together all the resources every author needs to succeed.
Meet and learn from Publishing Services Providers such as editors and graphic artists. Learn about helpful software products. Receive advice from those have gone before down the publishing path. Listen to published authors tell you how they broke into the publishing business and which pieces of their path are duplicatable and which are not! Find out how to get on the radio. Find out what you need to know to keep your printing costs low. More education available from ghostwriters, writing coaches, printers, publicists, publishers and other experts willing to give you valuable insight into your publishing project!
Needs to find out more about all the publishing choices in the marketplace today?
Needs supporting work on the book, such as editing, illustrations, indexing, cover design?
Has a book, already published and needs to sell more copies?
Needs to develop a speaking career and wants to write a book to sell at the back of the room?
Wants to hire help to sell the book you already have?
Wants to write a book, but needs some direction and clarification and validation that it will be worth while?
Needs a website, blog, social network personality?
Needs to know what publishers really want?
Loves to learn by learning from those who are farther down the path that you are?
Needs to know how to get book reviewers to review your book?
Needs to learn the ins and outs of the online book sellers like Amazon.com?
Would like create a digital property (e-book, audio-book)?
Whether you're at dream stage or have many books to your credit, the Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit can help. With over 25 service providers in as many disciplines, there will be worthwhile information for all authors to take 'it' to the next level.
Come to Lone Tree Colorado on April 28, 2012 and see what we mean when we say, "This is the largest free* author-centric event in the US!"
Mark your calendars for this free* event runs from 9am - 5pm and will feature dozens of local authors telling their path to being published and feature over 25 service providers most authors need to get started and to create a best-selling book.
The publishing business is vast and can be overwhelming - come learn more about it from the people who work in it every single day and want to give back to a creative community of authors!
*free - a donation of $10 per person at the door will be collected to donate to T.A.P.S.! Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
Writer's Summit Tip #24:
NEVER ASK WHY...
your book was rejected for publication. The publisher won't tell you and it will drive you crazy if you try and second guess the reason.
Just know that a publisher will only accept a book for publication if it is EXACTLY the right fit for them at EXACTLY the right time. Everything else gets rejected.
Don't take it personally, it has nothing to do with you. It has to do with their bottom line.
One story, from an editor who felt bad about rejecting manuscripts without explaining goes like this:
"I was a youngeditor and I asked if I could write a note on the rejection slip so the author wouldn't feel bad about the reason I had to reject their manuscript. My boss said not to, but I did anyway. What I got back surprised me. Instead of making the authors feel better, sometimes I enraged them and they wrote back to me to tell me I was stupid not to see the merit of their work. Othertimes, they wrote back pleading with me to change my mind. In all cases, I opened up a conversation that was going to go nowhere. It always ended badly. I stopped writing to authors after the first few times. I wish authors could understand, it never was about them or the merits of their work, it only had to do with our current agenda.
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Writer's Summit Tip #9:
Good book reviews are like gold - no matter who they're from, but they need to be managed wisely.
ONLY celebrity or highly credentialed reviewers go on the cover... Your most recognizable name goes on the front cover. Then if you have room on the back cover after the synopsis and abbreviated bio, put another review from a recognized source.
If you have 'reader's reviews' - they belong on your website, they deserve a blog entry recognizing their comments and commenting back, they can have a place inside your book in the first couple of pages, they definitely belong on amazon.com and bn.com and any other online book seller you are using. Amazon.com has taught us well that referrals are a great way to sell, so they highlight the reader's reviews and they really do wield buying power!
Another place to keep the reader's reviews is in front of you - pasted on your office walls. Keep these where you can see them and stay encouraged and inspired that your work is making a difference! It really does help - in many ways.
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