Book festivals are a great way to promote your book and meet both readers and other authors. But participating isn't always easy due to competition for slots, entry fees, and inconvenient locations and times. So what's a writer to do? Build your own! Participants in this workshop will learn how to organize a local book festival and will be given a practically foolproof, step-by-step recipe that minimizes effort and expense and maximizes sales, community, and joy. 
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Before turning to creative writing, DIAN SEIDEL was a climate scientist at NOAA, where her research supported the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She currently teaches English to immigrants at Washington English Center and Iyengar yoga at the YMCA. Her writing appears in Passager, Pen in Hand, Bethesda Magazine, The New York Times, and other journals. Her award-winning memoir, Kindergarten at 60: A Memoir of Teaching in Thailand, was published in 2023 by Apprentice House Press.