The first step in getting published is the creation of a chapbook.

Students in my class create chapbooks, which they distribute to classmates and friends and family at the class reading. Students design and publish these books. Some of the chapbooks are collections of their work in class. Some are collections of work produced over years. One student, here in Maine, created a 50-page chapbook of excerpts from his three novels, and his children’s book, and used the book as a sales tool when taking his work into the marketplace.

CELEBRATION PARTIES IN FLORIDA, NEW YORK, AND MAINE.

My students in Newport published a magazine called Method Madness and then held a public reading and sale of the magazine. Several students and I created a lengthy magazine called Method Mad which was a collection of students work from New York City, Newport RI and mid-coast Maine. We sold the magazine at Café Press.

In the last year, students in the mid-coast have been published in Village Soup/The Herald Gazette/The Republican Journal. Each month, I collect pieces in a section called Voices, which is about four pages long. I work with students to get the pieces ready for the press.

Additionally, based on my years of experience, I offer advice about mainstream publishing, agents, self-publishing, online publishing, Kindle, and so forth.