Write the World 2024: What Publishers Want: How to Pitch, Present, and Promote Books, sponsored by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA)

What should they present in order for the work to have the best chance of being accepted? And how should they best use their own networks to promote the work? In this panel, we talk with publishers about the process and how to help translators work with translation grants, build better publisher networks, and have better tools and strategies when reaching out to publishers.

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Moderator

Erin L. Cox has worked in publishing for 25 years, as a publicist at Scribner, book publishing director at The New Yorker, Business Development Director at Publishing Perspectives, and currently as the President of ELC Productions with such clients as the Frankfurt Book Fair, Oxford University Press, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

Panelists

Michel S. Moushabeck is a writer, editor, translator, publisher, and musician of Palestinian descent. He is the founder of Interlink Publishing, a 37-year-old, Massachusetts-based independent publishing house specializing in fiction-in-translation, history and current affairs, illustrated children’s books, and award-winning international cookbooks. Laura Fish is an acquisitions editor at Syracuse University Press, where she acquires projects related to Middle East studies, Geography, Indigenous studies, and New York State studies. She also runs the Middle East Literature in Translation series for the press. John Siciliano is an executive editor at Penguin Random House, acquiring for Viking, Penguin Books, Penguin Life, and Penguin Classics. He has published translations from Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.