What do Actors Jack Black and Nathan Lane have in common?
2 words: The outrageous and comedy writer Steve Kaplan … and so can you!
We have a DOUBLE HEADER BOOKCAMP in March!
March 4 … Sharpen up your writing with Hollywood’s premier comedy writer.
March 5 … Learn tips and tricks to transform your work to the big screen.
A very special BookCamp is coming your way with comedy writer, trainer, author and mentor to the inside club of Hollywood’s entertainers is coming to AuthorU and Denver. Steve Kaplan is bringing the Comedy Intensive to us … you will learn tips and tricks on how to humor up your writing when appropriate; how to engage an audience when speaking that you’ve never thought about; and so much more. http://www.KaplanComedy.com/
Get ready for a dynamic duo: The Comedy Writing Intensive BookCamp: A Weekend Workshop for Authors, Writers and Screenwriters. Attend one day … or both. Your choice … you choose.
Whether you’re writing a novel, short story, a comedy screenplay, working on a sitcom script, or producing or directing a comedy film, Steve Kaplan has been the industry’s most sought-after expert when it comes to comedy. From the industry’s top stars to first time comedy writers producers directors and performers, Steve Kaplan has worked with and developed the best.
The proven and practical methods and principles contained in his famed Comedy Intensive course reveals the hidden tools and principles that help you understand comedy from the inside out. If you went to Steve, you would pay $395 for this course (plus air, plus food, plus hotel). AuthorU is bring the amazing, outrageous and hilarious Steve Kaplan and the Hollywood factor to you … and you can sleep in your own bed.
Don’t miss this … Register Now! Early Bird ends on February 8th.
SEATS: Space is allowed for ONLY 40 attendees … register EARLY for this one.
Saturday, March 4th … Comedy Author Writing Intensive and Prose
Whether you’re writing a comic novel or just want to inject more humor into your prose, your books, your speeches … this all day workshop will open avenues you never envisioned.
Learn
- How to Create Great Comic Characters
- The Power of Not Knowing
- Funny You Should Say That: Writing Comic Dialogue
- Unblock the Block
- And more!
An intimate, supportive day that will include creativity and brainstorming techniques, solo and group writing exercises, and lots and lots of laughter!
Steve Kaplan is a master in Hollywood comedy and will delve into the sometimes elusive art of writing comedy. He’ll will explore this potent and popular form by distilling its basic principles, bringing them into the lingo and jargon you get … and can use. Combining hands-on writing exercises with story analysis and other interactive activities, this one-day event will help you find your own comic voice and offer guidelines on how to write humor with confidence, honesty and clarity.
Here’s Steve on Why Most Romantic Comedies Suck … http://bit.ly/1S3jmBc
Sunday, March 5th … Comedy Intensive for Screenwriters (and Screenwriters-to-be), Performers and Filmmakers
- How do you write funny?
- How do you act funny?
- How do you direct funny?
- How do you be funny?
Get ready to deep-dive and discover the hidden tools and principles of comedy
- what comedy is,
- how it works,
- why it works,
- what’s happening when it’s not working
- what you can do to fix it,
Your take-aways include proven and practical methods and principles. The workshop includes exercises, solo and group writing activities, as well as a liberal use of clips from current and classic comedies to illustrate our points and principles. It’s a very interactive experience, and we tend to laugh. A lot!
Get ready to alter your thinking, your style and your outcomes!
Don’t miss this … Register Now!
TIME: 8.30 to 4.30 includes lunch each day
WHERE: CADA – Colorado Automobile Dealers Assn, 290 E Speer Blvd., Denver CO
COST: AuthorU GOLD Members:
Early Bird $99 per day or both days for $180 until February 8;
Gold members need to login to Member site to register.
AuthorU GOLD Members Regular Rate: $129 per day or $250 for both days after February 8
ALL Other Participants:
1 Day – March 4th
BASIC and NON-Members Regular Rate after February 8th: $169 and $310
SEATS: Space is allowed for ONLY 40 attendees … register EARLY for this one.
There are no refunds 21 days before the event and a $40 Administrative fee will be charged.
Get ready to get the “insider’s skinny” on the hottest tool in the Amazon Marketing Services offerings. We are going to DEEP DEEP Dive into the new advertising that you can do on Amazon for pennies … don’t miss this session–it will not be taped … meaning you need to be at the meeting.
Meet with R
ichard Rieman at the studios of Post Modern Company Studios in downtown Denver to learn The Secrets of Audiobooks and How to Use them to Showcase Your Book. In addition, Kathy Meis, founder of Bublish, takes you step-by-step through the process of conducting your own Book Positioning Study and implementing Bublish to your marketing strategy.
Get ready to create a 3-minute AUDIO onsite for the first 20 people who register. 
We have two studios that will allocate a total of 15 minutes for each of the lucky 20–this allows to retakes and editing. For those who will be in front of the mic, you will get instructions on how to script yourself so you maximize your efforts and minimize your time.
Note: this is a large studio in a commercial building with concrete floors–bring a sweater–it can be chilly.
Count me in … I need to get on the audiobook trail pronto!
Richard Rieman is a multi-award winning author of The Author’s Guide to AudioBook Creation, a narrator and audiobook consultant.
BONUS AM SESSION
What, Whys and How-tos in Using Bublish
Meet Bublish … the world’s first complete publishing system with integrated branding, book and author marketing and discoverability features. It has award-winning tools to help authors write, publish, promote, sell and track their work — all from a single dashboard.
Bublish’s mission is to empower author-entprepreneurs, or as the team calls them, “authorpreneurs.” The “authorpreneur” title captures the essence of what it means to be a successful author in today’s competitive book marketplace. Authors must be both creative and business minded. With this in mind, the Bublish teams has created a suite of empowering tools. Here’s a sampling of how Bublish can help …
- Grow your audience. Bublish helps you share enriched, author-branded Book Bubbles that are easy to create, put thousands of eyes on you and your book(s), and connect the dots for your target audience. The team typically tracks about 50,000 book bubble engagements each week.
- Build your author brand. Bublish also gives you a LinkedIn-style Author Profile to help you start building your author brand. Here readers can see all your books and Bubbles in one place. Like Book Bubbles, your Author Profile can be shared socially with one click. Did you know readers are 15 times more likely to buy a book from an author with a name they recognize?
- Increase discoverability by search engines like Google. Every time you socially share a Book Bubble or your Bublish Author Profile, you make your author brand and books more discoverable by search engines like Google. This is another important feature we’ve automated for you. When you upload or create a book on Bublish, the keywords and metadata (title, your name, book cover image, keywords, etc.) are optimized for discoverability by search engines. All you have to do is create and share Book Bubbles regularly. Bublish technology handles the rest.
- Track your progress. At the top of your Bublish dashboard, you’ll find real-time metrics showing you when and where readers are engaging with your Book Bubbles and Author Profile. You’ll also see when and where they convert to visit your book’s product page at the major online book retailers.
- Generate beautiful ePub files with one click. Our Cloud-based writing tool lets you input content chapter by chapter on the left-hand side of the screen and select a layout on the right-hand side. With one click, you can change the entire layout of your book. You can export your manuscript anytime either as a Word document for editing OR as an ePub file ready to share with reviewers.
- Engage readers WHILE you’re writing. Share excerpts and insights right from your manuscript with Bublish’s “rough cut” book bubbles. They take only moments to create, so they won’t distract you from writing. They will, however, help you engage readers, get valuable feedback on your manuscript and share your creative journey with potential readers. When you’re ready, you can even add a “pre-order” button to your rough-cut bubbles to start selling your book at all the major online book retailers.
Bublish Founder, Kathy Meis will be here to deliver a “hands-on” demo of the What, Whys and How-tos in Using Bublish the second half of the morning.
Get ready to “bubble” up your Book Fans!
BE PREPARED!To those signing up…“Please prepare a book excerpt or promotion for the audio-only recording in the Postmodern studio. It has to be very short, 2-3 minutes maximum, to allow everyone a chance to record in the time allotted.”
Location: Postmodern Company; 2734 Walnut Street Denver, Colorado 80205 (303) 539-7001
In the Rhino District just east of Downtown Denver. (Directions to be posted soon)
In the RiNO District, just east of downtown Denver (the building has a large eye on it and is painted green) – directions will be posted. 
Parking is available for attendees between the two buildings with green outer walls. Parking is often a challenge–even though we have “space” for many, we would suggest that this would be a good time to carpool with a friend.
Time: 8.15 AM until Noon.
Cost: Early Bird until March 26 is $30 for Gold members, all others $40. An additional $10 after the 26th
Gold members need to login to Member site to register.
Did you know that audiobook sales revenue is up 32% so far for the year 2018? Do you have an audiobook to take advantage of this growing market?
Don’t miss this opportunity to join the Audiobook Revolution!
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6320070193348322562
Find out:
- What’s brand new in the audiobook world
- The new audiobook creation competition for Amazon and Audible
- How to independently publish your audiobook yourself or with help
- How authors can make more from their audiobooks than their eBooks
- The key steps to set your audiobook up for success
- Planning your next audiobook (key decisions)
You can have an audiobook version of your book created (with help!) for hundreds, not thousands, of dollars.
REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6320070193348322562
YES, there will be a REPLAY. Please register to make sure you get it if you can’t attend live. Date: Wednesday, AUGUST 15: 4 PT, 5 MT, 6 CT, 7 ET p.m.
About Richard Rieman:
Richard Rieman of Audiobook Revolution Productions is an authority on Audiobook self-publishing. He has spoken on audiobook creation at Author You, the Nonfiction Writers Conference, the Independent Book Publishers Association, Bublish, Women Writing the West, the Colorado Independent Publishers Association, the Colorado Authors League, the Las Vegas Writers Conference and many more.
Richard has consulted and produced over 150 indie-published audiobooks. He is the author of the Global eBook Awards Gold Medal Winner in Writing/Publishing, “The Author’s Guide to AudioBook Creation” Richard is also a top Audible Audiobook Narrator and 5-time winner of the EVVY Award for audiobook narration and production.
How to Sell Your Story to Hollywood!
(or: What Will Doom It to Eternal Obscurity)
AuthorYOU’s fast-paced “AHA” webinar
Wednesday, May 29th
What You’re Going to Discover…
- The one document you MUST have in order to sell your story to Hollywood – without you’re dead in the water.
- Why Hollywood is like a conveyor belt and ways that you can get your story to the front of the line…
- How drawing ONE simple line can massively impact the success of your script.
- Why having a screenplay is actually bad for most writers to have and how it can permanently ruin your chances
- The story elements that every producer and director look for that increase your chances of successfully selling your story to Hollywood
Ken Atchity
Hollywood Producer and Emmy award nominee who sold the Hollywood Blockbuster “The Meg” (International sales exceed 500 million) and 30+ other Hollywood Deals
REGISTER: https://realfast.clickfunnels.com/webinar-registrationpadlq6mz
This training will reveal the once hidden process for taking your book or story and get it sold to Hollywood for big bucks!
Are you ready to embrace the Top Keys to Audiobook and Videobook Success? And … should you create an audiobook? How about a videobook?
Your Expert Presenter: Richard Rieman
After a career of telling news stories into the RKO Radio Network and Chicago, New York, and Washington DC radio microphones, Richard Rieman started giving a voice to the words of some wonderful authors. Richard is a top Audible narrator and producer of over 100 audiobooks. He won three 2016 EVVY audiobook awards and used his reporting background to interview top audiobook narrators for his book, “The Author’s Guide to Audiobook Creation,” 2016 Gold Medal Winner in Writing/Publishing in the Global eBook Awards. He’s the founder and visional of Imagination Videobooks
Richard credits reading to his children in his “wizard” and “monster” voices for putting him on the path to audio and videobook success.
Get Ready for the TASTE of the AUTHOR YOU EXTRAVAGANZA happening next month, April 8-10!
REGISTER NOW: https://bit.ly/TasteExtravaganza
Oh yes … it’s a Sneak Preview! Get ready to jump on the inside of what’s coming to the all NEW AuthorYOU Extravaganza that will be in the beautiful Colorado in the Metro Denver area. Only attend a Taste of the AuthorYOU Extravaganza online summit if:
- you want to outsell and outshine most authors
- you want to connect with national publishing pros
- you want to learn insider tips for 2022 and beyond book marketing
- you want to be the webinar star presenter in your expertise
- you want swag that lures in book buyers
- you want to know the latest in copyrights and as the IP world turns
- you want covers and interiors that exceed what most authors create
- you want to learn about author tools that work
- you want to be seriously successful as an author
REGISTER NOW for A Taste of the AuthorYOU Extravaganza—you will be notified when the REPLAY is available: https://bit.ly/TasteExtravaganza
Starting at 3 p.m. until 5.30 p.m. MOUNTAIN TIME on Tuesday, March 15th, JOIN John Kremer (Book Marketing Expert), Barb Wilson (Editor and Craft of Writing Expert), Nick Zelinger (Book Covers and Interior Design Expert), Julie Bernard (IP Expert), Richard Rieman (Audiobook Expert), Mara Purl (Fiction Writing Expert), Rebecca Finkel (Book Covers, Interior Design, eBook, Swag Expert), and hosted by Judith Briles (The Book Shepherd and Book Publishing Expert).
Each will share a variety of tips that only the Extravaganza insider track will get at the April event. AND … for all who pre-register for the AuthorYOU extravaganza, each will receive bonuses that are normally paid for FREE valued at over $1,000.
Get ready to Create Your Author and Publishing Breakthroughs … starting NOW!
The AuthorYOU Extravaganza dates are Thursday, April 7th. The event will be led by a special Intensive: reveal of the mysteries of the 9-Cube Plotting Technique with Barb Wilson. Friday is a LONG day, ending with dinner and a delightful comedy show. Saturday starts with a SUNRISE program and ends shortly afternoon.
REGISTER NOW for A Taste of the AuthorYOU Extravaganza and to get REPLAY: https://bit.ly/TasteExtravaganza
And put a HOLD on your calendar and plan on attending the full AuthorYOU Extravaganza April 7 – 9 in beautiful Colorado … think of it as the ultimate author retreat!
