Event Date: September 27, 2017 | Time: 10AM PST / 1PM EST Join us as Rosanne Bane discusses Understanding the Brain Science to Overcoming Writing Resistance. About Rosanne Bane Rosanne Bane is a Creativity Coach and author of Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance. A veteran teaching artist, Rosanne has helped […]
Event Date: October 4, 2017 | Time: 10AM PST / 1PM EST Join us as Bret Ridgway discusses How to Avoid the Top Mistakes Authors Make. About Bret Ridgway Bret Ridgway is co-founder of Speaker Fulfillment Services, a company that works with authors, speakers and information marketers. His unique behind-the-scenes perspective a the fulfillment house of […]
Event Date: October 11, 2017 | Time: 10AM PST / 1PM EST Join us as Robin Cutler discusses How to Publish Your Book with IngramSpark. About Robin Cutler Director of IngramSpark Ingram Content Group Inc., Lavergne, TN Robin is committed to helping independent publishers easily get their content into the hands of readers around the globe. […]
Event Date: October 18, 2017 | Time: 10AM PST / 1PM EST Join us as Brian Craig discusses Copyright, Privacy, and Defamation Issues for Nonfiction Authors. About Brian Craig Brian Craig is a professor, writer, and indexer. He teaches online legal courses for Kaplan University and Brigham Young University-Idaho and previously taught at the University of Minnesota […]
Event Date: October 25, 2017 | Time: 10AM PST / 1PM EST Join us as C. Hope Clark discusses How to Break Into Freelance Writing. About C. Hope Clark C. Hope Clark wears two very large hats. One as editor of FundsforWriters.com, designated by Writer’s Digest for its 101 Best Websites for Writers for the past 17 […]
Event Date: November 1, 2017 | Time: 10AM PST / 1PM EST Join us as Carla King shares Essential Self-Publishing Tools and Resources. About Carla King Carla King is the founder of Self-Publishing Boot Camp, a series of educational books and workshops that help independent authors publish their books. She is a frequent speaker at writing conferences, a consultant, and […]
Event Date: November 8, 2017 | Time: 10AM PST / 1PM EST Join us as Joel Friedlander discusses Book Design Mistakes to Avoid. About Joel Friedlander Joel Friedlander is an award-winning book designer, blogger, and writer. He speaks regularly at industry events and is the author of A Self-Publisher’s Companion and coauthor of The Self-Publisher’s Ultimate Resource Guide. The blogger […]
Maximizing the Value of Your Book Before You Sell or Publish It by Michael Larsen
Visibility is Salability: Making the World Ready for Your Book * Register your name as your website asap. If your name is taken, tweak it by, for example, adding your middle initial. * Use your name for your email address: [your first name]@[your first name followed by your last name].com. Keep your address clear, simple, […]
Techniques of How to Gather Information for Your Next Piece by Olivia Ryan
All nonfiction writers have to go through a writer’s block at some point of their career. This block may include struggles with ideas or the writing part, but the most common struggle is based on gathering information. After all, the information you will gather will influence the choice of topic, story, and even type of […]
What’s in It for You? Setting Your Literary and Publishing Goals by Michael Larsen
Create a portrait of the writer you want to be by describing your short- and long-term personal, literary and publishing goals and how you will achieve them by answering these questions. When possible, start your answers with the word “I.” Why do you want to write? What do you want to write–novels, nonfiction, children’s, MG […]
Name: Carolyn Glenn Brewer Book Title: Changing the Tune, the Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, 1978-1985 Your book’s Amazon purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/Carolyn-Glenn-Brewer/e/B006EQYDV What is your book about? The Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival was the first jazz festival run by women. It challenged the pervasive attitude that jazz was a boys’ club by focusing on […]
Maximizing the Value of Your Book Before You Sell or Publish It by Michael Larsen
Visibility is Salability: Making the World Ready for Your Book * Register your name as your website asap. If your name is taken, tweak it by, for example, adding your middle initial. * Use your name for your email address: [your first name]@[your first name followed by your last name].com. Keep your address clear, simple, […]
Techniques of How to Gather Information for Your Next Piece by Olivia Ryan
All nonfiction writers have to go through a writer’s block at some point of their career. This block may include struggles with ideas or the writing part, but the most common struggle is based on gathering information. After all, the information you will gather will influence the choice of topic, story, and even type of […]
What’s in It for You? Setting Your Literary and Publishing Goals by Michael Larsen
Create a portrait of the writer you want to be by describing your short- and long-term personal, literary and publishing goals and how you will achieve them by answering these questions. When possible, start your answers with the word “I.” Why do you want to write? What do you want to write–novels, nonfiction, children’s, MG […]
Writing and Sharing Your Work as Labors of Love by Michael Larsen
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs Pour your time and passion into what brings you the most joy, your mission in life. –Marie Kondo, the life-changing magic of tidying up At their best, reading, writing, agenting, editing, publishing, reviewing, and bookselling are labors of love. […]
What Corporate Sponsors Want from Authors
While you may think that these corporate sponsorships are few and far between, I can assure you that they are easier to get than you might think. Corporations aren’t looking for a bargain. First, you should know that big companies have equally big budgets. On average they allocate 10% to 15% of profits toward marketing […]
(NOTE: This post is a companion piece to Peter Bowerman’s NFAA teleseminar on the subject to be posted on 8/17/17.) In late 2009, I released my fourth self-published book, the updated edition of my first, The Well-Fed Writer (TWFW), an award-winning how-to about my chosen field (since 1994) of lucrative “commercial” writing – freelancing for […]
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