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Publishing/Self-Publishing Seminar Agenda
Publishing Workshop Agenda
Book Publishing 101
How to prepare a manuscript.
Word count versus page count
Font Size and spacing
Paper Weight
How to package your manuscript
How long should a manuscript should be?
Book proposals
Sending out your manuscript
Prepare query letter (sample provided)
Prepare synopsis (sample provided)
To whom do you send your manuscript?
Literary Agents
Do you need one?
How much do they charge?
How do you find one? (recommended agent list provided.)
How do you pick the right one?
Publicists:
Do you need one?
How much do they charge?
Royalties
Hardcover
Trade Paperback
Mass Market Paperback
Self-Publishing Workshop Agenda
Self-Publishing – (Print on Demand; Vanity Press; Traditional Self-Publishing)
Is it for you?
Are you aggressive enough?
Do you have the time?
Do you have the persistence?
Do you have the money?
Print on Demand
The Pros
The Cons
Can you be successful using Print on Demand?
Vanity Press
The Pros
The Cons
Can you be successful using Vanity Press?
Traditional Self-Publishing
The Pros
The Cons
Can you be successful using traditional self-publishing?
Steps for Self-Publishing
1. Find an editor (recommendation list provided)
2. Find three copy-editors
3. Pricing Your Book
4. ISBNs (fact sheet provided.)
5. Register for Books In Print (information on ISBN fact sheet.)
6. Get your EAN Bar Code (information on ISBN fact sheet.)
7. Find a cover illustrator
8. Find a typesetter
9. Find a printer (recommendation list provided.)
10. Create your galleys
Get Your Promotion Machine in Gear
1. Make flyers, posters, postcards, bookmarks
2. Make Press Kits
3. Put up a website
4. Send your press kit and galleys and press kits to the media
5. Introduce yourself to bookstore managers and give them galleys and press kit (bookstore list provided)
Book Distribution
1. Self-Distribution
a. Packaging and Sending Out Your Books
b. Set up a UPS account
2. Finding Book Distributors (recommendation list provided)
a. Traditional Distributors
b. Specialty Distributors
Getting the Word Out
Shameless Promotion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Internet Press Release
2. Building an email list.
3. Sending out promotional materials
4. Book Launch Party
5. Partnerships with Non-profits
6. Getting on the radio
.I hope by the time you leave this seminar you’ll all the information you need to get published. And good luck! I hope to you see your book on bookstores shelves soon!