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Self Publishing News
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| Self-Publishing Experience Day |
If you are thinking of going down the self-publishing route, but don’t know where to start then these sessions offer a valuable insight into what is involved and will reassure you that the process is not as daunting as you might imagine.
You will learn about how important the design of a book is, marketing tips and tricks and will get a unique insight into how a book is manufactured.
Attendance is completely FREE. Please visit the website below to register your place on the next session.
http://www.authorschoice.co.uk/experience-days.html
Thursday 14th April 2011 and attendance is free! The day will take place at Biddles the printers, in Kings Lynn. |
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| The Literary Consultancy Celebrates its 15th Birthday |
The celebratory events to be held in May are:
'How the Novel Works' a Master Class by Jacob Ross: 7th May, £75/£45, 10.30-4.30pm.
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'Are Short Stories the Form of the Future?' by Dame Margaret Drabble and Helen Simpson: 26th May, £10, 6.30pm-8.30pm.
For more information about these and other events visit the TLC Events page on www.literaryconstultancy.co.uk. Both events are at the Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA. |
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| M-Y Books launch Ipad App Short Story Competition |
M-Y Books is holding a competition for writers to enter their short stories for inclusion in the first volume in the series, with the winners not only having their short story published, but having an advert for their book (or author website) with live buy links.
Entry to the competition is £15 and is by email only [please attach a text document to the Email or put the story in the body of the email]. The word count can be up to 10,000 words and tales with a travel theme will be favoured (although all will be read and judged according to merit). Please email Jonathan@m-ybooks.co.uk for more information.
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| Getting Published. The Writers' Workshop to host Getting published day in London. |
The event aims to tell you everything you need to know prior to sending out your work. Is it ready to submit? Have you read the market right? Which agents should you approach (and do you need one at all)? And what do publishers want, anyway?
To guide you through all this, they've got some fabulous agents, publishers and book doctors on hand to give you all the help they can. The event is on Saturday 2 October at the Royal Overseas League in London. For more information go to www.writersworkshop.co.uk/index.asp
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| Siobhan Curham turns down book deal in order to self-publish |
| Dear Dylan' explores what happens when a fourteen year old girl turns to the internet for solace and strikes up a correspondence with a stranger. 'Dear Dylan' will be available to download from her website www.siobhancurham.co.uk for free. Having spent many years working in schools across London as a Writer in Residence, Curham was determined to allow as many teenagers as possible to access her book. |
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| Waterstone's buying policy |
| They have re-jigged their buying team and also given local managers more buying autonomy, allowing them to buy for the local market, rather than continuing with a central buying model. The changes will be rolled out to all stores in May. |
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| All change at Waterstone's. |
| This move is likely to be welcomed by self-publishing authors – who often have strong relationships with their local Waterstone's, but who can struggle to get their books noticed. Waterstone's have appointed Dominic Myers as the new Managing Director, following the departure of Gerry Johnson from the role. Myers has indicated he will review all aspects of the Waterstone's brand, and look at giving increased responsibility to local managers. |
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| Amazon to facilitate self publishing via the Kindle.
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| Borders in administration |
| After much speculation in the last few months, Borders finally called in the administrators last week. The administrators have already laid off many head office staff, and branches are expected to close in the run up to Christmas. For self-publishing authors it could be a potential disaster as Borders were always keen to support new authors with signings and in stocking their books. As the chain also bought direct from self-publishing authors, many are now likely to be out of pocket with books in store but no likelihood of payment being received. There is an outside chance that some branches may be bought by other retailers like Waterstones, but it is thought that most will close. |
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| Self-Published book raises money for Special School |
| The book has been produced to benefit Peter's daughter’s school, Mill Ford Special School, in Plymouth. This book has been self-published by Portal Writers (a writing group meeting at Southway, Plymouth). |
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| The Self Publishing Magazine at the London Book Fair.. |
| Planning ahead...! The Self Publishing Magazine will be at the London Book Fair (19-21st April 2010). You can find us on stand K300 in Earls Court! We look forward to seeing you there. |
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| Amazon.com select three self-published books as part of their Encore Program |
| It has identified the three self-published titles as books which had good future sale potential. AmazonEncore identifies promising self-published books and links up with the authors to republish them, promoting the titles and finding new readers for the books. |
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| Book covers - what do they say about your book? |
| The publisher chose a commercial cover design for a teen read - inadvertently causing a racial debate. for more info, click here.
You can hear the author’s opinion about this as she has posted her comments about the cover on her blog for more info, click here
The cover design process in a mainstream publishing house is very different than that undertaken by self publishers - one of the great joys for many self publishing authors is that they get to design their cover - but do self publishers get it wrong too?
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| Self published book wins prize. |
| Author, Richard Parkyn collected his award at during the award ceremony held at Waterstone’s in Truro. He said: “I’m absolutely delighted to have won the Children’s section prize of the Holyer An Gof awards. I had an immense feeling of satisfaction when the book had been printed, but then to actually have won an award makes the six years it took to get from idea to finished copy all the more worthwhile.”
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