SEMINAR
HOW TO GET YOUR PHOTO BOOK BOOK PUBLISHED

This seminar, consisting of Michelle Dunn Marsh, Editor at Large, Chronicle Books, Dr. Jacqueline Ettinger, Visual Culture Editor, University of Washington Press, Eileen Gittens, Founder of Blurb.com, and Mary Virginia Swanson, Lecturer and Consultant will discuss how to go about getting a photo book published. Each year this popular seminar provides a wealth of useful information – nuts and bolts information photographers can really use in charting their book publishing course.

This remarkable panel will cover the following aspects, time permitting:

The kinds of photographs that publishers are interested in: What constitutes a viable photo book?

Editing your work. The difference between photographs that make a book and a collection of your best pictures.

Presenting your work: Ways to make a “dummy” of your work.

Working with designers

Do I need an agent?

Finding publishers to present your work to

How to approach publishers

Dealing with publishers

What kind of royalties you can expect

What kind of advances you can expect

Should you put your own money into your book?

Should you self-publish your book?

The contract with your publisher

How the book gets financed

Promoting your book

There will be time for questions and answers. This is one of our most popular seminars so sign up early!

Wednesday, March 31.
10:45 am – 12:30 pm
Price: $95
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THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

The Press traces its origins to 1915, when Edmond Meany’sGovernors of Washington, Territorial and State was issued. The first book to bear the University of Washington Press imprint, an edition ofThe Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey edited by Frederick M. Padelford, appeared in 1920. Since that time the Press has published approximately 4,400 books, of which about 1,400 are currently in print. Today we publish about seventy new titles each year.

From the beginning the Press has reflected the University’s major academic strengths. Building on those strengths, combined with a vigorous creativity in developing regional partners, the University of Washington Press has achieved recognition as the leading publisher of scholarly books and distinguished works of regional nonfiction in the Pacific Northwest.