FREEPORT — Freeport Creative Arts will host a conversation about online publishing at 7 p.m. Monday in the Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St.

Panelists Mark Diehl, Josh Christie and Emma Bouthillette will discuss the paths they have taken in online publishing and how they are using the web to attain goals, entertain readers and make money.

Diehl studied law at the University of Iowa and fiction writing at the University of Chicago. His debut novel, “Vida Nocturna,” is a “reaction to the current system where books are published not on merit but on anticipated corporate profitability, resulting in a market-chasing death spiral where suddenly every major house is printing multiple series of vampires in love,” a Freeport Creative Arts release states.

Christie started his career in bookselling in 2004, working as a frontline bookseller at Sherman’s Books and Stationery in Camden. He is a book buyer and event planner for Sherman’s. An avid outdoorsman, he also writes skiing and hiking columns for the Maine Sunday Telegram. In his free time, Josh hosts the Bookrageous podcast.

Bouthillette is a student in University of Southern Maine’s graduate program for creative writing. After graduating from the University of New England in 2008, she spent the past three years working as a journalist for a weekly, then daily paper, and is now focused on publishing her creative writing.

Admission costs $5 at the door. Freeport Creative Arts members get in free.

For more information, go online to www.FreeportCreativeArts.org.