Your Book is Your Business: How to Create, Launch, and Market Your Book to A Core Audience

Meet & Greet! Join us for light appetizers, wine, a panel discussion, and more at our Maryland Open House on Thursday, October 3, 2024, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM EST, at Overdue Recognition Art Gallery in Bowie Town Center. The panel discussion: Your Book is Your Business: How to Create, Launch, and Market Your Book to A Core Audience, will offer practical tools and tips from our panel of published authors, library professionals, business owners, and lawyers. Books written by the authors on the panel will also be available at the event.

Who Should Attend

Artists, business owners, and professionals who:

• Are curious about navigating local, state, and federal government contracting processes as a small business;
• Have been thinking about writing their first book and curious about how to approach the writing process;
• May have written a book, but did not do much to get it out there;
• Are interested in researching a target market/audience for their book;
• Wonder how to leverage their knowledge and expertise through writing a book and how that may drive business traffic;
• Wonder how to get their books into a library; and
• Have questions on intellectual property considerations while and after writing a book.

Panelists & Moderator

• Ms. Charlotte Malerich | Published Author and Library Assistant | Arlington County Libraries
• Ms. Felecia McFail | Self-Published Author and Business Owner | FOHTA Gallery
• Mr. Manotti L. Jenkins, Esq. | Published Author and Attorney | Law Offices of Manotti L. Jenkins, LTD
• Tisidra Jones | Published Author, Attorney, and Business Owner | Strong & Starlike Consulting, Inc.

Recent Books by Authors on the Panel

The Factory Witches of Lowell, by C.S. Malerich

The DJ Lovely Story: From Basement DJ to Music Executive, by Felecia Brice McFail and Lyndsey Mandy McFail

Race, Lust and Justice, by Manotti L. Jenkins, Esq.

A Guide to Business Inclusion Programs in Government Contracting: U.S. Federal, State, and Local Programs and Laws, by Tisidra Jones

About Strong & Starlike Consulting, Inc. 

Strong & Starlike Consulting, Inc. is an industry leader in consulting and educational services related to access and economic opportunity. One of the areas our firm has expertise relates to small, minority-owed, and women-owned business programs and policies. We are change agents who design systems with outcomes in mind. We work across sectors and industries with a focus on offering holistic approaches and holistic solutions to economic access and opportunity. It is our mission to create systems that increase individual and community access to information, knowledge, and financial opportunities that help them thrive economically. Let us help you change your systems, so you can change your outcomes.