Self Publishing: Details and Demonstrations

This class provides a deep dive into the prep and layout of a manuscript for upload to Amazon, Ingram, and other distributors. Erin and Nancy will show you how to create beautiful interior designs without AI or a graphic design degree. We’ll prep a manuscript live so you can see how it’s done, review and demonstrate the research process for choosing a strong cover in your genre, and show you how to ready your project for the world. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how to create the book you want to release into the world.

Erin Dionne writes middle grade novels, picture books, chapter books and nonfiction. Her novel, Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking, was an Edgar Award finalist. She is the co-founder of Table for 7 Press, an indie publishing collective, through which she’s released Bad Choices Make Good Stories, an essay collection about writing, as well as five cozy mysteries under the pen name Mina Allan. When not writing, she’s a professor at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. Website: www.erindionne.com

National Book Award finalist, Edgar award winner, and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Werlin has written young adult novels that span genres from contemporary to suspense to fantasy to historical. After publishing 12 books traditionally, Nancy has now gotten rights reverted on most of her books and has self-published her own editions. Beginning this fall, she will publish adult novels independently. Website: nancywerlin.com