I chose topics related to writing, publishing and book promotion because I was meeting (and continue to meet) so many hopeful and struggling
authors at book festivals, writers conferences, writing workshops and through SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network).
Not exact matches
Quinn loves
book festivals like Wordstock and listening to
authors speak
at Powell's.
The event attracts over 100,000 attendees and over 100
authors presented their
books at the two day
festival on the college campus.
Book publicity also includes the planning of
author events and appearances
at bookstores,
festivals, and various speaking venues.
Our
authors are frequently featured guests and speakers
at bookstores, libraries,
book clubs, conferences,
festivals and other rewarding events.
It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm
booking stalls
at every appropriate medieval
festival; it's a
book aimed primarily
at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about
author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events
at my first literature
festival next week to meet and network with local
authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).
Solutions commonly sets up shop
at book festivals as well as advertise in trade magazines, hoping to lure another
author to its deceptive business.
2) Launching a free local literature
festival to bring indie
authors, poets and illustrators to my community
at the Hawkesbury Upton Lit Fest, with no admission charges so that visitors could save their money to buy the speakers»
books instead.
Authors attending the
festival at Navy Pier will be eligible to receive their age in free
books when they agree to publish a
book with AuthorHouse.
We designed a cross-country tour for debut
author Jeff, with 20 - plus tour stops
at venues and
festivals, from Southern mega-fests like SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Association) and the venerable Southern
Festival of
Books book festival in Nashville, TN, to independent booksellers across the country, to more unusual but fitting venues like museums and Civil War reenactment
festivals.
She has been a speaker and panelist
at numerous
book festivals, has addressed scores of service organizations, is a past president of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association, a board member of Women Writing the West, and a member of the
Author's Guild.
Traditionally
authors connect up with agents
at writing
festivals or big events such as
Book Expo America.
As a native Arkansan, it was surreal to see Damien Echols, one of the members of the West Memphis Three and the
author of the memoir Life After Death, walking free on the stage of an auditorium
at a
book festival.
On Saturday morning of the
festival, Nina Cardona — a reporter on Nashville Public Radio and host of All Things Considered — interviewed four
authors at the Women's National
Book Association breakfast
at the Nashville Public Library.
Kate Atkinson tells Hay
festival she'd rather not be a published
author Her latest crime novel, When Will There Be Good News, picked up the best
book of the year gong
at the British
book awards last month, but the Whitbread prize - winner Kate Atkinson has admitted that she'd rather not be a published
author.
Book festival promoters spend months seeking
authors to speak and sign
at their events.
It can also be worth attending literary
festivals and
author conferences where agents offer one - to - one pitch feedback sessions — I'm doing an event like this at The London Book Fair called «The Write Stuff» as part of their Author HQ prog
author conferences where agents offer one - to - one pitch feedback sessions — I'm doing an event like this
at The London
Book Fair called «The Write Stuff» as part of their
Author HQ prog
Author HQ programme.
Book festival programmers (and, sometimes, programming partners) are responsible for selecting the list of
authors who appear
at the
festival and developing the other events.
Traditionally published
authors also do this through promoting each others»
books, forming groups that speak together
at festivals or doing
book signings together.
We're proud to have offered workshops, clinics and keynotes
at these outstanding conferences and
festivals: Writers Digest Conference Tucson Festival of
Books IBPA Publishing University Deckle Edge Festival SC
Book Festival Tallahassee Writers Conference Historical Writers of America (HWA) Publish15 Atlanta Historical Novel Society Conference Words & Music New Orleans SC Writers Workshop Chanticleer
Authors Conference PubSense: Emerging
Authors, Emerging Avenues Florida Writers Conference Atlanta Writers Conference Chicago Lawyers for Creative Arts Pat Conroy Literary Festival
Book Expo America Indie
Author Stage Killer Nashville
Award - winning publicist Charles A. Barrett has served as an invited speaker
at numerous literary events and also a talk panel member
at book and film
festivals in addition to also
authoring numerous articles for magazines and newspapers on the performing arts and
books.
Belinda Kroll presents How to Rock an
Author Festival with a Self - Published Book posted at Belinda Kroll, Books for Kids & Teens, saying, «Belinda shares key marketing pro-tips she learned from her teacher friend while visiting an author festival about how to stand out from the crowd.&
Author Festival with a Self - Published
Book posted
at Belinda Kroll,
Books for Kids & Teens, saying, «Belinda shares key marketing pro-tips she learned from her teacher friend while visiting an
author festival about how to stand out from the crowd.&
author festival about how to stand out from the crowd.»
Meanwhile, our calendar of
book festivals, conferences and writing competitions is busting
at the seams with hundreds of speaking and competition opportunities for
authors, many coming up this fall, so get to work and get a jump on your fall
book promotion!
By being featured
at this event, these
books were on display in the WestBow Press
Book Gallery, listed in the catalog made available as a free takeaway for
festival attendees and they were for sale in the Indie
Author Bookstore.
The three most outstanding picks of today's blog covers Amazon's operation outside the virtual realm, a new ad - based eBook subscription service, and an indie
authors» lessons on organizing their own event
at a
book festival.
Get Lit
at the Beach ~ A Gathering For Readers is one of only a handful like it in the entire country — a literary
festival that brings together
authors and readers to celebrate a mutual love of
books and reading.