How does a book go from being written to making its way to publication? Join us for this moderated discussion to hear the writer’s story of how their book came into the world–from concept to representation to publication and all the messiness in between.
This month: Laura Carney discusses the making of her memoir MY FATHER'S LIST with Paragraph founder Joy Parisi.
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Laura Carney is a writer and copy editor in New York. She's been published by the Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Hill, Runner's World, People magazine, Guideposts, Good Housekeeping, The Fix, Upworthy, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper and other places, and her book My Father’s List: How Living My Dad’s Dreams Set Me Free was published by Post Hill Press in June 2023. Her work as a copy editor has been primarily in magazines, for 20 years, including Good Housekeeping, People, Guideposts, Vanity Fair, and GQ.
To talk about her book, Laura has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, the BBC, Tamron Hall, the Drew Barrymore Show, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, among many other TV programs. She has also been covered in the Washington Post (a story that went viral globally), AARP, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, Woman’s Day, the Daily Mail, the New York Post, and Shondaland, among many other publications. My Father’s List was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2023 by Real Simple magazine.
She’s @myfatherslist on Instagram, @lac30 on Twitter, and her website is bylauracarney.com.