Creating, Publishing, and Selling Children’s Picture Books Join us on Zoom for our monthly meeting! See below for Reservation & Payment details* Jesse Byrd will present “Creating, Publishing, and Selling Children’s Picture Books” at the Tri-Valley Writers May meeting. We will explore how to create, publish, market, and sell your children’s picture book from inspiration to completion. […]
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Mahbod Seraji, author of Rooftops Of Tehran, will discuss the various routes to publishing in his topic, “The Journey: Writing to Publishing.” Seraji believes that regardless of what vehicle you use to get your book out there, you need to act like the CEO of your own book. He will share his experiences from the
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Alan Rinzler, a consulting editor, will speak to local writers Saturday, Feb. 17, about “how valiant agents and publishers are still taking chances on debut writers despite the dwindling unit sales and net profits of the book business today.” Rinzler will also discuss his 56 years of experience as Assistant Managing Editor at Simon and
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Gordon Burgett will show you the way to sell 75% of almost anything you write as the guest speaker for the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Burgett has published 1,700+ articles and 46 books, plus offered over 2,000 professional paid presentations.
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D. Patrick Miller and Sari Friedman will be guest speakers at the next monthly meeting of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, October 18 at 2:00 p.m., at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Before founding Fearless Books in 1997 to continue the publication of his writing, D. PATRICK MILLER sold three solo projects to major publishers:
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Patricia Marshall will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, September 21, 2013, at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Writer and editor Patricia Marshall, who has helped more than a dozen authors self-publish, will walk you through the steps you need to
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Steve Workman has a chapter, “A Survival Guide to M&A,” included in the published book, “Tips from Top Financial Officers.” You can find the Kindle edition on Amazon.
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Jennifer Basye Sander will be speaking about avenues for becoming published at our next monthly meeting on February 16, at 2 pm at the Four Points Sheraton on Hopyard in Pleasanton. She is the author of more than 50 books including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published, the bestseller Christmas Miracles (1997) and her
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If I had to pick the most exciting half hour of my summer, I’d choose the thirty minutes I spent with Kyle Pressley, a man not my husband. We connected. He understood me. I was head over heels in love with his machine. That would be the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), one of the newest
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With the publishing world in turmoil over the future of paper books – real books to many of us – I started thinking about the first great revolution in publishing. The printing press brought book ownership to the masses, which is good. Literacy spread; also good. There was a down side, however. While the Bible
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