Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4

with Gabrielle Bates, Shelley Wong, Paul Hlava Ceballos

Recent debut authors will briefly share their own first-book journeys, offering practical counsel and sharing resources when it comes to organizing, editing, and soliciting feedback on your manuscript; navigating first-book contest submissions; publishing outside of the contest model; and common emotional, psychological, and financial realities of sending your first book out into the world.