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.

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 Harcourt 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 various 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.

If you register on or after March 8 for both the Friday (Authorship 101) and Saturday (Authorship 201) classes, the registration fee is $95.

If you register on or after March 8, 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