Publishing Your Book and Doing It Yourself with Cindy Bellinger

Event Description

No matter the publishing goals — from back-of-the-room sales to mass market fiction — students will learn the necessary steps required in the publishing process: copyediting, getting forewords and blurbs, buying ISBNs and barcodes, and designing the interior and cover of a book.  In this hands-on workshop, students will create a personalized production schedule with defined marketing strategies for print and online promotion; learn about distribution, ways to format manuscripts for e-books, and how to avoid the “red-flags” that reviewers quickly spot.

Cindy Bellinger started writing the moment she could hold a pencil and wrote her first play in third grade.  She wears many hats — journalist, poet, teacher, author, publisher, gardener, and designer — and enjoys and takes great pride in them all.   A friend wrote, “You wield a chainsaw like a logger and write poetry that breaks people’s hearts.”  An early book, Someone Stole My Outhouse, is a collection of newspaper columns she wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican.  Her most recent, Into the Heat: My Love Affair with Trees, Fire, Saws & Men, is her fifth published work. 
Visit her website www.cindybellinger.com