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Finding Readers: How to Get More Than a Hundred People to Attend Your Book Launch Event

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Laura Stanfill

I met a local author right after the launch of Stevan Allred’s A Simplified Map of the Real World and he asked, “How did you get that many people to come to a reading?” We attracted an estimated 160 to 180 … Continue reading →

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LAUNCH!

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Laura Stanfill

A Simplified Map of the Real World–the book I have been editing, laying out, proofing, sending out for reviews, cradling in my arms, for the past nine months–is now available! You can find it as a paperback and ebook on Amazon. It’s … Continue reading →

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Big Things

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Laura Stanfill

This interview in the Los Angeles Review is a beautiful meditation on the writing community here in Portland, Oregon, and how Tom Spanbauer influenced my author Stevan Allred and so many others with his Dangerous Writing. Many of his students have … Continue reading →

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Almost Time for Our First Fiction Title

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Laura Stanfill

Here’s the moment right before I go from being a writer/blogger/publisher to publisher/writer/blogger. Well, the transition happened nine months ago, when I started accepting manuscripts, but it has mostly been behind-the-scenes work. Nothing very visible. But now that’s changing. My … Continue reading →

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Finding Readers: Nailing the Back Cover Paragraph

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Laura Stanfill

This is part three of the Finding Readers series. Writing back cover copy is much like writing the dreaded query letter. You have a few careful sentences to hook a reader, whether that reader is an agent, an editor, or … Continue reading →

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ARCs!

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Laura Stanfill

They’re here, they’re here! We’ve printed the first round of ARCs, or advance reader copies, of Stevan Allred’s A Simplified Map of the Real World, a linked short story collection about a small, rural town. Forest Avenue Press, my small press, is … Continue reading →

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