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Where:
Royal Canadian Legion, Norwood Branch 178
(venue to be
confirmed)
11150 - 82 Street
Edmonton, Alberta
When:
Friday/Saturday, October 8 and 9, 2010
How to Develop Your Manuscript
Friday, October 8, 2010 from
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Includes
refreshments and hors d'oeuvres
Other course
materials
$50.00
Book Publishing 101/Marketing
Your Book
Saturday, October 9, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Includes
Continental breakfast and cold lunch
Copy of
Book Publishing 101 Second Edition e-book
Other
course materials
$150.00
Both days:
$175.00
Friday's workshop will
help you with:
Developing the story
Writers’ block
Using ideas from other writers
Plagiarism, permissions, and credits
Learning to organize
Tools for crafting
Easy editing tips to improve your literacy
skills by 25 percent
Have an idea for a book, but
don't know how to get started? Learn how to
outline your material, define the research, put
the project in action, and break the manuscript
down into manageable pieces and sections for
paragraph and chapter development. Whether your
book will be fiction or non-fiction, developing
your manuscript will seem less onerous as you
start to tie the pieces together.
If the
thought of writing makes you nervous, that you
don’t think you have anything to write about, then
I will help you find your confidence by guiding
you to conquer that fear.
Saturday's
workshop will:
Dispel the myths about publishing
Show you what's involved with getting a
book to print
Give you inside information about how the
industry is changing and what that means
for you (it's a good thing!)
Help you harness the fear of marketing
your book and open the door to an endless
array of low cost to NO cost ways to plant
the marketing seeds
Arm you with the options and tools you
need to make your book a success
Provide no bull and give you concrete
information you can put into action
immediately
You will be guided through the book publishing
minefield and save yourself a ton of money and
grief.
You’ll learn stuff that royalty published
authors and the traditional publishing industry
don’t necessarily want you to know.
Workshop
itinerary:
Friday 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM:
Ideas about what to write about when you don’t
have a clue
Harnessing the fear of crafting that manuscript
Easy organizing tips
Saturday 9:00 AM to noon:
The book publishing industry and how it works
How to find a publisher and get on top of the
slush pile
Learning the process of how a book is published
What options are out there?
What’s on the horizon in the industry that you
can take advantage of
Noon to 1:00 pm:
Lunch break
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm:
How to tackle that dreaded marketing plan
Follow the message
The world is changing and you might as well
change with it
How to be seen and heard and be everywhere at
the same time
How to
sign up:
Both days $175
Friday $50
Saturday $150
Mail a check or money order to:
Freelance Communications
3220 – 25A Street SW
Calgary, Alberta T3E 1Z9
Pay by credit card via PayPal:
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