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Blake Mettee is president and publisher, Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer
Press, Inc., an award-winning, California-based publisher of nonfiction
books.
Mettee is the editor of The Portable Writers’
Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published, a Writer’s
Digest Book Club selection, the author of The Fast-Track Course on How to
Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal, and has published scads of nonfiction
articles on subjects ranging from parenting to business. He is currently
working on a book on nonprofit fund-raising for the amateur.
A member of the board of directors of Writer’s
International Network–Writer’s Inter-age Network, he was director of WIN-WIN’s
annual William Saroyan Writer’s Conference from 1992 to 1997 and continues
as chair of the conference.
Mettee has taught classes on writing and publishing in
a number of venues including the University of California, Davis extension
program, the California Library Association’s annual conference and the San
Francisco Bay Area Book Festival. He was evaluated as a "highest rating"
presenter at the California Writer’s Club Asilomar conference.
QDB/WDP is recognized by industry periodical Book
Marketing Update as one of the "Top 101 Independent Book Publishers" in the
United States. Writer’s Digest magazine identifies QDB/WDP as one of the
"100 Best Book Markets for New Writers."
Mettee is always in the market for nonfiction books,
particularly California regional titles; writing titles; practical, upbeat
encouraging works that enhance the lives of people over 50, for QDB/WDP’s
trademarked Best Half of Life series; and concise, clear, how-to books for
QDB/WDP’s Fast-Track Course series.
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