Publishing and Publicizing Your Book with Mary Bisbee-Beek (Webinar)

Mary Bisbee-Beek has worked in book publishing for the greater part of 40+ years, with added experience as a photo archivist at The Oakland Museum, and the director of The Cartoon Art Museum in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a book publicist, her clients often include photographers, as well as poets, literary novelists, and creative non-fiction authors.

In addition to book publicity, the Read/See office actively concentrates on Publishing Sherpa services which help authors and photographers gain perspective about audience, publishers, and strategic next steps whilst they are planning a publication project. The Sherpa often makes introductions to editors, writers, and potentially interesting associations with publishers and event venues.

With special guest Lauren Walsh! 

Dr. Lauren Walsh teaches at New York University, where she is the Director of the Gallatin Photojournalism Intensive. She is also the Director of Lost Rolls America, a national archive of photography and memory, and in 2023 was named a Fulbright Specialist in Photography and Ethics. Walsh focuses particularly on photojournalism, with a specialty in conflict photography and peace journalism. She was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from NYU.

Walsh’s newest book is Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter (2022). Her other books include Conversations on Conflict Photography (2019) and Shadow of Memory (2021, co-author); and she is co-editor of The Future of Text and Image: Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures (2012) and The Millennium Villages Project (2016), and photo editor of Macondo: Memories of the Colombian Conflict (2017). She has published widely in mainstream and academic journals and anthologies. In addition to her appearances on CNN, Al Jazeera and BBC, Walsh has appeared as an expert on photography in radio programs, podcasts, and documentary films; and sits on the Board of various photojournalism organizations.