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Wednesday, June 11
 

12:00pm MDT

Lunchtime Business Panel: Book Launch, Behind the Scenes
Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Lighthouse
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A book launch is thrilling, terrifying, heartwarming, stress-inducing, satisfying, exhausting—literally everything, everywhere, all at once. In this panel, authors with books scheduled to release near June 2025 break down how they prepared (or are preparing) for their launch, what they hoped/hope happens, what they know of how publishers evaluate launches, and more. Come prepared to take notes and ask questions.
Speakers
avatar for Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Instructor
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Emmy Award-winning writer, a professor of Constitutional Law and Africa Studies at John Jay College (CUNY), civil rights attorney, and playwright. She is the author of She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power; Race, Law, and American Society... Read More →
JT

Jan Thomas

Instructor
J.E. Thomas spent her early summers stuffing grocery bags with books at the local library, reading feverishly, then repeating the process week after week. So it's not surprising that she thinks books and imagination are the best streaming service around. J.E. is an award-winning writer... Read More →
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Samantha Shea

Agent
After graduating from Colgate University, Samantha Shea joined Georges Borchardt, Inc. in 2010 and was made a Vice President in 2016. Her list includes literary fiction, memoir/narrative nonfiction, journalism, popular culture, essays, cultural criticism, and history. Samantha’s... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Lighthouse 3870 York Street Denver, CO 80205
  Publishing/Career

12:00pm MDT

Lunchtime Business Panel: Book Launch, Behind the Scenes (Livestream)
Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Zoom
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A book launch is thrilling, terrifying, heartwarming, stress-inducing, satisfying, exhausting—literally everything, everywhere, all at once. In this panel, authors with books scheduled to release near June 2025 break down how they prepared (or are preparing) for their launch, what they hoped/hope happens, what they know of how publishers evaluate launches, and more. Come prepared to take notes and ask questions.
Speakers
avatar for Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Instructor
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Emmy Award-winning writer, a professor of Constitutional Law and Africa Studies at John Jay College (CUNY), civil rights attorney, and playwright. She is the author of She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power; Race, Law, and American Society... Read More →
JT

Jan Thomas

Instructor
J.E. Thomas spent her early summers stuffing grocery bags with books at the local library, reading feverishly, then repeating the process week after week. So it's not surprising that she thinks books and imagination are the best streaming service around. J.E. is an award-winning writer... Read More →
avatar for Samantha Shea

Samantha Shea

Agent
After graduating from Colgate University, Samantha Shea joined Georges Borchardt, Inc. in 2010 and was made a Vice President in 2016. Her list includes literary fiction, memoir/narrative nonfiction, journalism, popular culture, essays, cultural criticism, and history. Samantha’s... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Zoom
  Publishing/Career
 
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