Fall Classes
Fall Classes
Getting Started in Self-Publishing
with Libby Waterford
September 25th, 8pm - 10pm EST
On Zoom
Self-publishing curious? Get a top-level view of what it takes to self-publish today combined with detailed insights from an experienced indie author. Whether you're hoping to publish a novel, a memoir, or a non-fiction title, learning about self-publishing can clarify your path to publication. We'll cover practical topics like knowing when your project is ready to publish, working with editors and designers, how to package, format, and distribute your book, and how marketing fits into the picture. We'll also talk candidly about what all of this costs in dollars and time. Self-publishing allows you to retain control and can enable a sustainable publishing career, but it requires commitment and an entrepreneurial mindset. Join us to get started!
About Libby: Libby Waterford is the author of the Sawyer’s Cove: The Reboot and the Never a Bride series. She’s obsessed with her pollinator garden, DIY fermentation, and writing swoony first kisses and hopeful happily ever afters. Her steamy contemporary romances mix witty banter and all the feels with a solid dollop of good old-fashioned sexual tension. Libby has taught craft and self publishing classes for the Westport Writers' Workshop, Women's Fiction Writers Association, Contemporary Romance Writers, and many more. She wrangles her two ever-growing sons and a husband in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Registration Fee: $125
If you cannot attend live, you will receive a link to the recording. The recording will be available for 30 days.
Register here
How to Get a Book Deal the Easy Way
with Leigh Stein
Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024
5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST
Agents get up to 100 queries in their inbox every day. Book editors get dozens of submissions each week. It isn’t the most beautifully written 300-page manuscripts that rise to the top—in the era of short attention spans, it’s the killer concept that sells. Learn how to answer the question, “What’s your book about?” in a way that makes an agent or an editor think, I need this in my life IMMEDIATELY, in this master class taught by Leigh Stein, the author of six books and a coach whose clients have sold projects to imprints of Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster. Writers at all stages of the publishing process—whether you're drafting your manuscript, querying agents, or about to have your debut published—can benefit tremendously from thinking about their book from a reader's point of view. This is for fiction and non-fiction writers (poets also welcome!). Conceptualizing a book gets at the paradox at the heart of book publishing: your book must be totally original and similar to something that's already popular. By the end of this master class, writers will be able to describe their own book in a succinct and compelling way. Please note: this master class does not include personal feedback on your concept from Leigh. Students should come prepared with a list of three to five comp titles, in their category, published in the last three to five years.
Registration Fee: $150
If you cannot attend live, you will receive a link to the recording. The recording will be available for 30 days.