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Spring Book Show
2010 Authorship 101 Seminar
"How To Become a
Successful Author - The Basics"
Friday, March 26, 2010
Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Ga.
You're invited to the Spring Book Show Seminar on
Friday, March 26, 2010. Following is the agenda,
including faculty, topics and times.
Enrollment information appears below the
agenda.
Seminar attendees receive free admission to
the Spring Book Show - normally $75 per person.
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11:00 a.m. - noon |
Peter Bowerman, author of several books
on making a living as an author and publisher, including “The Well-Fed
Writer” and “The Well-Fed Self-Publisher.” Topic: “The Well-Fed
Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living
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noon - 1:00 p.m.. |
Lunch on your own. Visit show floor. Guided
tour of show floor available for interested conferees.
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1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Ahmad Meradji, president, Apex Book Manufacturing, "How To Get Your
Self-Published Book Manufactured."
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2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
David Fulmer, Shamus winner, author of
several mysteries published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, now creating a
new publishing house in Atlanta, Topic:
"New Games in Town - The Shift in
the Publishing Paradigm."
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3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
Break
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3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Angela K. Durden, author of children’s
books, editor of a new anthology of business essays, publisher,
businesswoman. “Problems of self-editing, level of quality to seek,
benefits of hiring an editor, different types of editing.”
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Instructors
Peter Bowerman, author of several books on making a living as an author and
publisher, including “The Well-Fed Writer” and “The Well-Fed Self-Publisher.”
Topic: “The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time
Living"
Landing
a publisher has never been harder. Even when you do, count
on anemic royalty rates, 18 to 24 months to publication, and giving up the
rights to your book. And you’ll still be
expected to do most of the marketing yourself! Yet, thanks to the Internet,
self-publishing has become easier, more viable and more potentially lucrative
than ever before. Join Peter Bowerman, successful self-publisher of the
Well-Fed titles as he shares his proven
strategies for production, promotion and publicity that yielded 60,000+ copies
of his books in print and a full-time living for eight-plus years.
Peter Bowerman, an
Atlanta-based freelance commercial writer, is the author of the 2000
award-winning Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Well-Fed Writer,
and its 2005
companion volume, TWFW: Back For Seconds (www.wellfedwriter.com),
both self-published, and both how-to “standards” on lucrative commercial
freelancing. His commercial client list has included Coca-Cola, BellSouth, IBM,
UPS, American Express, Mercedes-Benz
and the Woodruff Arts Center. He has published over 250 articles and editorials,
leads seminars on writing and is a professional coach on both commercial
freelancing business start-up and self-publishing. In 2006, Bowerman chronicled
his self-publishing success (50,000 copies of his two books in print, and a
full-time living for five-plus years!) in his third book, The Well-Fed
Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living (www.wellfedsp.com).
Angela K. Durden, author of children’s and business books, editor of a new
anthology of business essays, publisher, and businesswoman.
 “Only
a fool has himself as his editor.” You’ve finally finished your
book and you know it is ready for publication. But what will the paying public
think of your baby? This workshop will discuss the problems and pitfalls of
self-editing, the level of quality of editor to seek, benefits of hiring an
editor, different types of editing, styles of editing, and how many times a
book should be edited. Further information: www.angeladurden.com •
www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com • Twitter @lovedoggey
David Fulmer, Shamus winner, author of
several mysteries published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, now creating a new
publishing house in Atlanta, will cover new book publishing models. Topic:
"New Games in Town - The Shift in
the Publishing Paradigm"
David Fulmer is the author of six
critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels with Harcou rt
Books. He has been nominated for an LA Times Book Prize, a Barry Award, and a
Falcon Award, has won a Shamus Award, a Benjamin Franklin Award, and AudioFile
Golden Earphones Award, and has been nominated to numerous “best of” lists,
including Borders Books “Best of 2003 List,” Atlanta Magazine’s “2008
Best of the Shelf” and New York Magazine’s “Best Novels You’ve Never
Read.” Mostly recently, The Blue Door
was nominated for the 2009 Shamus Award for Best Novel.
His books have received superlative reviews from publications including
The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kirkus Reviews, The
San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, The Washington Post, BookList, The
Times Picayune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Detroit News, The Minneapolis
Star, The Plain Dealer, The Baltimore Sun, Paste Magazine, The Boston
Globe, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Telegraph (UK), The Sun-Sentinel,
and Publishers Weekly, and have been translated into Italian,
Japanese, and French. His seventh novel, The Fall, will be released in
March 2010 by Five Stones Press.
Explaining his presentation, David said, "The sea
change in the publishing industry is going to open new doors for fiction and
non-fiction authors alike." Along with partners Tara Coyt and Anna Foote, David
has entered this new realm and will discuss the ups and downs, challenges and
opportunities of creating a publishing house..
Ahmad Meradji, CEO, Apex Book
Manufacturing, "How To Get Your Self-Published Book Manufactured."
Ahmad Meradji has been involved in
digital printing from its inception at Xerox, providing customers with onsite
and offsite digital printing. He held vario us
management positions at Xerox, including the oversight of Internal document
printing. He was one of the individuals involved in setting up the first
digital book printing models at Xerox, later serving as a consultant in
digital document printing and production. He will discuss a brief history of
digital printing and identify the benefits of printing in digital format. In
addition to identifying specific activities that take place in an on-demand
book manufacturing environment, Mr. Meradji will detail how publishers and
authors can benefit from print on demand (POD) technology. Interested in
knowing how much it would cost to manufacture 50 copies of your book? 500
copies? 1,000 copies? Employees of Apex will be on site to provide you with
instant quotes.
Moderator:
Angela K. Durden, author
of children’s books, editor of a new anthology of business essays, publisher,
businesswoman.
Seminar attendees receive free admission to
the Spring Book Show - normally $75 per person.
ENROLL NOW
TO ASSURE A PLACE. SEATING IS LIMITED! You may enroll by clicking on
the appropriate button below, which will take you to our secure Web site.
Following
are the tuition fees for the Authorship 101 seminar for students.
If you register on or after
March 7 for both the Friday (Authorship 101) and Saturday (Authorship 201)
classes, the registration fee is $95.
If you register on or after March 7, 2010, for
the Friday (Authorship 101) classes only, the registration fee is $55.
Please note: Tuition will be refunded in full only if you
cancel 5 or more days before the seminar begins.
Have a question? Click on the
hyperlink below to send an email to seminar planners at Anvil Publishers in
Atlanta.
custserv@anvilpub.com
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You may be interested in attending both days of the
Spring Book Show Authorship seminars
Click
here to see the faculty
for the Authorship 201 classes on Saturday, March 27, 2010.
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