WVBF: Writing Workshop - Eric Eyre

Eric Eyre
10 Lessons I've Learned Writing My First Book

As a first-time author, I'd like to share some of the publishing secrets that made Death In Mud Lick a National Bestseller. Finding an agent; writing a book proposal; landing the right publisher; optioning the book to a film studio; working with an editor; narrative arc/structure; revising; copy editing/legal review; choosing a title; and marketing and publicity.

Eric Eyre is a longtime West Virginia-based journalist. In 2017, Eyre’s investigation into massive shipments of opioids to West Virginia’s southern coalfields was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. He is the author of the National Bestseller Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (published by Scribner), which was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Book of the Year, and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best True Crime book. For 22 years, Eyre was a reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, where he covered education, health, business and state government corruption. He lives in Charleston with his wife, Lori, and two cats, BlackieBella and Abby.

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