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Stefanie Freele
Stefanie Freele, the 2010-2011 Healdsburg Literary Laureate, is the author of the short story collection "Feeding Strays" published by Lost Horse Press and a chapbook titled Motel released by Bannock Street Books. Recent and forthcoming work can be found in many wonderful literary magazines such as: Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, Night Train, Literary Mama, Vestal Review, The Pedestal Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Frigg, Dogplotz, and Hobart. She has an MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts: Whidbey Writers Workshop and currently teaches creative writing classes at the Healdsburg Plaza Art Center. Stefanie is an editor with SmokeLong Quarterly and the Fiction Editor for the Los Angeles Review. |
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Steve Mettee Stephen Blake Mettee, founder of, Quill Driver Books and The Write Thought (TheWriteThought.com) is the author of The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal and the editor of The Portable Writers' Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published and The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines. How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal has been adopted for use in university writing courses. Mettee has published scads of nonfiction articles on subjects ranging from parenting to business including a chapter in the 2004 Writer's Market. He serves on the board of The Independent Book Publisher's Association the nation's leading advocate for independent publishing. He regularly teaches writing and publishing in a number of venues. Quill Driver Books publishes nonfiction books including many books on writing, all of which are Writer's Digest Book Club Selections. Two Quill Driver Books titles are Book-of-the-Month Club selections and one is a New York Times bestseller.QDB's authors include names such as Irving Stone, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and America's most popular medical columnist Peter H. Gott, M.D., as well as many first-time authors. Quill Driver Book's award-winning titles are distributed nationally and in Canada. Foreign rights to QDB titles have been sold in more than a dozen countries. QDB is recognized by industry periodical Book Marketing Update as one of the "Top 101 Independent Book Publishers" in the United States and by Writer's Digest as one the 100 most new-writer friendly book publishers in the U.S. Mettee is always in the market for exceptional nonfiction books. |
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Brianna Smith Brianna Smith is an independent editor living in San Francisco. She has worked for Chronicle Books, where she acquired and edited literary fiction, humor, pop culture, and narrative non-fiction titles, including Kamala Harris's Smart on Crime, The Empanada Brotherhood by John Nichols, and the Worst-Case Scenario series. Before that, she worked for Times Books in New York, where she edited current events, policy, and history titles, which included the National Book Award-nominated 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer, and Bob Herbert's collected columns, Promises Betrayed. Brianna offers manuscript review, developmental editing, and proposal consultation for both fiction and non-fiction. She is particularly interested in short stories, historical fiction, and humor titles. |
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