{"id":44946,"date":"2019-08-29T19:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T23:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=44946"},"modified":"2019-09-15T22:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T02:09:45","slug":"todd-jay-leonard-to-speak-at-japan-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/29\/todd-jay-leonard-to-speak-at-japan-writers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Jay Leonard to speak at Japan Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/\">Tom Baker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JET alum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/todd-jay-leonard-3a86b433\">Todd Jay Leonard<\/a> will be among nearly 50 published writers making presentations at this year\u2019s Japan Writers Conference (Oct. 12-13 in Tokyo). Here\u2019s the official description of his talk:<\/p>\n<h4>\u201cPublishing in the EFL Market in Japan: Four Perspectives on How to Make your Proposal Count\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Business-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44949\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Business-book-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Business-book-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Business-book.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>Short lecture with Q &amp; A<br \/>\nThis presentation will outline the current publishing market in Japan for EFL\/ESL textbooks by reviewing the various points of views of the publishing industry. The presenter has published extensively within the ESL\/EFL field in Japan and will offer helpful advice to budding authors who wish to pursue projects geared to Japan&#8217;s domestic market. What are publishers looking for in the current market? What appeals to editors who ultimately decide? What are the salespeople on the front lines hearing from their market? What must an author do in order to get his\/her book published? This presentation focuses on these very questions.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Jay Leonard has been actively involved in book publishing for thirty years and has published twenty books. He lives, writes, and teaches on the southern island of Kyushu, where he is a university professor at University of Teacher Education Fukuoka. He has published extensively in academic journals, magazines, and newspapers on cross-cultural, historical, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) themes.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/\">http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Tom Baker. JET alum Todd Jay Leonard will be among nearly 50 published writers making presentations at this year\u2019s Japan Writers Conference (Oct. 12-13 in Tokyo). Here\u2019s the official description of his talk: \u201cPublishing in the EFL Market in Japan: Four Perspectives on How to Make your Proposal Count\u201d Short lecture with Q [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,1427,408,6],"tags":[314,315],"class_list":["post-44946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-japan-writers-conference","category-jet-alum-author-beat","category-writers","tag-japan-writers-conference","tag-todd-jay-leonard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-bGW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946","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=44946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44950,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44946\/revisions\/44950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}