Learn the Craft and Business of Memoir

The Ink Spot 2730 Historic Decatur Road - Barracks 16 #202, San Diego, CA, United States

Traci Foust wasn't a "normal" seven-year-old girl. When all the neighborhood kids were playing outdoors, Traci was inside making sure the miniature Catholic saint statues in her windowsill always pointed due north, scratching out bald patches on her scalp, and snapping her fingers after every utterance of the word God. As Traci got older, her OCD blossomed to include panic […]

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Brooke Warner – Hybrid Publishing, New Options for Writers in a Changing Industry

The Ink Spot 2730 Historic Decatur Road - Barracks 16 #202, San Diego, CA, United States

Green-Light Your Book is a straight-shooting guide to a changing industry. Written for aspiring authors, previously published authors, and independent publishers, it explains the ever-shifting publishing landscape and helps indie authors understand that they’re up against the status quo, and how to work within the system but also how to subvert the system in order to […]

$5.00 – $10.00

Traditional Publishing and Facebook Promotion Secrets

The Ink Spot 2730 Historic Decatur Road - Barracks 16 #202, San Diego, CA, United States

Jennifer Coburn is a USA Today best selling author of six novels and contributor to four literary anthologies. Over the past two decades, Coburn has received numerous awards from the Press Club and Society for Professional Journalists for articles that appeared in Mothering, Big Apple Baby, The Miami Herald, The San Diego Union-Tribune and dozens of […]

$5.00 – $10.00

Antoinette Kuritz of Strategies PR and the La Jolla Conference

Antoinette is The founder of The La Jolla Writers Conference - one of the first writers conferences to cover the art, craft, and business of writing and which is now in it's seventeenth year - Antoinette Kuritz is also the founder of Strategies Book Development & PR, a company devoted to helping both aspiring and successful authors […]

$5.00 – $10.00

Kamala Devi – Sex and Spirit on the Page

The Ink Spot 2730 Historic Decatur Road - Barracks 16 #202, San Diego, CA, United States

Kamala Devi teaches revolutionary methods to help dozens of students—many of them first-timers—turn their ideas into books within record time. Kamala Devi’s coaching is based on top coaching strategies, proven writing technologies, and tantric principles! One of the biggest benefits of this afternoon is simply surrounding yourself in a like-minded community of talented writers and tapping into the […]

$5.00 – $10.00

Public Relations for Memoirists

SDMWA welcomes Paula Margulies and Tricia Van Dockum for a day of Public Relations for Memoirists. Learn the secrets of: Finding Your Audience Packaging Your Book to Attract the Appropriate Audience Building Pre-Buzz for the Book via Social Media Various Ways to Market Your Book Both Online & Offline Building a Platform (and What Does That Mean […]

$5.00 – $10.00

The Author/Agent Relationship – Making it Successful

Join SDMWA to learn all about the author/agent relationship with Literary Agent Annie Bomke. This talk focuses on the author/agent relationship, detailing the agent's role at every stage of the publishing process, how to find an agent, and what makes for a strong author/agent relationship. You can learn more about Annie Bomke by visiting her website.

$5.00 – $10.00

Writing About Family

The Ink Spot 2730 Historic Decatur Road - Barracks 16 #202, San Diego, CA, United States

Leslie Johansen Nack graduated UCLA with a BA in English literature. Her debut memoir Fourteen: A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival, (She Writes Press, Oct 2015) won five indie book awards. She is currently writing the next memoir which continues her coming-of-age story. She has two children and lives in San Diego with her […]

$5.00 – $10.00

Why You Need A Book Sherpa

The Ink Spot 2730 Historic Decatur Road - Barracks 16 #202, San Diego, CA, United States

Writing the book is hard enough, but then there's this business of publishing and marketing! How does the savvy author do it all! Publishing and Book Marketing strategist Jeniffer Thompson walks you through the business of publishing, building your personal brand, author platform, and the ever-important-reality of ongoing book marketing (what you need to know). Jeniffer […]

$5.00 – $10.00