Randy White
Randy White is the author of Blood Transparencies: An Autobiography in Verse which was nominated for both the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Autobiography / Biography and the 2017 Kirkus Prize. He is also the author of Motherlode/La Veta Madre. He has been awarded the Bazzanella Literary Award for both poetry and short fiction. His work has appeared in the Range of Light Anthology, From These Hills: Stories and Poems of The American West, Sulfur, Sierra Journal, Poetry Now, News From Native California and other magazines. A short story “In the Mouth of Heaven” was nominated to appear in the anthology: Best New Voices in American Fiction.
He serves on the Editorial Board of the Sierra College Press and gives readings of both poetry, fiction and biography. He has appeared at the University of Oklahoma, CSU Chico, The University of Arizona, Southern Oregon College and other venues as well as being sponsored to lecture on writing by Poets & Writers Inc.
Currently, he is completing a biography of the Native Californian known as Ishi, and a young adult novel River Sons and Daughters about a boy who uses the power of story to save a river and his community from destruction.
Friday | Rocklin Workshop - Small Independent Literary Publishers: How to get your writing from notebook to a bookstore’s shelf.
We will briefly examine the background of small literary presses and how they differ from self-publishing including some currently significant small independent literary presses, such as Copper Canyon and Blue Oak Press, and the small press relationship to the mainstream publishing industry. An overview of how small presses are founded, funded, and staffed including the value of a website and a social media presence will also be discussed.
We will also inform participants on how manuscripts are chosen, as well as what a publisher expects from and offers to an author including author rights, royalties, and renumerations. The editorial process of revising and sequencing a manuscript, and cover design will be touched upon as well as interior design, typography, the printing process, and proofing. Finally we will discuss doing literary readings and media interviews, and acquiring blurbs (testimonials about your book) and the marketing and distribution of a book including working with Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other mass distribution outlets for books.
