All You Need to Know About Publishing with a Small Press
In this course, Emily will share her successes and failures along the journey to find a home for her debut story collection, MONARCH. Emily will share details that can only come with experience including, but not limited to, writing query letters (agents vs. presses), tracking submissions, the research process, fees, red flags, green flags, how to best navigate technology with productive, simple tools, and, perhaps most importantly, how to handle the emotional pressure of rejection after rejection.
In This Webinar You Will:
A) leave with a query letter template to be used for publishers and/or agents
B) be familiar with the top online resources for getting your work published
C) learn the foundations of how small press publishing works along with pro's and con's
D) a clearer vision of which publishers might work best for your projects at hand
E) knowledge of the industry and an empowered sense of community that might be previously untapped
Who Should Take This Webinar?
- Any seasoned or debut author with a manuscript or works ready to greet the world of publishing
- Authors choosing to pursue the world of small press publishing over other options
- Any writer interested in how the world of small press publishing functions and is designed
- Any writer interested in the best online resources for tracking, submitting, and organizing ready works - Those who are interested in the pro's and con's of small press publishing
- Any author ready to query presses and/or agents
About Emily:
Emily Jon Tobias is an American author and poet. She is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with other honorable mentions, and has been featured in various literary journals and magazines. Her debut collection MONARCH: STORIES (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) won the American Book Fest International Book Award and an International Impact Book Award. The collection was further honored as a 2024 finalist in the American Book Fest Fiction Awards, a distinguished favorite in the NYC Big Book Award, second place winner in the Story Monsters Royal Dragonfly Award, and a third place winner in the 2025 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program. Currently, Emily is a proud mentor in the PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University Oregon. Midwestern-raised, she now lives and writes on the coast of Southern California.