Katherine Min: “What I Learned on a Book Tour (And Other Musings of a Debut Novelist)”
In this podcast, recorded on 6/14/07 at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Elevenses, Katherine Min divulges the surprises and pitfalls of her first book tour, including advice on finding one's "natural audience." Min offers tips on creatively marketing oneself as a writer and answers audience questions about the experience of writing from a unique cultural perspective. Min encourages writers to actively promote themselves and ignore the idea that "most writers should be read, not seen."
Listen: Katherine Min presents "What I Learned on Book Tour" at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Caryl Pagel introduces Katherine Min's presentation.
Katherine Min's novel, Secondhand World, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and Prairie Schooner, and have been widely anthologized, most recently in The Pushcart Book of Stories: The Best Short Stories from a Quarter-Century. Min has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the New Hampshire Arts Council. She currently teaches at Plymouth State University.
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June 15, 2007
Fiction | Summer Writing Festival
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