Unpacking Publishing: Approaches to Getting Your Book Published presented by Tomorrow Bookstore

Event Details

Book publishing is an industry that has stood the test of time over hundreds of years—but with new technologies, confusing business models, and various stakeholders, it can be a complex process to navigate. This panel will provide an inside look at the publishing industry and how books come to be. With an aim at authors and curious readers, panelists will break down various models of publishing and how to be a successful, published author. 

 About the panelists

Courtney Corlew writes fiction. Her debut celebrity romance series, January Studios, consists of interconnected standalones following six characters as they fall in love and chase their dreams. Her newest novel, Millie, Be Mine, published in April 2025, begins a new series, Willow Pines, which will include five (possibly six) stories following different characters from the small town. When she is not writing, Courtney runs a book marketing agency, where she has helped over 50 authors learn how to market their books on social media. She has a passion for the literary scene in her hometown of Indianapolis, where she resides with her husband and two children. She looks forward to writing many more stories in both the romance and fantasy genres. 

Kristen Renee Miller is the director and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books and the founder of Zine Machine. An award-winning poet and translator, she is a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and the translator of two books from the French by Ilnu Nation poet Marie-Andrée Gill. She is the recipient of honors from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, AIGA, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, and the American Literary Translators Association. Her work can be found widely, including in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, and Best New Poets. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Leah McNaughton Lederman, a Pushcart-nominated author, has created two volumes of Café Macabre: A Collection of Horror Stories and Art by Women (SourcePoint Press, 2019; 2021) and her own short story collection: A Novel of Shorts: The Woman No One Sees (2020). Her creative nonfiction has been published in The River and South Review, Defenestration Mag, and The Wrath-Bearing Tree. In 2022, Leah published Beautifully Broken: The Katy Hayes Story, about her cousin’s life as a quadruple amputee. Currently, Leah serves as the Social Media Coordinator for the Indiana Writers Center and Executive Director of the Midwest Writers Workshop. She lives in the Indianapolis area with her husband and an assortment of children, cats, and dogs.