Business of Writing: Publicity - When Good Writers Behave Badly
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Should writers be neutral all the time? Is any faux pas too big to recover from? What can an author do to fix mistakes? Publicity expert Melanie Meadors answers all your author etiquette questions!
Book reviews are vital to an author’s career, but how do you get them? Find out how to make your review query shine and how to cultivate a relationship that will benefit your career for years to come!
Learn how to figure out if self-publishing is right for you, find out where you start if you want to go this route, and explore ways to achieve real success as a self-published author.
Business of Writing: Selling Your Stories to the World
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Learn ways to get readers to read your books! Explore different ways of marketing your stories to readers and discover what you can do to get them to read that first page.
We’ll help you to navigate the tricky waters of your online presence in this primer on social media. From Facebook to Twitter we’ll cover the basics you need to achieve success.
We’ll explore just what an agent is, what agents do, and how writers get agents. We’ll also look at the agent-author relationship how to make it a successful one.
Find out just what it is editors do, learn why they are so important to the writing process, and explore what you can do to ensure a great editor-author relationship.
Find out what the traditional publishing market looks like today, explore how it can benefit you as a writer, and understand what recent changes in the market means to your writing career.
Business of Writing: Understanding the Publishing Industry
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Join Eric Flint, NYT Bestseller & author of the 1632 series, as he explores the basic parameters of the publishing industry & the affect it has on authors.
Business of Writing: Writer Beware - "How Not to Get Published"
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Richard White, of SFWA's Writer Beware, will present how to identify what writing needs and identify desirable agents and publishers to avoid those who aren't going to help your career.
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There have never been so many ways to get published than today. Yet, for every success story, there are a dozen or so people who get completely discouraged because they have run into people who are out to separate the novice (and not-so-novice) author from their money or time. Richard White, a member of SFWA's Writer Beware committee, will discuss how to identify what your needs are so you can find those desirable agents and publishers and avoid those who aren't going to help your career. Also, he'll discuss the joys and pitfalls of self-publishing. So, come with questions prepared.