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Lit Fest 2025
Friday June 6, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
You believe 100% in your book. You've polished your manuscript, had beta readers, attended workshops, hired an editor, and queried agents to no avail. You want your book in print, but you've given up on "big" book publishing. Come explore other options as former literary agent Shana Kelly interviews authors who found success with small presses, self-publishing, and the hybrid model. How did they find publishers? What were the pros and cons? What was the cost? How about sales? Join these authors as they reveal the highs and the lows of publishing outside the Big Five.
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Shana Kelly

Panelist
Shana Kelly was a literary agent at the William Morris Agency in New York and London for ten years. She currently works as a book editor, writer, and publishing consultant, and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. In 2024, she won an Emmy for writing A Towering Task: The Story... Read More →
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Troy Horne

Panelist
Troy Horne is a three-time best-seller author-ing, Star Search contestant-ing, NBC’s the Sing Off competing, Steve Miller and Gov’t Mule band opening, RENT on Broadway Tom Collins performing, Father of three. As a self-published author he’s sold over 253,800 copies of his nonfiction... Read More →
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Nancy Viera

Panelist
Nancy Viera is a Mexican American author from Denver, Colorado. She is the author of a memoir, The Grief and The Happiness, and has written four poetry collections, Silhouette, Chicago and You, Serendipity, and the newest one, Reclamation. She is the host of City Silhouettes... Read More →
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Terri Lewis

Instructor
Terri Lewis fell in love with medieval history in college. Not the dates or wars, but the mysterious daily lives of the people. Building on this love, she read and traveled widely, and finally, two sentences in a book bought at Windsor Castle led her to write her debut novel, Behold... Read More →
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Poupeh Missaghi

Instructor
Poupeh Missaghi is a writer, translator, and editor. Her debut book trans(re)lating house one was published in 2020 and her second book Sound Museum was published in 2024 (Coffee House Press). Her most recent translation In the Streets of Tehran, a book of witness narratives, was... Read More →
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Cynthia Swanson

Cynthia Swanson is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of The Bookseller, The Glass Forest, and Anyone But Her. An Indie Next selection and the winner of the 2016 WILLA Award for Historical Fiction, The Bookseller has been translated into a dozen languages... Read More →
Friday June 6, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
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