Lean in, Pivot, Adapt: Managing Your Publishing Career for The Long Run
with author Teresa Robeson
Unless your plan is "one and done," most writers are thinking of writing as a long-term career.
But the publishing path is windy, bumpy, full of potholes and there is no definitive GPS or map to guide you. Navigating it is sometimes like driving on a foggy mountain road at night with your headlights out. The best that you can do is look at how others before you have made the journey and use that as a guide. Teresa Robeson, an ALA Youth Media Award Picture Book Winner, will share how she navigates that path, avoiding potential quicksand, dodging poison arrows, and growing a backbone in addition. She hopes that what she learned will be of use to you as you go on your own epic publishing journey.
This webinar purchase includes lifetime access to the 95-minute video, transcript, and downloadable audio track.
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Teresa Ho Robeson is an (APALA) American Library Association’s Youth Media Picture Book Award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction books on science, nature, and her own culture. Her work includes QUEEN OF PHYSICS: HOW WU CHIEN SHIUNG HELPED UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE ATOM (illus. Rebecca Huang) and the upcoming WHO SMASHED HOLLYWOOD BARRIERS WITH GUNG FU? BRUCE LEE (Penguin Workshop; illus. Ryan Inzana) among a number of other picture books and middle-grade books.
Besides writing, she has served as a mentor to Queer Kidlit and often donates critiques to kid lit writing contests for newer writers.
Teresa lives with her family on 27-acres in rural Indiana where they grow and forage much of their own food. She relaxes by birding, creating art, keeping up with science, making marmalade and jellies, knitting, baking, and trying to impress the chickens with her bilingualism. Learn more about her at teresarobeson.com.
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