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Control your creative destiny with a hands-on publishing workshop ...
- Tom Johnson -- a digital trailblazer -- leads this weekend workshop highlighting basic computer programs and techniques readily available to help you publish your novel, memoir, poetry, dissertation, cookbook. Photo collections, enhanced with your text, can be published, as well.
- Learn how to use the computer applications you already have to prepare and publish your manuscripts.
- Learn how free, on-line web applications can guide you though the formatting of your work so it will look good in print.
- Learn how those formatted pages, created with easily available word processing templates and including graphics, can be saved and uploaded to web-based, print-on-demand companies.
- Those pages become chapters that easily become hardcover or paperback books -- or an e-book -- available directly from your author-publisher's page and also listed on Amazon. You set the prices and the author's royalty, which is considerably more than traditional publishing house royalties.
- You will leave the workshop with rich introduction to the vocabulary and tools of Print-on-Demand publishing, a familiarity with using those tools, a detailed checklist of the self-publishing process and direct references to software and vendors to take your publishing skills to the next level.
- Lagniappe:
Learn how to project the statistical probability that your
title will be a best-seller on The
New York Times list. (Well, no
guarantees, but it's fun.)
Not for rank beginners: This is a fast-moving workshop, covering a semester's worth of instruction in a day, so we must request a certain level of computing skills. We assume you are comfortable connecting to a wireless network, with using a word process program and knowing how to set margins, select fonts, have used headers and footers, inserted and formatted page numbers and, ideally, have inserted some graphic images into your document. You should know something about downloading and installing computer programs from the internet and be familiar with uploading and downloading files. We hope you know how to save a file in different formats, especially PDF.
We expect that you will arrive quite comfortable and facile with the following computer and file management skills:- You can quickly view the hierarchy or "tree" diagram of your hard drive and its folders and sub-folders.
- You can move quickly from one drive to another, including a flash (or USB) drive
- You can quickly create folders and sub-folders
- You can save files in different formats
- You can rename files and, if necessary, place them in different sub-folders
Workshop attendees are asked to bring the following:
- A 3-4 page example of a manuscript that includes
- A chapter title
- One or two sub-headings within the chapter
- One or two images inserted in the text
- If you can bring a laptop with WiFi capability, that's great. If not, don't worry because we often will be asking you to work in two-person teams anyway.
Forthcoming:
- CANCELED -- California -- April 29, 2011: Register now for the one-day "Be Your Own Publisher" workshop in the California Gold Country
- Friday, April 29, 2011
- Mokelumne Hill, California
- $100 tuition for registration, including continental breakfast, lunch and 2GB Flashdrive; $125 tuition after April 15
- Limited
to
15 participants --
- CANCELED -- Oregon - May 6, 2011: Register now for the one-day workshop on the Oregon Coast.
Workshop Contacts:
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Presenter
Tom Johnson's 35-year
career in journalism has taken him
from the classroom to the newsroom and back. He began using computers
to tease meaning out of data while a Ph.D.
candidate in the early '70s and studying the impact of technology on
urban spaces. By the early '80s he was writing
about dedicated word processing systems (think $13,000 in 1978 dollars)
and covering the early stages of
personal computing in Silicon Valley for TIME and Popular Science.
He worked for Time
Magazine in El
Salvador in the
mid-'80s, was the start-up editor of MacWeek,
and
a deputy editor of the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. His areas of interest are analytic journalism, dynamic simulation models of publishing systems, complexity theory, the application of Geographic Information Systems in journalism and the impact of the digital revolution on journalism and journalism education. He is the founder and co-director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Website: www.jtjohnson.com E-mail: tom@jtjohnson.com |
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California
Workshop
coordinator Antoinette May's
second novel, The
Sacred Well, published by
HarperCollins in April 2009 is already garnering critical acclaim.
Antoinette turned to fiction with Pilate's Wife,
a tale of the Roman
Empire. The novel, published in November 2006 by William
Morrow, has been
translated into 18 languages.Antoinette's non-fiction includes the New
York Times best seller, Adventures
of a Psychic, a biography of
psychic Sylvia Browne.
Antoinette was the 1997 recipient of La Pluma
de Plata, an award conferred by the Mexican Government for the best
travel article on their country. Website: www.antoinettemay.com E-mail: toni@antoinettemay.com |
