How do you sustain an exciting and profitable career over many years? This workshop looks at everything from writing about subjects you’re passionate about to being market savvy and staying healthy and inspired.

Our keynote speaker for Young Author's Day is New York Times and bestselling author, Jason Reynolds, the 2020 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Reynolds is the author of thirteen books for young people, including his most recent, Look Both Ways: A tale told in Ten Blocks. 
An inspiring speaker, we were all moved to tears.

Attendees will conquer the demon of technology and learn how to confidently Do It Yourself set up and run their own podcast. This will broaden their market exposure and enhance their author platform. They will leave armed with an action plan and ideas for Promotions, Formatting, and Style.

Are you wondering if you can juggle writing for a trad with indie publishing? This workshop will help guide you through the process, looking at the pros and cons of traditional vs. indie, the importance of having a schedule, and the joy of having more control of your writing career.

Things we read and hear that could lead us down the wrong path. Authors need to focus on their own priorities and ignore all the noise that's distracting. What is important to YOU, the author?

This class will be a mixture of lecture and activities that exposes new and intermediate writers to the business of publishing: queries, agents, editors, publishers, contracts, debut publication, film/foreign rights and how writers make money/launch their careers. This class will focus on book-length fiction and non-fiction. Attendees can expect a crash course in talking and writing about their books in a professional way, identifying their markets, polishing their materials, targeting and querying agents, building on rejection, understanding the expectations of different publishers and the things to know to be savvy in early conversations with publishing professionals. The focus of exercises will include writing synopses, author bios and pitching.

Literary agent Elizabeth Kracht noticed that many manuscripts being rejected suffered similar, easy-to-solve problems. As a result, she began keeping a list, hoping to one day be able to share this feedback with writers struggling to understand why their work keeps receiving rejections. Based off her newly released The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript, this workshop will cover over 100 points for consideration before submitting to an agent, editor, or indie publishing, such as how to sharpen dialogue and prose, improving characterization, complicating plot, and much more. Elizabeth will also provide a Q&A segment toward the end of the workshop.

Writing experts tell you to write what you know. In order to distinguish yourself and your books from the gazillion others being published, they advise you to develop your unique voice. Turns out the same advice is true when it comes to deciding how to invest your time, talent and money so you stand out from the “pack.” Join two nationally bestselling authors, and a skilled public relations counselor, as they show you how to not only get readers to give your books a try but to convert them into dedicated fans.

How to get Publicity for your book- We teach a 20-minute course on how to write and pitch to the media. We help writers use their skill with query letters by dissecting a query letter to do a comparison between the two. We discuss basic terminology and the titles of who you should pitch and tips on how to present yourself. At the end of the seminar an email address will be given to an actual show so all the participants can send their completed pitch letters to garner some PR Exposure

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