Member Author Team examines paths to publishing during May 15 panel

Authors get published in a variety of ways these days, National Press Club members are invited to a Member Author Team panel that will examine them during a discussion on Thursday, May 15 in the Reliable Source’s McClendon Room.

A self-funded dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. with the program starting at 6 p.m. for both in-person and virtual participants. Registration is required.

There are three general avenues to publishing success: being published by a major publishing house (including its subsidiaries), by a boutique publisher, or through independent (self) publishing.

Drawing on their experiences with both traditional and independent publishing, the featured member authors, Edward Segal, Dan Raviv and Rick Pullen, plan to discuss what has worked, what hasn’t, and how the publishing landscape continues to evolve. The panel is expected to be moderated by Natalie Jacobsen, co-leader of the Member Author Team.

After each author shares a brief history of their publishing journey, Jacobsen plans to engage the panel in conversation before opening the floor to a question-and-answer session with participants.

Jacobsen is director of marketing & communications at Airlink, a humanitarian non-governmental organization. She recently published her debut novel, Ghost Train, a fictionalized account of the effects of women during westernization in Japan at the end of the 19th century.

Segal is a leadership strategies senior contributor for Forbes.com. He has written books about crisis management, public relations and American political history. His fifth book, The Crisis Casebook: Lessons in Crisis Management from the World’s Leading Brands is set to be published in September and is currently available for pre-order.

Raviv was a CBS News correspondent for 40 years based in New York, Tel Aviv, London, Miami and Washington. He has written a variety of books and is the best-selling author of Every Spy a Prince. He has been published by Random House, an academic publisher and independently.

Pullen is a columnist for CrimeReads.com and publishes Idol Talk, a newsletter about famous crime novelists. He has three published novels, is shopping a fourth and just completed a manuscript about how 40 famous crime novelists got their start.