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Celebrate the independent spirit of small press publishing at the Small Press Center's Small Press Month events in March:

Friday, March 4 from 10 to 11:30 am: Get Published Now! with the help of experts Carol M. Welsh, author and publishing consultant, and John F. Harnish, Infinity Publishing's Author's Advocate, who will lead a free breakfast workshop in honor of "How to Get Published Day." (Free)

Wednesday, March 9 at 6 pm: James Loriega discusses his annotated English language translation of Manual of the Baratero, or the Art of Handling the Navaja, the Knife, and the Scissors of the Gypsies, recently published by Paladin Press. Thursday, March 10 at 6 pm: David Rees, creator of the popular clip-art comic, Get Your War On, harnesses the potential energy of his PowerPoint software to give a brief comic lesson on The Ins and Outs of Small Press Publishing, immediately followed by a conversation on the present state and potential future of indie publishing with Rees and Richard Eoin Nash, publisher of Soft Skull Press. (Free)

Wednesday, March 16 at 6 pm: University & Academic Presses - New Challenges, New Directions, a panel discussion sponsored by the Women's National Book Association/New York City Chapter. ($10; $5 for students and Small Press Center members; free for WNBA members; no RSVP necessary. For information call 212-208-4629.)

Tuesday, March 22 at 6 pm: Adam Gopnik, Staff Writer at The New Yorker, discusses Culture and The New Yorker. ($15, $10 for members, $5 for students; for reservations call 212-302-8078)

Thursday, March 24 at 6 pm: Arthur Kent, Danny Schechter, Pete Tridish, and Mark Cooper, contributors to Prometheus Book's newly-published News Incorporated, are joined by journalists Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, and Kristina Borjesson, in a panel discussion on Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy, led by the editor of News Incorporated, Elliot Cohen. (Free)

Wednesday, March 30, at 6:30 pm: Navigating the Author Contract - A Primer on How to Avoid Publishing Pitfalls, a workshop on how to read and negotiate the standard publishing agreement, led by Helen Wan, a literary publishing lawyer at the firm of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC, sponsored by the Women's National Book Association/New York City Chapter. ($15; $10 for students and WNBA and Small Press Center members; seating is limited and pre-registration is required; registration deadline is Tuesday, March 29. For information call 201-656-7220 or email jtardiff-wnbanyc@worldnet.att.net.)

Thursday, March 31 at 6 pm: A Screening of The Stone Reader, the documentary film Stephen King called a "love sonnet to books and reading," followed by a Q&A with the film's director, Mark Moskowitz and Bob Weil, executive editor at W.W. Norton. ($10, $5 for members and students)

All of the above events are at the Small Press Center, The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen Library, 20 W. 44th Street, NYC. For more information, call 212-764-7021 or email info@smallpress.org. Reservations are recommended for all events (except for the WNBA panel on March 16).

Small Press Month programs are a part of the Small Press Center's twentieth anniversary celebration.

Small Press Month Events from around the country

Be a Success Story - Marketing Your Own Book on Thursday, March 3 at 7:30 pm at Barnes and Noble store, Naperville, Illinois (corner of Washington and Chicago Streets) 630.579.0200 : This book marketing presentation emphasizes self-publishing. Attendees will receive a useful informational handout and a proposed marketing plan spreadsheet to help them turn their book into a marketing success story. It is an entertaining, fact-filled presentation for people in any stage of the book process. The event is free and open to the public. For information contact James T. Durkin

Café Night Benefit for the Small Press Section of the Long Haul Library Sunday March 13th Donations of small press titles encouraged; donations of local small press, very encouraged. 7:30pm Dinner $3-5 donation. The Long Haul is a not-for-profit radical community center at 3124 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley. There is a zine shop up front and a radical lending library and archive in back. Space is now being made in the library for local small press so that the community served by the Long Haul can access local literature. (510)540-0751 http://thelonghaul.org/

An Educational Program of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York.