Today I participated in the Push to Publish Conference run by Christine Weiser of Philadelphia Stories. This morning I did Editor Speed Dating, on behalf of the Schuylkill Valley Journal. (Did I mention I’m now a Contributing Editor there? People are horrifed when they hear about how many literary journals I’m involved in, but at least I don’t actually read submissions for the SVJ.)
I initially thought the speed dating was going to be a bust, because only one person had signed up to see me, and ditto for my good friend Rachel Bunting, but in the end I got a couple of latecomers in addition. Rachel gave the two of them double value by chipping in.
This afternoon I went to a couple of panels while I was waiting for my own to come up. Then I was on the panel for Marketing 2.0, Promoting Your Work in a Web 2.0 World. We had a great discussion! Here’s a shout out to my fellow panelists: Don Lafferty of the Philadelphia Liars Club, Kelly Whelan, who blogs at The Centsible Life, and Children’s Book author Nancy Viau.
When I got back my contributor copies of Measure had arrived, and I was thrilled to discover my name was actually on the cover of the journal. Previously I have always been billed as “And Other Poets” so this was a real milestone. Sweet!
It was lovely to meet you and talk Web 2.0 with you.
I’m sorry to have missed out on the speed dates.
Comment by Kelly Whalen — October 17, 2009 @ 7:00 pm