April 11, 2018
"How to get more book sales" A panel of four of our members will talk about their sales techniques and how they have been successful in increasing book sales. The primary focus will be on how their sales at the Farmer's Market increased by using certain techniques. However, sales is sales, once you know how to sell your books, you can sell them anywhere. There will be plenty of time for questions and comments from the members and guest.
We will also spend some time discussing the new ideas for next year's anthology. New guidelines have been recommended but are subject to the approval of the members. To have a voice in this decision, be sure and make this meeting.
June 13, 2018 Meeting
Timothy Jacobs will be combining two of his presentations into one. "Your Writing Is Your Business" and "I've Written My Book, Now What?" he will cover making writing your business. If you want to succeed as a writer, you need to treat your writing as a business. You’ll learn a variety of tips, ideas, and things you must do to turn your writing into a business. Then he will go in-depth on what to do after you’ve finished the fun part of writing your book. He’ll discuss all the steps involved leading up to searching for a publisher or agent, and the differences between self-publishing and traditional publishing. Also, tips on how to market your book.
T.M. Jacobs, a native to the shoreline area of Connecticut, now resides in southwest Florida with his fiancé. He has published nine books, over 400 articles published in various newspapers and magazines, teaches classes on writing and publishing, and currently is the owner of Jacobs Writing Consultants. He is the founder and former editor for Patriots of the American Revolution magazine and has been a freelance writer for over 30 years. His book, The 1864 Diary of Civil War Union Soldier Sergeant Samuel E. Grosvenor: A first-hand account of the horrors at Andersonville Prison is a biography of Grosvenor who kept a small diary while in the Andersonville Prison. This title was featured on C-SPAN2 TV.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-jacobs-a47a761/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JacobsWritingConsultantsLlc/
Twitter: @Jacobs1776Tim
Website: www.jacobswc.com
Email: tjacobs@jacobswc.com
December 13, 2017 Meeting
Bill Green, from the Marco Eagle shared with us what the newspaper is looking for in submissions, who to get them to and the goals of the Marco Eagle.
We also enjoyed a Holiday party and Nominated the 2018 Board and Committee Chairman.
A special thanks to Pauline Hayton for was our editor for four years for the Marco Island Anthologies.
March 14, 2018.
RITA award winner Laura Drake shared her Tortoise’s Story – how to keep writing no matter what. Laura says that Publishing is more of a full marathon than a sprint. It was 15 years and 417 rejections before her first contract resulted in success. In this inspiring talk, Laura will tell her story, and give tips to help you survive the race, and keep you writing. She also lead the group in a Query Letter workshop after her talk. The RITA is awarded by the Romance Writers of America to promote excellence in the romance genre by recognizing outstanding published romance novels and novellas. The award itself is a golden statuette named after RWA's first president, Rita Clay Estrada, and has become the symbol for excellence in published romance fiction. Query Letters propose writing projects to editors in anticipation of their purchasing and publishing a writers work and are an integral part of the process in obtaining success as an author. Laura Drake’s list of accomplishments include her sweet series, The Sweet Spot (2013), Nothing Sweeter (2014) and Sweet on You (2014 RITA Award); Her Road Home, The Reasons To Stay, Twice In A Blue Moon, & Against The Odds (Harlequin); A foray into Women’s Fiction resulted in Days Made of Glass (Harlequin). Laura has recently signed to write three more books for Grand Central and has given up the corporate world to write full time.
January 10, 2018
Understanding your characters. We spent the meeting discussing how to get to know your characters, Members were presented with a Character Profile taken from the back of the Positive Trait Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Guglisi.
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FEBRUARY 21, 2018
We were so excited to have author, Patricia Sands at our meeting. She spoke about how she started in Indie publishing, but after learning to "brand" herself using social media like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, she was approached by Lake Union Press, an Amazon corporation, and signed a contract with them. You can learn more about her on her website
PatricaSands,Author.com She also gave us a wonderful resource list that you can find on our Resource Page.
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May 9, 2018
Review of three great literary works. We read and discussed the style of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (1894), A Clean Well-Lighted Place
by Ernest Hemingway (1933) and Letter to my Daughter - Home by Maya Angelou (2008). We compared them to the 6 point rubric we are now using to examine our own work. After this discussion, three members read pieces of their WIP (Works in Progress): Mersopn Neisner, Dennis Albrright and Rich Goldhaber