ATLANTA, Ga. – As part of its responsibility as the designated small press representative for the 2008 Spring Book Show at the Georgia World Congress Center, Anvil Publishers, and its flagship Southern Review of Books newsletter, have organized three seminars to help aspiring writers and publishers.
According to Southern Review editor Noel Griese of Tucker, seminar attendees get free admission to the three-day Spring Book Show held in Hall B of the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. Normal admission is $50. Vendors at the show will be offering more than 50,000 titles to hundreds of buyers from around the world.
Seminar 1, Griese said, is a two-day event entitled "Writing, Editing, Publishing and Marketing Your Book." Instruction will take place March 28-29, and is designed to familiarize students with the latest information on writing and selling books, with emphasis on marketing. Among the 18 scheduled presenters are Ed Nawotka, southern correspondent, Publishers Weekly, and book columnist, Bloomberg News; Ahmad Meradji, CEO, Apex Book Manufacturing (short-run four-color digital book manufacturer of Alpharetta, Ga.); Chris Staros, award-winning graphic novels publisher from Marietta, Ga.; and John Shableski of Maryland-based Diamond Book Distributors.
Seminar 2 is a one-day March 29 workshop entitled "How To Prepare Your Book for the Market: Writing a Killer Proposal and Editing the Manuscript for Maximum Marketability."
Seminar 3, scheduled for March 28, is a one-day practical workshop on "Earning a Comfortable Living through Freelance Writing and Self-Publishing."
Details are available from Anvil Publishers or at www.anvilpub.com.
