Presentations, Workshops, an Annual Retreat
Check out the annual retreat designed for new and newish writers of all genres: Write, Publish and Sell Your Book! How to do it from start to finish.
Lori also speaks on topics her clients and workshop attendees value most, including:
Writing
- Bump up your “street cred” by writing on your area of expertise
- Starting your non-fiction book; you’re farther along than you think!
- 4 BIG reasons why a business professional should write a book (or workbook or resource guide)
- Why your book is judged by its cover and interior layout – what to do about it and when
- 10 tips to convert your fiction story concept into a living, breathing, viable manuscript
- 5 things every fiction manuscript should have
- Why the heck does my fictional character need to go on a “journey”?
- Romance is alive and well in online and traditional bookstores
Publishing
- Defining and identifying that slippery beast: a publisher
- Choosing a publishing process to meet your (almost!) every need
- Self-publishing vs. submitting to a publishing house: the pro’s and con’s of each
- Pitches, queries, synopses and proposals – not as scary as you think!
- E-publishing: what it is, where it’s going, how you can benefit
- Book publishing jargon demystified!
- Book budgets for non-brainiacs
- How to get your romance published at a smaller house – and why you’d want to
Marketing
- Increase sales by promoting and selling your book before you write “The End”
- What to do now to increase sales later
- How to have successful book-signing events
- How to get independent booksellers to fall in love with – and sell – your book
- Online marketing and social networking: God’s gift to book promotion, or a necessary evil? Or both?
- Why you should – or shouldn’t – have a presence at the popular book promo sites
- Book launch tips, hints and stories from the trenches