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Sell Your Nonfiction workshops are one day long, containing 6 hours of instruction, plus a lunch break. For registration details or to bring this workshop
to your area, E-mail the author at lauriewsargent@aol.com CLASS DESCRIPTION What
skills, goals, and contacts will most likely help you get your nonfiction writing in print, in bookstores, and in readers’
hands? What is it like to be a nonfiction magazine article writer or book author? How time consuming is it?
Find out what it takes to get published
in magazines or gain a contract with a royalty publisher, and learn about what typically happens after your writing is accepted
for publication.
INSTRUCTOR Laurie Winslow Sargent is a magazine article
writer, book author, and public speaker with a background in occupational therapy, crisis work, and parenting. She has
been interviewed on radio talk-shows reaching listeners in nearly every US state and several countries.
Sargent
is the author of the hardcover book, The Power of Parent-Child Play (2003, Tyndale House Publishers) and the paperback Delight in Your Child's Design (2005, Tyndale/Focus on the Family) She has also contributed to various other books, and has been a freelance magazine
article writer since 1988. She has had 100+ articles in 28 different publications, with circulation ranging from 250,000
to over a million readers per issue. (See AUTHOR BIO)
The Sell
Your Nonfiction Workshops are also presented in a series of six, two-hour, weekly classes, as described
below. If you are interesting in bringing either the series or the one-day workshop to your area, E-mail the instructor.
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Sell Your Nonfiction
Class 1: Breaking Into the Writing Industry |
Intro to Pro Writing: Learn how to break into the writing industry with your magazine articles or books,
develop necessary writing/marketing skills, and find the best resources and connections to help you get published. |
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Sell Your Nonfiction: Class 2: Ideas/Formats |
Ideas and Formats: Turn your ideas into fun, saleable nonfiction. Learn about 8 types of nonfiction writing, including
personal experience, how-to, and humor, and the types of publishers who typically buy nonfiction material. |
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Sell Your Nonfiction: Class 3: Market Research |
Market Research: Find specific magazines and book publishers that most likely will purchase your writing and help you reach
your target audience. Utilize market listings, publisher’s guidelines, etc. to avoid time-wasting mistakes. |
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Sell Your Nonfiction: Class 4: Submissions |
Submissions: Learn how to format your queries, proposals, and manuscripts, which editors to send them to, and what happens
next, including editorial changes, potential "kill fees", and bylines. |
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Sell Your Nonfiction: Class 5: Publisher/Author Agreements |
Publisher/Author Agreements: What will you be paid for your articles or books, when, and how? Benefits other than monetary,
rights sold (selling the same writing more than once), and typical author promotions. Drawbacks /benefits in royalty publishing
Vs self-publishing. |
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Sell Your Nonfiction: Class 6: Book Marketing |
Book Marketing: How and why PR and writing must go hand in hand, even before you have written your book and especially
before it is in print, but also after publication. Tips on radio interviews author websites, book signings. Understanding
the industry, including the book distribution process and purpose of book conventions (CBA and ABA). |
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Sell Your Nonfiction:
Full Day Workshop |
A condensed version of the Sell Your Nonfiction series, with one hour devoted to each of the six topics,
plus Q&A. |
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