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Spring Book Show
2010 Authorship 201 Seminar
"How To Become a
Successful Author -
Getting Down to Business"
Saturday, March 27,
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.
ENROLL NOW
TO ASSURE A PLACE. SEATING IS LIMITED!
You're invited to the Spring Book Show Seminar on
Friday, March 26, 2010. Following is the agenda,
including faculty, topics and times.
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Presenter |
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10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Chris Roerden, author of several books on editing
and how to get published, including Don’t Murder Your Mystery and
Don’t Sabotage Your Submission. Topic: "Secrets of Surviving the
Manuscript Submission Process."
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11:00 a.m. - noon |
Chris Roerden, "How to Make a Good Living as a
Ghost-writer"
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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. |
Chris Roerden, "Become the Master of Dialogue, Description, and Show
v. Tell."
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2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Tony Burton, publisher and author who resides in
Ranger, Ga. Topic: "Conflict as the Foundation," about using conflict as
the driving force to build a good story and keep readers interested.
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3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
Break
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3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. |
Dr. David Ryback, author of five books on various aspects of
psychology, sixth due out shortly. Topic: “The Six Important Steps to
Getting Published Despite All Obstacles: Conceptualizing,
Scheduling, Writing, Titling, Agenting and Re-writing.”
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Instructors
Tony Burton,
CEO of book publisher Wolfmont LLC, “Conflict as the Foundation”
Tony Burton
is the author of over 160 published articles and short stories in such
publication s
as Writer’s Journal, Reflection’s Edge, Woman’s World,
Great Mystery and Suspense, Focus On Your Child, and others,
including seven anthologies, two novels and one collection of his own short
stories. He is an editor, small-press publisher and an award-winning
author. His company’s imprints are Wolfmont Press, Honey Locust Press and
Denouement Press. Wolfmont’s Dying in a Winter Wonderland, published in
2008, was the only small-press title on the Independent Mystery Booksellers
Association’s 2008 Top Ten Bestsellers List. He lives and works in Ranger,
Ga., in the mountains of northwest Georgia.
In his
presentation, Tony will discuss how to use conflict as the foundation for
building a good story, using examples from both classic and modern literature
and providing ways to follow those examples in your own writing.
Conflict is often seen as a negative, as something we want to
avoid. But for writers, conflict can be a powerful tool to motivate
characters, moving them toward the story’s inevitable denouement. It is also
one of the most powerful ways of keeping readers interested in your story and
prodding them to turn the page to see what happens next.
Chris Roerden
is the author of two books on self-editing and how to get published:
Don't Murder Your Mystery, an Agatha Award-winner, and Don't Sabotage
Your Submission, a Benjamin Franklin Award-winner.
Chris
Roerden has worked in publishing 44 years and edited authors published by
St. Martin's Press, Berkley Prime Crime, Viking, Rodale, Midnight Ink, Intrigue,
Walker & Co., and many others. Chris is past president of the former MAPA, a
midwest trade association of 250 commercial and university presses founded by
John Kremer. Most of her workshops for writers are booked a year or more in
advance at www.writersinfo.info.
Chris
will make three one-hour presentations in the Authorship 201 seminar
on Saturday, March 27. Her topics are:
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"Secrets of Surviving the Manuscript Submission Process."
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"How
to Make a Good Living as a Ghost-writer"
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"Become the Master of Dialogue, Description, and Show v. Tell."
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Dr. David Ryback, CEO, Apex Book
Manufacturing, "How To Get Your Self-Published Book Manufactured."
David Ryback,
Ph.D., is the author of over 60 professional articles and innumer able
book reviews in such publications as Psychology Today, The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, AHP Perspective
and Business to Business magazine among others. He has been a professor
at the University of Maryland (Overseas Division), the University of West
Georgia, Georgia State University and Emory University. He earned his B.Sc.
with honors in psychology at McGill University, his M.S. at San Diego State
and his Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of Dreams That
Come True (Doubleday, 1988), Look 10 Years Younger/Live 10 Years
Longer (Prentice Hall, 1995), Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998), Love, Sex and Passion for the Rest of Your
Life (Humanics, 2003), ConnectAbility (McGraw-Hill, 2010) and
co-author of Psychology of Champions (Praeger, 2008). In his
presentation, he will cover the six
important steps to getting published :
| How to formulate a
saleable concept that’s a potential best-seller |
| How to devise a schedule
of writing that’s doable despite your busy world |
| How to get the project
written in a reliable mode according to that schedule |
| How to get the perfect
title that will make the book spring off the shelf |
| How to find your agent
despite a cruel, rejecting marketplace |
| How to re-write your
masterpiece so it overcomes all the obstacles, using agents, editors and
other critics as free consultants |
Moderator:
Bobbie
Christmas, editor par excellence and author of several books on the art of copy
editing.
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 Saturday (Authorship 201) 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 101 classes on Friday, March 26, 2010.
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