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Publish Locally, Get Read Globally

Presented Nov. 22, 2011 Ann Arbor Rec and Ed

Debbie Merion, MSW

www.essaycoaching.comdebbie@essaycoaching.com

Goals of the Class

• Familiarize you with some amazing local publications

• Provide a brief overview of the process of publishing your work in print and online

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Publishing Articles Locally

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Five steps to publishing locally (1)

1. Clarify your story

2. Explore local online publications on the handout and read

--writers’ guidelines

--deadline for submission

--who is the editor?

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Five steps to publishing locally (2)

3. Envision—where exactly will the story go? Look at the number of words, and the style. Write for that space.

4. Email an editor a query/pitch if you don’t have the entire story written.

5. Submit and be patient, but check back.

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Publishing Books Locally

• Is your idea a book?

• Is your idea a book that hasn’t been written?

• Do you want to write without thought of publishing?

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To publish a completed manuscript:

• Find an agent– Ask other writers you know – Take a class – Gotham writers

writingclasses.com/– Read preface in similar books

• Contact publishers directly - use Writer’s Market (book or online at writersmarket.com) or contact Ann Arbor publishers.

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Ann Arbor Area Book Publishers

• Huron River Press

• Robbie Dean Press

• University of Michigan Press

• Dzanc books

• Wayne State University Press

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To self-publish a completed manuscript:

• eBook (Kindle, nook)

• Print on demand (through createspace.com, U-M Espresso book machine

• Printhouse like iUniverse or lulu.com.

• Local printer (Kinkos, Thompson-Shore)– ISBN: bowker.com– authorsguild.org websites for writers – http://www.marketingnewauthors.com/

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Espresso Book Machine lib-ebm@umich.edu

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Books on Publishing Books

• Putting Your Passion Into Print-Eckstut and Sterry

• Thinking Like Your Editor-Rabiner and Fortunato

• How to Write a Book Proposal-Larsen

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Once published, how to use your online publication links?

• In your email signature

• On Facebook

• On Linkedin

• In work proposals

• Book proposals

• Resume

• Biography

Websites about Writing

• www.writersmarket.com/

• www.writersdigest.com/

• www.pw.org/

• www.awpwriter.org/magazine/

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Goals of the Class

• Familiarize you with some amazing local publications

• Provide a brief overview of the process of publishing your work in print and online

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Publish Locally, Get Read Globally

Presented Sat. July 19, 2011,10:30 AM - Noon Ann Arbor Rec and Ed Conference Room

Debbie Merion, MSW

www.essaycoaching.comdebbie@essaycoaching.com

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Publish Locally, Get Read Globally

Presented Nov. 22, 2011 Ann Arbor Rec and Ed

Debbie Merion, MSW

www.essaycoaching.comdebbie@essaycoaching.com