Calgary Marketing and Publishing Workshop

July 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Pain-free Simple Ways to Successfully Publish and Market Your Book

Your manuscript is complete. Now what? Where do you start? Who do you trust? What’s next?

This workshop will give you inside information about how the industry is changing and what that means for you and maybe your pocketbook (it's a good thing!). You'll be armed with the options and tools you need to make your book a success—concrete information you can put into action immediately.

Publishing is changing and so are reader habits. You’ll learn how to stay relevant in today’s marketplace with low-cost to no-cost innovative ways to publish and market your message. This workshop will also help you plug into the new wave of social media and use it to your advantage, including combining it with traditional methods that let you keep your wallet in tact.

Points we’ll touch on:
• Publishing options
• How the publishing industry works
• How to find a publisher
• The process of publishing: Working with editors, graphic designers, and printers
• Traditional marketing and bookselling
• Electronic marketing is not just about websites
• Where you can maximize your exposure–for free
• Email marketing
• Social Networking: why, how, and what not to do)

When and where:
August 25, 2011
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Danish Canadian Club, Calgary, Alberta
727 - 11 Avenue SW

Includes:
Continental breakfast
Buffet lunch
Pastries, refreshments, etc. during session
Marketing e-book
Other course materials

Investment:
$150.00 per person
Includes GST

Early bird investment if you sign up before August 1: $127.00 per person

How to sign up:
Mail a check or money order to:
Freelance Communications
3220 – 25A Street SW
Calgary, Alberta T3E 1Z9

Send an Interac bank payment using delicksen@shaw.ca

Pay by credit card via PayPal:
(Direct link: http://0313f1d.netsolhost.com/WordPress/?page_id=698)  

Presenter Debbie Elicksen is Canada’s Publishing Expert. She has helped guide authors and publishers through hands-on involvement, consulting, speaking and training, and step-by-step guides. She has edited, ghosted, and project managed over 100 books, including 10 of her own. Her bestselling Self-Publishing 101 (Self-Counsel Press – still available Self-Counsel and Amazon) and Book Publishing 101 (through Booklocker.com) have helped make several books come true. Elicksen was a sports writer covering the National Hockey League for over 20 years and currently writes for the Hockey Canada Alumni Association.

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As Canada’s Publishing Expert, Debbie has helped make books come true all over North America from working one-on-one with authors, through workshops and seminars, or her bestselling book “Self-Publishing 101.” She has authored, edited, ghosted, and project managed well over 100 books, and has produced ten of her own.

Her author list includes professional speakers Alvin Law, Merge Gupta Sunderji, Brian Lee, Cory Johnson; Rose Sangregorio, founder of the Metaphysical Center of Canada; Altitude Publishing (editor for a number of the Amazing Stories series); Tourette Syndrome specialist Dr. Duncan McKinlay; Calgary mayor candidate Wayne Stewart, and many more.

As a New Media Missionary, she helps entrepreneurs and authors navigate the new media landscape and make it relevant.