Saturday May 11th
MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME
9:15 - 10:00am
Setting Yourself Up For Long-Term Success In Your Wide Publishing Journey
It's not enough to just publish a great book and then sit back and wait for magic to happen; especially when it comes to making your book available on all of the wide platforms that exist beyond Amazon. As a writer you need to be an engaged and active participant in your book's success. This means employing dynamic marketing of your book in all its available formats and via all the ways that readers can discover and read your book, including not just the major retailers, but through libraries and other non-traditional platforms.
Join book industry veteran Mark Leslie Lefebvre as he walks through the landscape of wide publishing, sharing ideas and strategies that authors can use to build a long-term and successful wide publishing career.
10:15 - 10:30
Launch My Book
Laura and Joel Pitney are going to talk about their company, Launch My Book that helps authors with all aspects of the book publishing and promotion process–from copy editing and cover design to distribution, websites, marketing campaigns, and more–while providing personalized guidance every step of the way.
Laura & Joel Pitney
10:30 - 10:45
Using Online Promotions to Maximize you Book Marketing
Join Kerrie for an exclusive online session where she'll reveal insider strategies to leverage CraveBooks for impactful promotions, driving visibility and sales for your book. Learn how to efficiently schedule your promotions, freeing up more of your time to focus on what you love—writing!
11:00 - 11:45
Your Bestselling Book Launch
A step-by-step guide to launch a book to bestseller... even if you're starting from scratch. This author went from being a broke valet parker to a bestselling author. He's sold over 100,000 books using free and low-cost marketing strategies. Now he shares these strategies with fellow authors to empower them to turn their passion for writing into a thriving business.
12:00 - 12:45
Get More Visibility & Discoverability Online for Authors
Are you struggling, feeling invisible, and wondering what you can do to sell your books? Do you wish someone would tell you AND show you what to do next...and then next...and then next until you have a repeatable system that works for you? Ultimately, simplifying your marketing efforts leads to more time to write. That's the dream, after all! In this workshop by award winning speaker and marketing coach, Laurie Cooper, you will learn how to become more visible and discoverable online as well as how to connect with your ideal readers.
12:45 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:15
Building a Sustainable Indie Career
Being an independent author means nobody gets to tell you what to do. This is both the allure of indie authorship and its greatest challenge because it means you have to chart your own path. As tempting as it may be to implement some expert's system, first principles dictate that to build a sustainable indie career, you have to start with the subject that only you are an expert in: You. Melissa has earned a yearly six-figure net income for over a decade by doing exactly this, and she'll tell you how you can, too.
2:30 - 3:15
Elevating Your Publishing Mindset
Mindset is everything for professional writers.
The more successful you become, the more you realize that moving forward is less about your skills as it is your mind. If you feel like you’re stuck in a loop with your author life, then you’ve come to the right place.
In this presentation, the author taps into lessons he has learned from mentors and other successful authors. He uses these lessons daily to live his best life, find new success, and avoid burnout.
*Understand the 3 unexpected most important areas in your writing life that will hold you back if you don’t confront them head-on
*Learn how to look for opportunities even in the jaws of failure
*Discover the secrets to long-term happiness as a writer
There’s nothing “woo-woo” in this talk—only practical advice to help you get to the next level. Elevate your author mindset and you’ll find that anything is possible in today’s world of publishing.
3:15-3:30
Final Wrap up and Questions
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