend.
Meet the Authors, Part One: 1 LEU
Meet the Authors, Part Two: 1 LEU
Getting Published: 2 LEUs
Marketing Your Mystery: 2 LEUs
The Unique Art of Marketing Poetry: 2 LEUs
Writing and Selling a Picture Book: 2 LEUs
Marketing Your Book: 2 LEUs
Writing a Book Proposal: 2 LEUs
The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Self-Publishing: 2 LEUs
Get Started!: 2 LEUs
Indy Author Fair
Participating Authors
12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Simon Reading Room and R.B. Annis West Reading Room
Marie Albertson: “Old Librarians Never Die, They Jump Out of Airplanes”
(2012) Hawthorne Publishing
Mary Anne Barothy: “Day At a Time: An Indiana Girl’s Sentimental Journey to Doris Day’s Hollywood and Beyond”
(2007) Hawthorne Publishing
Elsa Bethanis: ” Dada and Surrealism for Beginners”
(2007) Writers and Readers (imprint of Random House)
John Bower: “The Common Good”
(2010) Studio Indiana
Georgia Gianakos Buchanan: “428 1/2: My Journey Beyond the Railroad Tracks”
(2012) IBJ Custom Publishing
David Carlson: “Peace Be With You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World”
(2011) Thomas Nelson
Odette Chase: “This Child’s War: A World War II Memoir”
(2004) Red Bud Publishing Co.
D. DelReverda-Jennings: “Horizon: Contemporary Indiana Artists of Color”
(2012) DelReverda-Jennings LLC., Publishing
Phil Dunlap: “Cotton’s Law”
(2012) Berkley Books
Majie Failey: “We Never Danced Cheek to Cheek: The Young Kurt Vonnegut in Indianapolis and Beyond”
(2011) Hawthorne Publishing
Tricia Fields: “The Territory”
(2011) Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press
Joanna Foreman: “Ghostly Hauntings of Interstate 65″
(2011) Lulu.com
Valiska Gregory: “Shirley’s Wonderful Baby”
(2002) HarperCollins
Gordon Grindsaff: “Those Were the Days”
(2011) AuthorHouse
Tim Harmon: “A Day in the Life of A Very Bad Person”
(2011) Restoration Press
Monika Herzig: “David Baker: A Legacy in Music”
(2012) Indiana University Press
David Hoppe and Kristin Hess: “Food For Thought: An Indiana Harvest”
(2012) IBJ Publishing
Terri Horvath and Dennis E. Horvath: “Indiana Cars”
(2000) Hoosier Auto Show
Christopher Katsoropoulos: “Antiphony”
(2011) Luminis Books
Lucy Jane King, M.D. and Alan D. Schmetzer, M.D.: “Dr. Edenharter’s Dream”
(2012) Hawthorne Publishing
Norbert Krapf: “Songs in Sepia and Black and White”
(2012) Indiana University Press
Carrol Krause: “Showers Brothers Furniture Company: The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a City and a University”
(2012) Indiana University Press
Jason Lantzer: “Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America’s Majority Faith”
(2012) New York University Press
Daniel Lee: “The Belgian Hammer: Forging Young Americans Into Professional Cyclists”
(2011) Breakaway Books
R. Rathbone Leonard: “My Summer as a Cub”
(2011) AuthorHouse
Vera Sonja Maass: Finding Love That Lasts: Breaking the Pattern of Dead End Relationships”
(2012) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Bonnie Maurer: “Reconfigured”
(2009) Finishing Line Press
Kevin McKelvey: “Dream Wilderness”
(2010) Finishing Line Press
Margaret McMullan: “Sources of Light”
(2010) Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Diana Medler: “Dobbin and the Stardust Trail”
(2009) Good Sound Publishing
Susan Moreno, Marci Wheeler and Kealah Parkinson: “The Partner’s Guide to Asperger Syndrome”
(2011) Jessica Kingsley Press
Duane Nickell: “Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across America”
(2010) Rutgers University Press
Richard Pflum: “Some Poems to Read Aloud, New and Selected Poems”
(2012) Chatter House Press
Tracy Richardson: “Indian Summer”
(2010) Luminis Books
Rita Rose: “World’s Tallest Woman: The Giantess of Shelbyville High”
(2008) Hawthorne Publishing
Richard Schneirov: “Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics and Democracy During the Civil War and Reconstruction”
(2012) University of Illinois Press
Mary Sexson: “103 in the Light: Selected Poems, 1996-2000″
(2004) Restoration Press
Sisters in Crime, Indiana Chapter: “Bedlam at the Brickyard”
(2009) Cardinal Publishing
Larry Sweazy: “The Devil’s Bones”
(2012) Five Star (Cengage/Gale)
BOOK CLUB information
The Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award offers a number of ways for book clubs to get involved.
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featured SPONSORS
Sponsorships are now available for the 2013 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award!
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As an Indiana author who has published 11 books, including 3 novels, how do I get invited to this meeting?
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Why isn’t Rebecca Kai Dotlich (Carmel) part of your line-up? She is a talented children’s poet with work worthy of literary appreciation.
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Free Workshops for Authors at the 2012 Indy Author Fair | Lafayette Writers Group
[...] This event is free and open to the public! A full schedule of events and a list of participating authors and presenters is available at the website: http://www.indianaauthorsaward.org/2012/08/september-29-indy-author-fair-schedule-announced/ [...]
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The Library and the Library Foundation work with The Writers’ Center of Indiana to identify presenters for the programs, however registration for the Indy Author Fair book sales and signings was open to the general public. Our deadline to sign up for the 2012 event has passed, but registration for the 2013 event will likely open in early June of next year.
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Our deadline to sign up for the 2012 event has passed, but registration for the 2013 event will likely open in early June of next year. You are more than welcome to attend any and all of the workshops and come and network with the authors.
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