How do you get a book published?

Sue Fagalde Lick will offer the nitty-gritty answers in “Book Publishing 101” at the Feb. 22 joint meeting of Willamette Writers’ Coast and Corvallis chapters.

The meeting, which starts at 6:30 p.m. will be presented online via Zoom. 

Lick, author of 11 published books, will discuss the differences between traditional publishing, hybrid publishing and self-publishing, how to approach each one, and how to decide which path is right for your book. With experience in all three methods of publishing, she will share the advantages and disadvantages of each method and the hard truths about money, sales, and marketing.

A longtime journalist in the California Bay Area, Sue Fagalde Lick earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Antioch University Los Angeles at age 51. She has published many articles, essays and poems since she moved to Oregon in 1996. Co-chair of the Coast Chapter of Willamette Writers and vice president of Oregon Poetry Association, she lives with her dog Annie on the coast near Newport. Lick’s traditionally published books include The Iberian Americans (Chelsea House), Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California (Heyday Books), Freelancing for Newspapers (Quill Driver Books), and the poetry chapbook Gravel Road Ahead (Finishing Line Press). Her second chapbook, The Widow at the Piano, was a hybrid project from The Poetry Box in Portland. Under her Blue Hydrangea Productions imprint, she has self-published Childless by Marriage, Love or Children: When You Can’t Have Both, the novels Azorean Dreams and Up Beaver Creek, and two memoirs.