Small Press Publishing with a Debut Seminar Part 2: Production, Promotion, Post-Publication, and Beyond! with Emily Jon Tobias—May 10

You have found a home for your manuscript, and you have signed on the dotted line. Now what? Let's clear the path for production of your first book by understanding the process ahead.

In this seminar, Emily shares her experience of publishing a debut collection, covering everything from accepting a deal and signing a contract to the full production process. As a continuation of Small Press Publishing With a Debut, this session focuses on key aspects of post-publication, including marketing strategies, advertising, promotion, gathering blurbs, book production, planning a book tour, website design ideas, and more.

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions in an open and supportive forum, reinforcing the power of the literary community and the importance of supporting one another through the business of authorship. This course offers insights and methods that are often absent from traditional academic settings, providing an honest and forthcoming discussion about the pressures and joys of the small press publishing experience.

In this webinar, you will learn —

• • Gain a clear understanding of how book production works in small press publishing.

• Learn tools to help promote, market, and gather reviews for a book.

• Develop insight into timelines and methods of production.

• Have their questions answered through real-life publishing experience.

Who Should Take This Webinar?

• Any seasoned or debut author with a manuscript or works ready to greet the world of publishing.

• Any writer choosing to pursue the world of small press publishing over other options.

• Anyone interested in how the world of small press publishing functions and is designed.

• Any writer who is ready to sign with a small press publisher.

• Anyone with questions about how production and post-production works in small press publishing.

• Anyone interested in the pro's and con's of small press publishing

Additional info

If you can't attend this class live, it will be recorded! Students will receive a recording the day after the class, and it will be available for 30 days.

About the Instructor

Emily Jon Tobias is an American author and poet. She is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with other honorable mentions, and has been featured in various literary journals and magazines. Her debut collection MONARCH: STORIES (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) won the American Book Fest International Book Award and an International Impact Book Award. The collection was further honored as a 2024 finalist in the American Book Fest Fiction Awards, a distinguished favorite in the NYC Big Book Award, second place winner in the Story Monsters Royal Dragonfly Award, a silver medal winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards, and third place winner in the 2025 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program. Currently, Emily is a proud mentor in the PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University Oregon. Midwestern-raised, she now lives and writes on the coast of Southern California.