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Success Without Stress: Get a Handle on Your Author Biz

2024-09-28 13:00:00 2024-09-28 14:00:00 America/Phoenix Success Without Stress: Get a Handle on Your Author Biz Tempe Public Library - Ironwood Classroom

Saturday, September 28
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-28 13:00:00 2024-09-28 14:00:00 America/Phoenix Success Without Stress: Get a Handle on Your Author Biz Grow your author business. Tempe Public Library - Ironwood Classroom

Tempe Public Library

Ironwood Classroom

Grow your author business.

Grow your author business exponentially by working smarter, not harder. Your book is out! Now, what once was your greatest dream suddenly feels like your biggest nightmare. Authors Karen Chow (Miracle, Little Brown) and Sara Fujimura* (Every Reason We Shouldn’t, Tor Teen) share their three-step interconnected marketing system that teaches debut authors and seasoned authors how to grow their businesses exponentially with a few specific, targeted tricks.

*Did you know that Sara Fujimura was our Spring 2022 Writer in Residence?

Karen S. Chow is a Taiwanese-American author, who started writing novels as a college sophomore at Arizona State University, while earning a degree in electrical engineering. Now, she is an engineer by day and middle-grade novelist by night. Her debut middle-grade novel, Miracle, is a heart story that combines her love for music with her experiences witnessing her father passing away from pancreatic cancer. Her second book, about a girl struggling with her parents’ divorce and learning engineering, comes out in January 2026. She lives in Gilbert, AZ, with her family. Karen is represented by Andrea Cascardi at Transatlantic Agency.

https://kchowrites.com/

Sara Fujimura (Foo-gee-moo-rah) is the American half of her bicultural Japanese-American family and spends about a month each year in Japan. She started as a journalist, so it is no surprise that Sara’s young adult books contain a lot of facts to go along with the fiction. Whether you want to know about Japan (TANABATA WISH), the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 (BREATHE), what it’s like to be an Olympic-caliber skater (EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T), or how unscripted television works (FAKING REALITY), Sara takes readers on swoony journeys to unusual places. She is a creative writing teacher and literacy advocate who is excited to support the next generation of authors. Sara is represented by Ann Rose of the Tobias Literary Agency.

EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T was named an NPR Best Book of 2020.

www.sarafujimura.com

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Writing |

TAGS: | Writing |

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