Join us April 13, 2026, for the final webinar in the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series, our six-part series for authors looking to publish their first books.
Learn how to build your author platform and leverage online and offline marketing tactics for your first book.
The event is free and if you can’t make it live, you’ll still be able to watch the recording after.
When: April 13, 2026. 1:00 – 2:00 pm US Eastern (convert to your time zone)
Where: Zoom
Speakers
Allison Means
Associate Director/Marketing Director, University of Iowa Press
Allison Means is the associate director and marketing director at the University of Iowa Press, where she leads branding initiatives and develops comprehensive marketing strategies for more than thirty titles annually. She manages publicity campaigns and oversees exhibits and awards for all press publications. Allison has served on the board of The Iowa Review, is a two-time literary panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a founding member of the Iowa City Book Festival organizing committee. Prior to joining the University of Iowa Press, she worked as a publicist at Sourcebooks.
Cameron Ludwick
Associate Director for Marketing and Sales, Duke University Press
Cameron M. Ludwick is the associate director for books marketing and sales at Duke University Press and has been in university press book publishing for more than fifteen years. She was previously the publicity and communications manager at the University of Texas Press and got her start in academic publishing as an intern at the University Press of Kentucky before her first permanent job there in marketing and publicity. She’s also been on the other side of the publishing process as coauthor of five books under the My Old Kentucky Road Trip brand, the newest of which, Kentucky, Y'all, was released in September 2024 by the University Press of Kentucky.
Cathy Hannabach
CEO, Ideas on Fire
Cathy Hannabach is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire, where she helps interdisciplinary academics transform vibrant ideas into powerful books and public projects that can spark meaningful social change. Providing developmental editing, copyediting, manuscript reviews, and indexing since 2009, Ideas on Fire has become a catalyst for rethinking what scholarly publishing can accomplish in an ever-changing landscape.
