{"id":31924,"date":"2013-09-16T00:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=31924"},"modified":"2013-09-16T00:50:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T04:50:24","slug":"benjamin-martin-at-the-japan-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/16\/benjamin-martin-at-the-japan-writers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Martin at the Japan Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BenjaminMartin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31938\" alt=\"BenjaminMartin\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BenjaminMartin-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BenjaminMartin-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BenjaminMartin.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\/author\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Martin<\/a> (Okinawa, 2008-13), author of the award-winning YA fantasy series Samurai Awakening (Tuttle) and blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/morethingsjapanese.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a>, will be among the presenters at the 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Writers Conference <\/a>to be held Nov. 2-3 in Okinawa. Here\u2019s the official description of his presentation, titled \u201cGetting Published When You Live On An Island\u201d:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This will be an overview of my experience getting published while living on an island with a total population of 550 people, and what I learned along the way that will help perspective authors and those still finding their way while living in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>I will outline my journey into the publishing world while living on Kitadaito and Kumejima Islands in Okinawa, including the successes and pitfalls I found along the way. I will talk about the processes I used to write, the friends and resources that helped me refine my work, and things I wish I had known back then. I will touch on the predatory tactics of companies and resources for avoiding them, and also on the benefits of contests such as the ABNA. I will delve into my experience working without an agent, the pros and cons, and the opportunity I found with Tuttle Publishing, the benefits and trials of working with a smaller press. Finally, I\u2019ll cover marketing from Japan, with ways I found to connect with the writing community. I will end with time for questions and\/or discussion.<\/p>\n<p>For details on the Japan Writers Conference, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/\">http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/<\/a><br \/>\nTo learn more about Benjamin, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\/author\/\">http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\/author\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Martin (Okinawa, 2008-13), author of the award-winning YA fantasy series Samurai Awakening (Tuttle) and blogger at MoreThingsJapanese.com, will be among the presenters at the 2013 Japan Writers Conference to be held Nov. 2-3 in Okinawa. Here\u2019s the official description of his presentation, titled \u201cGetting Published When You Live On An Island\u201d: This will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,408,304,6],"tags":[994,1101,1102,1100],"class_list":["post-31924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-jet-alum-author-beat","category-notable-jet-alums","category-writers","tag-benjamin-martin","tag-japan-wrtiers-conference","tag-jwc","tag-samurai-awakening"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31940,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions\/31940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}