Great American Bargain Book Show
Authorship 101 Seminar

"How To Become a Successful Author"

August 21, 2009
Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St. Boston, Mass. 02115

Official hotel: Sheraton Boston, with indoor access to Hynes Convention center

You're invited to the Great American Bargain Book Show Authorship 101 Seminar on Friday, August 20, 2010. Following is the agenda, including faculty, topics and times.

Enrollment information appears below the agenda.

Seminar attendees receive free admission to the Great American Bargain Book Show - normally $75 per person.

Instructors

Rita Schiano, author, freelance writer and host of “Talk To Me...” on BlogTalkRadio, speaking on "Authors and Social Media - BlogTalkRadio."

Rita Schiano is a freelance writer and the author of two novels, Sweet Bitter Love and Painting The Invisible Man. She has also written two full-length screenplays and one television pilot. A former New York City Jazz singer, Rita is a published songwriter as well. She is currently at work on a new novel, From Hell to Heaven in Five Hail Marys. Rita has interviewed a wide range of successful authors for her weekly BlogTalkRadio show, “Talk To Me...Conversations With Creative, Unconventional People.”

Among the topics she will cover in her presentation are:

• Finding shows that are right for you
• Pitching to the media
• The benefits of prepared a media questionnaire
• Preparing for the interview
• Saving the interview: What to do when the interviewer is unprepared

Nina Anderson, publishing house CEO, author of 17 books and commercial jet pilot, "What a publisher advises writers to do to assure the success of their book before they ever pick up a pen."

Nina Anderson is a specialist in performance nutrition certified by the an International Sports Science Association. A nationally acclaimed researcher, author, television and radio personality, Nina has reached thousands of listeners. A retired corporate jet pilot, she has flown Gulfstreams, Citations and the Hawker. The last is the airplane in which she set the action in her novel 2012 Airborne Prophesy. She has been an active researcher in the alternative health field for over 20 years, and has co-authored 17 books including Worse Than Global Warming, Atlantis Today - The USA, Low Carb and Beyond, Cancer Disarmed, ADD, The Natural Approach, Super Nutrition for Dogs n’ Cats, Nutritional Leverage for Great Golf and Analyzing Sports Drinks. Nina has a BA from Monmouth College. Her television credits alone include appearances on Week-End Today, NBC N.Y.; WNYT, Albany N.Y.; Vision Quest, Chicago, Ill.; WTNH, New Haven Conn.; and many others.

In addition to her main topic, advice from a publisher, Nina will cover how to look at your book as a product (especially if you are writing a memoir), and will draw on the experience of Nova Hall (grandson of the designer of the Spirit of St. Louis) and what he had to go through to tell his grandfathers story.

Erica Ferencik, comic novelist, "Is self-publishing right for you? Tales from the DIY trenches."
 

 

Erica Ferencik is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker and standup comedian. A featured guest on NPR's "Morning Stories," her satiric novel, Cracks in the Foundation, was published by Waking Dream Press in the summer of 2008. Called "hilarious" by Alex Beam of the Globe, the novel features Ginger Kanadoo, a hapless, desperate realtor who will stop at nothing to seal a deal. Erica is Boston-based and has a BFA in painting and an MA in creative writing from Boston University. She ghosted a novel called The Mutation for Katherine Applegate's best selling young adult s/f series "Animorphs." A prizewinning screenwriter, her feature comedy Mob Dot Com (co- written with comedian Rick D'Elia) was optioned by Goodman Productions. Her novella The Inheritance was a finalist in the 2004 Malahat Review Novella Competition. She's written sketch comedy and performed standup comedy for over twelve years at major venues in Boston and throughout New England. She wrote and performed several radio pieces for WGBH (Boston NPR affiliate) for "Morning Stories."

Among the topics she will cover in her presentation are:

• What is the definition of self publishing?

• What are the benefits of pursuing self publishing as opposed to following the traditional pathways to being published: that is: search for an agent who submits to established publishing houses?

• Why is it easier to sell nonfiction rather than fiction? What are some good marketing strategies? 

• Should I publish print on demand only? Offset? A combination? What about distribution? Will I have a presence in the brick and mortars?

• We’ve all heard the success stories of self published books being picked up for a handsome sum by major publishers. How did these sales come about and what are realistic expectations as a new publisher/author?

• What kind of investment: time and money, can I expect to make if I self-publish?

• The critical importance of planning, organization, research, patience and mind-boggling persistence.

Noel Griese, author of 17 books and editor of the Southern Review of Books, "The biggest revolution in book publishing since Gutenberg - understanding the changes"

Noel Griese, editor of the Southern Review of Books, published monthly in Atlanta, Ga., has three degrees in journalism and English from the University of Wisconsin, where he was elected to both the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. During his career, he has been a newspaper reporter and editor, a radio newscaster, a U.S. Army officer, a journalism professor at the Universities of Wisconsin and Georgia and a public relations executive. The author of 17 nonfiction books and numerous articles, he is president and CEO of Anvil Publishers, which is currently marketing $15.7 million in books and $8.5 million in literary properties. In addition to brokering books and manuscripts, Anvil offers for sale to larger publishers a number of small publishing houses and other properties.

Noel will speak on "The biggest revolution in book publishing since Gutenberg - understanding the changes."

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