JULY 2016 - District 5 Meeting Minutes
Dear KAC District 5 Members,
Here's a summary of July's District 5 meeting.
Minutes July 9, 2016
To those of you who missed the KAC District 5 meeting Saturday, July 9, we had a great time with Esther Luttrell who spoke on “Being a Writer”. Esther is a great motivator. She cautioned us NOT to seek an agent, NOT to seek a publisher, NEVER to pay a publisher to publish a book because they do NO marketing for you at all.
Instead, she urged us to do as much as possible to edit carefully, and recommended Create Space as a well-formed site to help us self-publish. There was some further discussion after the meeting, and hopefully we can have Esther back for a 3-hour workshop on these issues in the near future. She has a great deal that she can teach us about self-publishing and its many aspects.
Esther also provided notes (below) on how to format a book in the most professional way. We did a writing exercise with a read around and it was a most profitable
meeting.
Ideas for future meetings and discussion: District 5 to develop a list of “alpha”, and “beta” readers: folks who are willing and able to read and at least make editorial suggestions for new works being prepared for self-publishing.
Connie White, Secretary
Here's a summary of July's District 5 meeting.
Minutes July 9, 2016
To those of you who missed the KAC District 5 meeting Saturday, July 9, we had a great time with Esther Luttrell who spoke on “Being a Writer”. Esther is a great motivator. She cautioned us NOT to seek an agent, NOT to seek a publisher, NEVER to pay a publisher to publish a book because they do NO marketing for you at all.
Instead, she urged us to do as much as possible to edit carefully, and recommended Create Space as a well-formed site to help us self-publish. There was some further discussion after the meeting, and hopefully we can have Esther back for a 3-hour workshop on these issues in the near future. She has a great deal that she can teach us about self-publishing and its many aspects.
Esther also provided notes (below) on how to format a book in the most professional way. We did a writing exercise with a read around and it was a most profitable
meeting.
Ideas for future meetings and discussion: District 5 to develop a list of “alpha”, and “beta” readers: folks who are willing and able to read and at least make editorial suggestions for new works being prepared for self-publishing.
Connie White, Secretary