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SUMMARY:Workshop: Publishing Pursuits: Traditional or Indie? Led by Kim Poovey
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWednesday\, March 27\, 2024 · 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nYou’ve finished your manuscript and are ready to share it with the world! The question is whether to go with a traditional publisher or try your hand at independent (Indie) publishing. There are pros and cons to both. Learn the differences between traditional\, hybrid\, and Indie publishing and how to decide which is the best option for your manuscript. \nThis workshop will cover:\n*Aspects of traditional publishing with large and small presses\, hybrid publishing\, and Indie publishing\n*The pros and cons of traditional and Indie publishing\n*Questions you need to ask when considering traditional or hybrid publishing\n*The ins and outs of Indie publishing \nWhat this workshop does not cover:\n*How to write a query letter\n*How to pitch to agents \nThis in-person workshop will be held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.)\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $40/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nKim Poovey is an author of historical fiction and hauntings. She began her writing career with a traditional publishing house for her first two novels\, Truer Words and Through Button Eyes: Memoirs of an Edwardian Teddy Bear. In 2017\, she switched to Indie publishing and hasn’t looked back. Under her imprint\, Dickens Ghost Publishing\, LLC\, Kim has produced five books; a collection of short stories\, the first three novels in her Dreamist series about a woman who can communicate with the dead in her dreams\, and Shadows of the Moss\, book one in a historical fiction trilogy. \nKim has presented for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) through USCB as well as presenting at Camp Conroy for the past two summers. In addition\, Kim has written for several magazines\, including Beaufort Lifestyle\, Bluffton Breeze\, Citizen’s Companion\, and the Civil War Times. When not writing\, Kim is a school psychologist who lives with her husband and fur babies in a haunted 1890s cottage in the Lowcountry. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Death of Santini
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 28\, 2024 – 6:30-7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. \nDiscussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nRegister at Eventbrite \nJanuary 25: South of Broad\nFebruary 21: My Reading Life\nMarch 28: The Death of Santini\nApril 25: A Lowcountry Heart \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-book-club-the-death-of-santini/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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