Conferences & Trade shows

2017 is the year that Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists crawled out from under rocks, and assembled in public. Festering fascism has produced an immune response in the body politic, and that [Read More ...]

Authors are the backbone of panels at many types of book cons, including comic cons, but author Alex Acks says that panelists were treated like barely tolerated nuisances at last month's Denver Comic [Read More ...]

This weekend finds me at the Carnegie Library in Washington DC (why posting was light today). I am attending  the first ever WordCamp DC conference. This three-day event covers all aspects of [Read More ...]

When DBW tried to boost attendance at its now-defunct conference by adding an indie author track, I noted that there were cheaper and better conferences where authors could learn more about the [Read More ...]

Held over a 2-day span in March in Toronto, eBookcraft is one of the last two remaining digital conferences in North American related to book publishing. Earlier this week they posted several [Read More ...]

Earlier this week Daniel Berkowitz left his position as senior editor of Digital Book World after holding the position for 18 months and has taken up a new role as a digital director at literary [Read More ...]

Digital Book World has always leaned more towards the corporate side of book publishing, but next year's conference is going to shake things up a bit. I was browsing the DBW conference website this [Read More ...]