RedBird-RedOak ~ A Unique Writing Community

with Karen McQuestion

Saturday, Nov 13, 2010

1:00 – 4:00 pm

$40

Spend the afternoon with writer Karen McQuestion as she shares how she went from unpublished novelist to bestselling e-book author on Amazon’s Kindle to a book deal with AmazonEncore. (Her novel, A Scattered Life, will be released on June 22, 2010.)Karen will reveal how she used the emerging technology of ebooks and print-on-demand to publish her way into a faithful readership, a movie option and traditionally published novel.

Learn why this is an opportune time to self-publish and how to use the Internet to market your work.

Topics covered will include …
formatting
cover art
marketing
writing descriptive blurbs
an overview of the various options in self-publishing

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Karen McQuestion is the author of six books on Amazon’s Kindle, including the novel, A Scattered Life, which has been optioned for film. Her children’s book, Celia and the Fairies, is self-published in paperback. Other writing credits include humorous essays in Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post, Wisconsin Academy Review, and numerous anthologies. In addition, she was awarded a 2003 Ragdale Foundation residency for fiction. More recently she’s served as a commentator for the local NPR affiliate, WUWM.

Call 414-881-7276 for availability. Download Registration Form.