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Classes & Events Happening This Week: May 20th-26th

Don't miss out, here's everything happening this week at Grub:

Multi-Week Classes at Grub HQ:

Short Fiction Intensive, Starting May 20th

Advanced Revision Strategies: Fiction, Starting May 21st

Hannah Levinson

Grub News

Behind the Launch Lab: Craft & Commerce

Snapshot of a Book Launch: Part 2

What’s launching your book really like?

Do you take your own advice?

My first novel, The Forgotten Hours, came out almost three months ago. While I’ve published and launched nonfiction books, this was my first experience debuting a novel. Ironically, after developing and teaching the Launch Lab along with Lynne Griffin, I’d become a bit of a book marketing expert, despite being a non-business-focused creative type. Since the Launch Lab is about helping authors promote themselves and their books in an authentic, sustainable, successful, and hopefully even enjoyable way, I was all set, right?

I ...

Katrin Schumann

Books & Reading The Writing Life

Behind the Launch Lab: Craft & Commerce

Snapshots of a Book Launch: Part 1

What's launching your book really like?

By Katrin Schumann

Your first event is with a panel of authors in front of a crowd of 200 people. You buy new lipstick and pray your voice doesn’t quiver.

The alarm rings at 5am. The Uber doesn’t turn up. On the road late!

Within three days of your book launch, you catch a cold and lose your voice. It's so bad that you have to postpone your big radio interview.

Katrin Schumann

Books & Reading

Behind the Launch Lab: Craft & Commerce

The Truth About Book Readings

When we think about launching our books, we dream of doing readings (among other things like catching sight of our books in airports, and, of course, getting on bestseller lists), but in this day and age why are readings still so important to us?

By Katrin Schumann

For a new author, are readings really all they're cracked up to be?