Friday Morning Sessions
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Friday, March 7, 2025
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Cost $45 (extra ticket required)
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Friday morning sessions offer a deep dive into topics that are too intricate to cover in a regular 55 minute session. Below are the offerings for CCWC 2025.​
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Calling All DIY-ers: The Basics of Amazon KDP Publishing
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Are you ready to take the reins and bravely enter the world of independent (AKA self) publishing? Would you love if someone just sat down with you and showed you step-by-step directions on how to do it from start to finish?
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing is a free platform that helps authors self-publish and sell their books on Amazon with no costs, full rights, and global reach. It’s relatively easy and gives you complete control over the publishing process.
Join author, blogger, editor, and publisher Jessica Brodie to learn the basics of Amazon KDP Publishing. Jessica will cover how to create an account, create and upload a book, create a book description, set categories and keywords, set the price, and launch it for sale.
If we have time, she’ll also explore some of the other important elements of high-quality independent publishing, including cover design, formatting, editing, understanding proofs, and more, and creating a Kindle eBook.
Bring your laptop and get ready for some fun, hands-on, practical learning.
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Jumpstart Your Publishing Dreams
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Do you dream of being a published author? In today’s competitive marketplace, to get published you need three elements. First, you need insider knowledge about how book editors, magazine editors and literary agents work. If you don’t understand their needs, then you will never be able to meet their expectations. Second, you need the skills to provide these publishing professionals with what they need. Finally, you need to bring strong storytelling to your writing.
In this two-hour workshop, Terry provides a list of key steps along with seasoned advice for any writer. Terry covers more than a dozen ways to jumpstart your publishing life—and the content of this workshop is different from his bestselling book with the same title. Whether the writer is a beginner or a seasoned pro, this workshop is certain to stir their imagination and plans in a fresh way long after the conference.