Please mark your calendars to attend an event featuring some of the brightest lights of the self-publishing industry.
Join Karen Cantwell, author of the comedy-mystery Take the Monkeys and Run, Matt Iden, author of the crime fiction novel A Reason to Live, Scott Nicholson, author of Troubled, Michael J. Sullivan, author of the Riyria Series, and Robin Sullivan, founder and editor of Ridan Publishing, as they share their personal experiences in self-publishing and discuss the how-to of becoming a successful self-published author at George Mason University’s Fall for the Book festival near Washington DC.
Includes a one hour panel followed by a one hour informal meet-and-greet with the authors. No fee, registration, or RSVP required to attend!
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Panelists
 Karen Cantwell writes the humorous Barbara Marr Murder Mystery Series which includes Take the Monkeys and Run, Citizen Insane, and Silenced by the Yams, all of which have been Kindle bestsellers. She is currently working on the fourth Barbara Marr novel, Saturday Night Cleaver, while also strategically planning how to grow as both an author and publisher. http://www.karencantwell.com/ |
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 Matthew Iden writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, thrillers, crime fiction, and contemporary literary fiction with a psychological twist. Matthew’s crime fiction series featuring retired DC homicide investigator Marty Singer debuted in A Reason to Live and continues with Blueblood. http://matthew-iden.com |
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 Scott Nicholson has hit the Kindle Top 100 ten different times in three countries and more than a million of his ebooks have been downloaded. He’s published more than 80 books and is currently self-publishing foreign editions of his work. http://www.hauntedcomputer.com |
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 Michael J. Sullivan: Named to the io9 most successful science-fiction and fantasy authors list as well as EMG’s Top 25 self-published authors to watch list. Michael made over a quarter of a million dollars in self-publishing then sold that same series to big-six publisher Hachette Book Group for six-figures and more than twice that for 14 foreign language contracts. http://riyria.blogspot.com/ |
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 Robin Sullivan is a lecturer, blogger, small press publisher, and business manager/publicist for her husband, author Michael J. Sullivan. For over six years she has been actively following he changes in the publishing industry and has helped hundreds of authors determine what option will best meet their needs.http://www.ridanpublishing.com/ |
After participating on a panel with three other authors (Karen Cantwell, Scott Nicholson, and Michael J. Sullivan) recently, the topic of profanity came up. We’d just finished lunch at a family restaurant and it was only later that I wondered what the teenage waiters and nearby patrons thought when one of us said, “The chapter of my first book ended with ‘Fuck!’ and it really turned a lot of people off, so I took it out in the next edition.”
