Self-Publish or Get an Agent?
What you'll learn
- Understand your Author Personality and how it affects your publishing journey.
- Discern which path to publication, independent or traditional, is best for you.
- Learn how to get an agent, find an editor, or independently self-publish your book.
- Create a personal action plan to see your fiction or nonfiction book in print.
Requirements
- No.
Description
Is your book ready to launch? Should you find an agent? Are you thinking about self-publishing?
Many people have strong opinions about which is best. But they don’t know you.
What makes this course different is that we believe there is no single correct path to publication. We’re all unique. We each have different strengths, weaknesses, and motivations.
This course will give you an overview of the industry so you can forge your own path to success.
Discover your author personality
Understand the pros and cons of each publishing path
Learn the steps to publication for traditional and self publishing
Develop an individualized action plan with personal goals that will lead to publication
Build a basic author platform
Between them, USA Today Bestselling author Greta Boris and award-winning author Megan Haskell have published both independently and traditionally. They’ll become your guides as you plot your course to publication.
It’s time to take charge of your author career.
Registered students will also receive a free digital copy of the second edition of PUBLISH: Take Charge of Your Author Career.
What people are saying:
Very informative! I learned the difference between traditional and indie publishing. So much of the information was eye opening.
Really good information on how to publish and great tips for writing a query. I learned a lot! Thanks.
Well organized, enthusiastic presentation of the different viewpoints of my publishing options.
I appreciated the clear slides and concise information. You make a good team! It was great to get both indie and traditional perspectives.
Who this course is for:
- Beginning or experienced writers who desire to get a publishing contract or self-publish their fiction or nonfiction book.
Instructors
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 5 Reviews
- 30 Students
- 1 Course
Megan Haskell is the award-winning author of The Sanyare Chronicles, a fast-paced dark fantasy adventure featuring a kick-ass heroine, snarky carnivorous pixies, and a quest across nine faerie realms. Sanyare: The Last Descendant (Book 1) received a Readers’ Favorite Bronze Award and was a finalist in the 2017 IAN Book of the Year Awards, and Sanyare: The Rebel Apprentice (Book 3), was named a finalist in the 2018 Book Excellence Awards. Her most recent release, Forged in Shadow was named a Readers' Favorite Honorable Mention in Epic Fantasy.
Megan Haskell and her teaching partner, Greta Boris are popular workshop presenters. Together and separately they’ve taught at libraries, writing conferences, and writers guilds from California to Texas on topics ranging from time management for authors, to story structure and character development, to revising the manuscript, and choosing a path to publication. In 2020 they founded The Author Wheel to help their students Produce, Publish and Promote their writing.
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 5 Reviews
- 30 Students
- 1 Course
Greta Boris is the USA Today Bestselling author of The 7 Deadly Sins, standalone novels of psychological suspense. Ordinary women. Unexpected Evil. Taut psychological thrillers that expose the dark side of sunny Southern California. She's also responsible (whether she likes to admit it or not) for the new Mortician Murder Mystery series featuring a rockabilly-hairdresser turned mortician. Her stories have been called atmospheric, twisty and un-put-downable.
She’s also the Co-Creator with Megan Haskell of The Author Wheel, a site for writers on writing, and the nonfiction book PUBLISH - Take Charge of Your Author Career. She describes her work (and her life) as an O.C. housewife meets Dante’s Inferno.