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September 11, 2010
Workshop from 11:00 – 12:30
Room HT 123
Workshop: Get Known Before the Book Deal: An Author Platform Check List
Becoming visible is more crucial to landing a book deal than ever according to agents and editors in every facet of the publishing industry. Aspiring authors of all varieties need to develop a platform in order to get noticed. Based on her book, Get Known Before the Book Deal, Christina Katz will help you see the bigger platform picture and take the steps every writer must to get known and land a book deal. Participants will learn how to: assess whether or not they are platform-ready, cultivate the skills to develop a platform over time, gather up their writing credentials into an impressive one-pager. Even if you are not yet known and you don’t have a writing specialty, you will enjoy this lively presentation about how to name, claim, cultivate and explain your all-important writer’s platform from scratch.
Speaker Bio:
Christina Katz is the author of Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform and Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids for Writer’s Digest Books. She has written hundreds of articles for national, regional, and online publications, presents at literary and publishing events around the country, and is a monthly columnist for the Willamette Writer. Katz publishes a weekly e-zine, The Prosperous Writer, and hosts The Northwest Author Series. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia College Chicago and a BA from Dartmouth College. A “gentle taskmaster” to her hundred or so students each year, Katz channels over a decade of professional writing experience into success strategies that help writers get on track and get published.
Book: Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform (Writer's Digest Books 2008)
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