The Insider’s Guide to Self Marketing Your Book with Cynthia Good

Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 10:00am

Trent University Oshawa - Room #110
55 Thornton Rd South
Oshawa, ON
L1J 5Y1

Create your own personal marketing plan that can be used alongside a publisher’s campaign, if you are self publishing, or to help you get noticed by editors. This intensive full day workshop will walk you through the steps to planning your writing promotion efforts. For fiction and non fiction writers.

Included in the exercises are:

• Changing trends and expectations for writers

• Overview of self-marketing techniques: websites, Facebook, Twitter, blogging, readings, book clubs, etc.

• Discussion of Query letters: what works, what doesn’t

• Instructions for creating your personal marketing plan and its timeline

• Write your plan!

• Presenting your plan and building its effectiveness with the group

Instructor: Cynthia Good, Humber’s Creative Book Publishing Program (former President & Publisher of Penguin Books).

Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Registration is limited! Please register early to avoid disappointment.

Registration: $95 non-members, $85 WCDR members.

More info: http://wcdr.ca/wcdr/?p=5597.