The Literary Elephant: The Beginner's Guide To Indie Publishing

You’ve invested blood, sweat & tears into writing, now let’s get your book out there!We will go over in great detail topics that only we will find exciting, such as:

• Editing – why it’s needed, the different types of editors and where to find them
• Covers –how to create your own and where to find cover designers and artists
• Business items – copyright filing, ISBN, CIP data, pseudonyms and incorporating
• Distribution –formatting, where to find distributors and how royalties are calculated
• Marketing – why it’s needed and tons of ideas on how to market your book
• Crowd funding – the three phases of crowd funding explained
• Budgeting exercise – a budget sheet for you to have some finance fun with your own book!

Let’s roll up your sleeves and just do it! You are on your way on becoming an indie author!

JF Garrard is the President of Dark Helix Press, an Indie publisher of Multicultural Fantasy, Science Fiction and Raw Non-Fiction. She is interested in increasing awareness of diversity issues and breaking down cultural stereotypes through her dark stories. Her first novel, The Undead Sorceress, is a blend of Eastern and Western vampire mythologies. A germaphobe with a Nuclear Medicine background, you can find her speaking about writing and publishing at different Literature, Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Japanese Animation conventions throughout the year. www.jfgarrard.com