Author & Book Designer Chip Kidd will be making an appearance Friday & Saturday (4:30 to 5:30 pm) at the PubWest 2019 Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico which runs February 7-9, 2019.
WHEN: February 7-9, 2019 – From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: La Fonda on the Plaza
100 E. San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
For TICKET INFORMATION, just Click Here!
RESERVATIONS BY PHONE: Call 800-523-5002 and choose option 1. Please be sure to specify that you are with PubWest to receive our rate. Reservations hours are Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.; and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time).
RESERVATIONS ONLINE: CLICK HERE and then click on the hotel reservation link.
The main theme for the conference this year is “Making Change: Culture, Content, Commerce.” As we all are aware, strategically handling change is key for success. Our passion is driven in the industry through publishing culturally related content that creates commerce. For each and every conference offering—each keynote address, each panel, each intensive session, and each networking event—“Making Change: Culture, Content, Commerce” will be our focus.
~ Program highlights ~
- Keynote addresses by Chip Kidd, Graphic Designer at Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, and Lina Khan, academic fellow at Columbia Law School and senior fellow at the Open Markets Institute
- Preconference intensive sessions (now included with conference registration): “Audiobooks: From Page to Ear” and “Recruiting and Management: Finding and Keeping the Employees You Need”
- The extended Gibbs Smith Publishers Roundtable
- Sessions include “Regional and Travel Publishing,” “Beyond the Reading: Events-Based Marketing,” “Examining Editorial Style and Tone,” “The Intricacies of Fonts and Typesetting,” “Finance and Management of Non-Traditional Models,” “Paper, Paper, Paper,” “What’s Your Story? Why Branding is Important for Publishers of Any Size,” “File-Sharing Best Practices,” “Social Justice, Diversity, and Equity: Not Just words, but Deeds,” “Bookselling: Techniques, Tips, and Takeaways ,” “How Can blockchain Help Small to Medium-Sized Publishers?,” “Your Backlist: Sales, Refocusing, Reprints, Authors, Marketing,” and “How to Train Your Author: Investing in Your Authors and Not Just Their Books”
- Our new Peer Pairs Program: Discuss Publishing Related Issues one-to-one with Your PeersPlus:
- “Speedy Spiels: How to Get Out of the Weeds”: Four-Minute Presentations Describing How to Manage the Myriad Daily Tasks and Projects that can slow us down. What can you share to help others get out of the weeds?
Hope to see you there & please share this on your Social Media!!
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