Poets & Writers Theater

In this PBS NewsHour report, Jeffrey Brown speaks to the teams behind memoir publishing platforms LifeTime Memoirs and StoryTerrace, which help anyone looking to publish a memoir about their lives or those of loved ones.

Publishing veteran Debra Englander gives an overview of the self-publishing process, followed by a conversation with self-published author William Hertling, editor Jessica Page Morel, and book publicist Jessica Glenn about the opportunities available to independent authors as well as the challenges they face.

Publishing veteran Debra Englander gives an overview of the self-publishing process, followed by a conversation with self-published author Keith Devlin, literary agent Ted Weinstein, and publicist Amy Packard about the opportunities available to independent authors as well as the challenges they face.

Polly Courtney, the author of six novels who self-published her latest, Feral Youth (2013), after being frustrated by the “chick-lit” covers assigned to her by HarperCollins, offers the third in her series of how-to videos on self-publishing.

Polly Courtney, the author of six novels who self-published her latest, Feral Youth (2013), after being frustrated by the “chick-lit” covers assigned to her by HarperCollins, offers the second in her series of how-to videos on self-publishing.

In the latest episode of Self-Publishing Roundtable, Hugh Howey, the author known for his popular series Wool, which he independently published through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, talks about his new website, authorearnings.com.

Poets & Writers Magazine's September/October issue explores self-publishing, so today’s featured video clip is a book trailer for Wool, which was originally self-published in 2011 as a short story by independent writer Hugh Howey.

In the September/October 2009 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, we published the essay "Taking It to the Streets: My Year in Guerrilla Publishing" in which Mike Heppner writes about his trajectory from commercially published author to small press author to self-published, D-I-Y author. In this video, Heppner describes the final stage of his Man Talking Project: hand-delivering his manuscript to one of his readers.