Karen E. Quinones Miller will host a “Get Started Writing Your Novel” seminar on Saturday, March 27th, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. and a guide to “Publishing/Self-Publishing” seminar on Sunday, March 28th, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Karen is a nationally known literary consultant who wrote and self-published Satin Doll , her first novel, in 1999 and sold 3,000 copies in six weeks, ultimately selling 28,000 copies in eight months before selling the publishing rights to Simon & Schuster for six figures the following year . Please visit kmpublishingbootcamp.com for more information.
Miller went on to publish six more best selling books with Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, and Grand Central Books. All of her novels have been Essence bestsellers, and have also been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction. Karen is a literary agent, the head of Eveningstar Writer’s Group, and is the CEO of Oshun Publishing Company.
Admission to each seminar is limited to 15 people. The cost for one seminar is $85.00, and for both seminars, the cost is $150.00.
You can obtain information about registering for the seminars by contacting Karen at authorkeqm@aol.com.
The Publishing/Self-Publishing seminar will include:
Publishing Segment
Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission
The Art of Writing A Query Letter
The Purpose of Book Proposals (and who needs them)
Royalty Rates offered by Mainstream Publishing Houses (and how they figure out how much of an advance to give you!)
Finding A Literary Agent
Promoting Your Book
Self-Publishing Segment
Starting Your Publishing Company
Obtaining Your ISBN and Bar Code
What is Editing
Typesetting Your Manuscript
Finding Printers
The Estimated Cost to Self-Publish a Book
Getting Your Book Into Book Stores
Guerilla Marketing Techniques
The Get Started Writing Your Novel seminar will include:
Getting Started
Point of View
Character Development
Showing Versus Telling
Story Structure
Dialogue
Setting a Scene
Overcoming Writer’s Block
“If you’re a writer, and you’re serious about getting your work published . . . then these are the seminars for you!” Karen E. Quinones Miller
