{"id":52,"date":"2011-07-01T06:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/?p=52"},"modified":"2011-07-01T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:49:09","slug":"july-wordfest-explores-changes-in-the-book-publishing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/july-wordfest-explores-changes-in-the-book-publishing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"July WordFest explores changes in the book publishing world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">On <span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Tuesday, July 5, editor and publisher <strong>John Morgan <\/strong>will give an overview  to current publishing options available to authors, including  traditional print publishing, print-on-demand services, and the rapidly  growing world of e-books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">John founded <strong>Morgan Online Media<\/strong> earlier this year, an <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\" lang=\"EN\">e-publishing  company that is seeking to edit, publish, market and sell e-books by  new and undiscovered authors. John has worked for several large media  corporations, including three years as senior editor of the financial  trade journal <span><span><em>Money Management Executive<\/em><\/span><\/span>. His articles have appeared in <span><span><em>American Banker, Financial Planning, On Wall Street, Bank Investment Consultant, and<\/em><\/span><\/span> <span><span><em>Investment Dealer\u2019s Digest<\/em><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Also that evening <strong>Kim Le <\/strong>will be reading from her book, <em>100 Snapshots of Struggle, Hope and Survival<\/em>, which captures the experiences of Southeast Asian refugees who left their homelands and started new lives in the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Kim has worked with various social services for over thirty years.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She  served as the Executive Director of New Americans Social and Cultural  Assistance for almost 10 years, an organization that provides  resettlement services for Slavic and Southeast Asian refugees and  immigrants in Southwest Washington. <span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She has also been very involved in community building and empowerment since 1977. Copies of <em>100 Snapshots<\/em> will be available that evening for a $5.00 to the Health &amp;Well Being Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><strong>Linda Eddleston <\/strong>will be reading poems that she and her daughter wrote and published in a booklet entitled, <em>Poetry A Through Z<\/em>.Linda , a retired teacher, will be discussing why people write  poetry and providing handouts with different styles of poetry. Copies of  the booklet will be available for $10.00.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">WordFest  is a gathering of readers and writers who meet on the first Tuesday of  each month from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at The Brits, 1427 Commerce Avenue in  Longview. Following the evening presenters, there is an open mic time  where the audience can read their own material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The events are free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, July 5, editor and publisher John Morgan will give an overview to current publishing options available to authors, including traditional print publishing, print-on-demand services, and the rapidly growing world of e-books. John founded Morgan Online Media earlier this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/july-wordfest-explores-changes-in-the-book-publishing-world\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July WordFest explores changes in the book publishing world<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}