Focus on Self-Publishing

Self-publishing is a fast-growing industry. It's not as simple as people think. There are pitfalls and technical terms that many people don't know about until they start the process. 
Join us in an intensive full day workshop with visiting industry professionals Debbie Lee from IngramSpark, author Rebecca Lang, and Linda Nix from Golden Orb Creative to learn all about the ups and downs of self-publishing.

This workshop covers all you need to know for a self-publishing project, including:
  • self-publishing models and how these compare to traditional publishing
  • preparing your content: legal issues, editing, pre-production formatting of files and images
  • financing the project: how production decisions affect your bottom line, pricing your book, preparing an overall budget
  • producing the book: technical specifications for print and ebook formats, working with designers, printers and other suppliers
  • marketing and selling your book. 
Rebecca will talk about her own journey, the stages of the self-publishing process, the importance of good editing and book design, and how to excel in marketing your work. Rebecca is also a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors, a global non-profit association for self-publishing writers. She will talk about the challenges of being a business-minded author, and the benefits of belonging to ALLi, which promotes excellence and ethics in self-publishing; supports authors in the making and selling of their books and licensing of their rights; and advocates for author independence through the building of sustainable digital businesses.

Debbie will talk about:
The indie author/small press business model
Production process; deciding on format; costs and quotes
Print-on-demand or offset or both
Building your author platform
Reaching a global retail sector.
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When: 9th of November
           9am-4pm
Where: Armidale Ex-Services Memorial Club
              137 Dumaresq St
How much: $110 for NEWC members, $140 for non-member               
Click HERE to book!
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Debbie Lee is Senior Manager, Content Acquisition and Business Development with Ingram Lightning Source. Formerly and academic publisher and a trade sales representative, Debbie has seen the world of publishing change dramatically over her 30 year career. She considers the advent of print-on-demand and global distribution among the most significant contributing factors, giving the indie author and smaller press the same capabilities and access to market as the traditional, mainstream publishing house.
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Rebecca Lang is a writer and editor living in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
A former journalist, she decided to turn her skills to self-publishing while trying to get her manuscript on the folklore surrounding the mysterious ‘Australian big cat’ published.
Together with her co-author with Michael Williams, she has published Australian Big Cats: An Unnatural History of Panthers (Strange Nation 2010), which pieced together the legend of Australia's mysterious 'black panther', and co-wrote the foreword for and re-released the cult classic Savage Shadow: The Search for the Australian Cougar (Strange Nation 2011). Most recently she edited a thought-provoking collection of essays about the Thylacine, The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant? (Strange Nation 2014).
She also writes under the pen name R.R. Lang and has authored several short works of fiction including Army Dreamers (Strange Tales 2014), and most recently edited and published the ghost story anthology Dark Spirits (Strange Tales 2018).
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Linda Nix has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years in a range of editing and publishing roles. Her freelance business, Golden Orb Creative, provides a full range of book editing and production services for both print and ebooks and she has worked with self-publishing authors of both fiction and non-fiction. She has also run a small press, Lacuna, since 2012.