290 E Speer Blvd
Denver, CO 80203
USA
NOTE: VIDEO registration is available for all GOLD members if attendance in person isn’t an option. You will receive a link to the unedited video and the handouts within a week from the live Event. AND … it’s a first come, first serve for our GOLD members–meaning they get first claim on physical seats. We are looking at SOLD OUT attendance. GOLD members will only get Early Bird discounts.
You’ve written your book and polished it so that it shines. Now comes the hard part: getting it out to readers. How do you tackle this difficult task? One of your first steps should be soliciting reviews of your book.
In this age of consumers consulting reviews before going to restaurants, ordering products, seeing movies – and just about anything else – book reviews have never been more important in attracting an audience. Still, for self publishers, this task is challenging. Competing with the hundreds of traditionally published books for reviews has always been problematic. And now, with publications downsizing and eliminating their book sections even as the number of self published titles skyrockets, it takes marketing savvy and knowledge of how the system works to solicit meaningful reviews.
In this Saturday Mornings program, they will address topics such as:
- Why are reviews important?
- Can every book benefit from a review?
- Are all reviews created equal?
- What are the dos and don’ts of approaching reviewers?
- How do you put reviews to their best use once you have them?
- When is it best to solicit articles, rather than reviews?
Led by the former books editor of the Rocky Mountain News, Patti Thorn, and respected literary agent Patricia Moosbrugger, this workshop will give you the tools you need to get started obtaining the critical reviews that will help you sell your book.
YES! How to get book reviews that count: Looking for book love in all the right places! is just where you should be on February 6th.
Patricia Moosbrugger
Patricia Moosbrugger is co-founder of BlueInk Review, a company devoted to reviewing self-published books exclusively. She started her career in publishing 20 years ago at Curtis Brown Literary Agency, where she worked with renowned children’s book agent Marilyn Marlow and later in subsidiary rights at Walker Publishing and Golden Books. The recipient of a grant from the Star Tribune company, she spent three years at the prestigious independent Twin Cities presses, Graywolf, Milkweed Editions and Coffee House, helping develop in-house subsidiary rights divisions. In 2000, she joined the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, where she served for two years before starting her own agency. The Patricia Moosbrugger Literary Agency* currently represents authors of fiction and narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestsellers, Kate Furnivall, Louise Penny and Marietta McCarty.
Patti Thorn
Patti Thorn is co-founder of BlueInk Review, a company devoted to reviewing self-published books exclusively. She spent 28-years as a writer and editor at the Rocky Mountain News, which had a daily circulation of 300,000 at the time of its closing in February, 2009. Thorn served the last 12 years of her tenure as chief book critic and editor of the book review pages. The section earned acclaim for its incisive and timely reviews, as well as for Thorn’s weekly column about books and the publishing industry. Thorn is the three-time recipient of first place awards for Arts and Entertainment Criticism from the Colorado Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, she is the co-author of Fun Places to Go with Children in Colorado, published by Chronicle Books. The book has enjoyed two printings and sold over 20,000 copies. She has also served as an independent editor for both fiction and nonfiction. Thorn is a graduate of Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism.
Date: February 6, 2016
Time: 8 am for networking and breakfast … program ends at noon.
Venue: CADA 290 E Speer, Denver CO
Cost: Early Bird open until January 31st to GOLD AU members only: $22
From February 1 to February 5, $32 for AU GOLD members
BEST SELLER AU Members – Use this link to register:
ALL OTHERS $45
REMOTE: Video and handouts one week after event (you must be registered BEFORE Feb 6th to take advantage of this)
AU Members only $22 through January 31; Feb 1 and after: $32
