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The Portable Writers Conference: Your Guide to Getting Published
More than 45 agent, editor, and author-written chapters--called workshops in the book--provide instruction on the writing craft and the business of getting published.
- GenresWriting
426 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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About the author
Stephen Blake Mettee
4 books6 followersStephen Blake Mettee, is co-founder of Hummingbird Digital Media (HummingbirdDM.com) a tech startup that is democratizing e-book and audiobook retailing.
He's the founder of Quill Driver Books and The Write Thought (TheWriteThought.com) is the author of The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal and the editor of The Portable Writers’ Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published and The American Directory of Writer’s Guidelines.
All are Writers Digest Book Club selections. The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal has been adopted for use in a number of university publishing courses.
During his fifteen years at the helm of Quill Driver Books, Mettee shepherded two titles into Book-of-the-Month Club selections and one onto the New York Times bestseller list. Mettee sold QDB in 2008.
Authors published during his tenure include names such as Irving Stone, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and America’s most popular medical columnist Peter H. Gott, M.D., as well as many first-time authors.
Quill Driver Book’s award-winning titles continue to be distributed nationally and in Canada. Foreign rights to QDB titles have been sold in a score of countries.
QDB has been recognized by industry periodical Book Marketing Update as one of the "Top 101 Independent Book Publishers" in the United States and by Writer’s Digest as one the 100 most new-writer friendly book publishers in the U.S.
Every chance he gets, Mettee immodestly points out that this is quite a list of accomplishments for an independent house.
Mettee served as chairman of the board of The Independent Book Publisher’s Association the nation’s largest book publishing association and the leading advocate for independent presses.
He regularly presents on writing and publishing in a number of venues nationally and internationally.
Mettee has published scads of nonfiction articles on subjects ranging from parenting to business including a chapter in the 2004 Writer’s Market.
He has content edited (or rewritten, as the case may be) more than 150 books.
He holds a BA in Journalism from Fresno State University and is currently working on two diet books: The Sexy Beast Diet for men and The Sexy Babe Diet for women as well as a novel set in the first century.
You can reach him at Mettee@TheWriteThought.com
He's the founder of Quill Driver Books and The Write Thought (TheWriteThought.com) is the author of The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal and the editor of The Portable Writers’ Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published and The American Directory of Writer’s Guidelines.
All are Writers Digest Book Club selections. The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal has been adopted for use in a number of university publishing courses.
During his fifteen years at the helm of Quill Driver Books, Mettee shepherded two titles into Book-of-the-Month Club selections and one onto the New York Times bestseller list. Mettee sold QDB in 2008.
Authors published during his tenure include names such as Irving Stone, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and America’s most popular medical columnist Peter H. Gott, M.D., as well as many first-time authors.
Quill Driver Book’s award-winning titles continue to be distributed nationally and in Canada. Foreign rights to QDB titles have been sold in a score of countries.
QDB has been recognized by industry periodical Book Marketing Update as one of the "Top 101 Independent Book Publishers" in the United States and by Writer’s Digest as one the 100 most new-writer friendly book publishers in the U.S.
Every chance he gets, Mettee immodestly points out that this is quite a list of accomplishments for an independent house.
Mettee served as chairman of the board of The Independent Book Publisher’s Association the nation’s largest book publishing association and the leading advocate for independent presses.
He regularly presents on writing and publishing in a number of venues nationally and internationally.
Mettee has published scads of nonfiction articles on subjects ranging from parenting to business including a chapter in the 2004 Writer’s Market.
He has content edited (or rewritten, as the case may be) more than 150 books.
He holds a BA in Journalism from Fresno State University and is currently working on two diet books: The Sexy Beast Diet for men and The Sexy Babe Diet for women as well as a novel set in the first century.
You can reach him at Mettee@TheWriteThought.com
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April 9, 2009
It took me 3 months to read this book, one article at a time, and have the material sink in. It was worth it. So many different, helpful subjects were covered. They improved my writing, my editing, and my understanding of how to get published. And since the articles were all written by professional writers and teachers of writing, they were entertaining and exemplars, as well. And the book sure beats the price of a realtime conference.
May 24, 2014
There is a lot of good advice. Some of it is dated but most is still applicable.
May 13, 2020
Still valuable!
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April 3, 2021Some contributions are dated, at least in the 1997 edition I picked up at a library book sale (electronic rights ca. 1997! remember CD-ROMs?), but the articles on craft are evergreen and helpful. Definitely worth the dollar I probably paid for it. :)
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