The annual Symposium of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) will feature the presentation “What it Takes to Get your Numismatic Book or Article in Print: How to Research, Write, and have it Published,” by distinguished NBS members, Q. David Bowers and Dennis Tucker. This NBS event will be held on Thursday, Aug. 7, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Room 42 of the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, as part of the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money^SM.  A question and answer session will follow immediately. The NBS Symposium is free to ANA convention goers as well as NBS members.

Attendees will learn the keys to producing successful books and articles from two noted experts. As publisher at Whitman Publishing LLC, Dennis Tucker is the gatekeeper for incoming manuscripts and ideas for the world’s largest numismatic publisher. A leading hobby booster for 80 years, Whitman Publishing has put millions of books, supplies, folders and albums in the hands of new collectors, young and old, in addition to publishing many books for more advanced numismatists. 

Q. David Bowers is author of more than 50 award winning numismatic books, hundreds of articles and is a regular contributor to The Numismatist. Q. David Bowers is a noted rare coin dealer and Chairman Emeritus of Stack’s Bowers of Irvine, California; New York City; Wolfeboro, New Hampshire; Paris and Hong Kong. Both Bowers and Tucker are longtime Numismatic Bibliomania Society members.  

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) is an educational organization of nearly 400 members founded in 1979 to support and promote the use and collecting of numismatic literature. For more information on how to join the NBS, write to NBS, P.O. Box 82, Littleton, NH 03561-0082, or visit the website at www.coinbooks.org/about/membership.html