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Colorado Independent Publishers Associa on 1

An e-Publica on of the Colorado Independent Publishers Associa on

Important Dates

Saturday, August 23 CIPA EVVY Banquet & Awards Ceremony

Friday, September 12 Last day to watch the three CIPA Sum-mer WebinarsPrequel to Brian Judslive event Sept. 20!

Saturday, September 20 Mind Your Own Business with BrianJudCIPA Monthly Mee ng

Join our mailing list to keepup to date with all of CIPAs events!

Inside Presidents Le er CIPA Summer Webinar Series

CIPA EVVY Awards Finalists Announced!

CIPA EVVY Awards Banquet Tickets

ARTICLE: Charging Sales Tax for Your Book

Member News

10 Reasons to Join CIPA 7 Ways to Make CIPA Pay for You

CIPA Board Members

November 2010 August 2014 Presidents Le er Hello to all my CIPA friends!

I know its clich to say the summer wentfast, but boy howdy, did it go fast. Mydaughter is star ng 3 rd grade on the 15 th .The 20 th Annual CIPA EVVY awards ban-quet is less than two weeks away.

This year marks my 4th

year on the CIPAboard. Its been quite a journey, workingto help make CIPA the best publishinggroup in Colorado!

We changed things up a bit this yearweused to run the EVVYs from Octoberthrough March with the award banquetin May. We decided to see what wouldhappen if we ran the contest betweenMarch and May, with the banquet in Au-gust. All I can say is WOW! Our formerhighest ever category entries was 206

in 2006. This year we increased that by25%! We had 278 category entries! Thatmeans that the compe on has beens but all very, very good. The bookshave been excellent overall. Im especial-ly pleased to note that most of the bookshave publishing companies a ached tothem. This means that our indie authorsare ge ng smart! Instead of publishingunder their names, they create a publish-ing en ty and publish under that. It legi -mizes all the hard work that we all do asindie authors and publishers!

I encourage all the nalists to come tothe CIPA EVVY awards banquet this year.It promises to be a lot of funandtheres been a huge amount of diligentwork to make sure that contest has runsmoothly! Thats what publishing is real-ly all aboutdiligence! We need to makesure our books are the best possible andcan compete in the marketplace!

Find us on:

www.CIPACatalog.com Colorado Independent Publishers Associa on

3361 W Monmouth Ave Englewood, CO 80110

Phone: 970 -315 -CIPA (2472) [email protected]

2014 Colorado Independent Publishers Associa on

If youre not a nalist or if you are anauthor who is wan ng to enter theEVVYs this coming year, I encourage youto a end as well. Youll get to see whataward -winning books look like. You cantalk to the authors about the processthey went through. You can experiencethe fun and excitement of ge ngacknowledged for all your hard work!

Looking forward to seeing everyone onthe 23 rd!

Much love,

Dr. Patricia A. Ross CIPA President 2013 -2015

The EVVY awards nalists(par al list) have been

announced at our website.Please click here to see if you

made it as a nalist!Then buy your ckets to the

EVVYshere !
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CIPA Webinar Summer Series

CIPA is excited to welcome Brian Jud as our speaker for ourSeptember mee ng. Brian is the author of How to Make RealMoney Selling Books , a complete resource for selling books inbulk to non -tradi onal markets. He is also the Execu ve Direc-tor of APSS, The Associa on of Publishers for Special Sales.

As a lead -in to his live CIPA presenta on in September, Briantaught 3 live webinars this summer for CIPA members. Get a jump start on learning how to sell your book by the case to non-tradi onal buyers! In these 3 classes, Brian will take you step -by-step through the process of prospec ng for poten al buy-ers, wri ng the proposal, and nego a ng the special sale ofyour book.

Cost: Members $25 for all 3 webinars

(must sign in to receive member pricing) Non -Members $37 for all 3 webinars

The webinars were recorded and the replays are immediatelyavailable to you a er you register.

Here's what you'll learn:

The process for selling books to non -retail, non -bookstorebuyers is totally di erent from selling to the trade. In specialsales, the objec ve is to make large -quan ty, non -returnablesales to professional buyers, perhaps in corpora ons, associa-ons or schools. There are three general steps in the typicalsales process, and they apply to both c on and non c on foradults and children. In these 3, 90 -minute webinars, Brian Judwill describe this process, complete with examples, contact

informa on and handouts with even more descrip ve infor-ma on.

Webinar #1: Prospec ng I'll begin the series with a generaloverview of special -sales marke ng and how it di ers fromselling to the trade. Then I'll show how to canvass target seg-ments to nd poten al buyers. These could be marke ng peo-ple, C-level execu ves, HR managers, sales managers, pro-spects at associa ons, directors of departments of educa on

and buyers at government agencies and the armed forces. Theycould also be buyers at discount stores, warehouse clubs, air-port stores and other retailers.

Webinar #2: Crea ng the proposal and making the presenta-on Next, your members should prepare plans and budgetsdescribing how their books will most cost -e ec vely reach thestated objec ves. I will show how to create a proposal and pre-sent it to the decision makers.

Webinar #3: Nego a ng the sale Rarely is the ini al proposalaccepted in totality. I will show how to nego ate pro tably,closing the sale without using high -pressure tac cs. Then once

the order is placed, your members must track it closely to makesure the correct books are shipped at the right me in the rightquan ty.

Problems registering? Email [email protected]

Three Steps to Selling Your Book bythe Case - with Brian Jud

Three Pre -recorded Webinars

The Writing Doctor40 years editor all genres

Flat-rates on critiques, content edit,ebook line edit. To development.

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CIPA EVVY Awards Banquet Tickets

We had a banner year278 category entries (the previoushighest ever was in 2006 at 206). The compe on has beens , and the awards banquet promises to be special!

August 23, 2014, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. $55 per person

Artwork Network Gallery & Event Center 878 Santa Fe Drive, Suite 2

Denver, CO 80204

We have reserved 60 sparking spaces a block away at Buds Mu er, 1010 Santa Fe Drive.

I know, it doesn't sound glamorous, but it saves us the hassle of nding a spot on the street and its already paid for!

Meet our M.C. for the 2014 CIPA EVVY Awards:

Jim Davidson Resilience Expert, Author, Adventure Speaker,

Expedi on Leader

Jim saved himself from 80 -feet deep inside a glacial cre-vasse. Jims compelling survival story is featured in a one -hour

episode of I Shouldnt Be Alive on Animal Planet (the Killer Crevasse episode from 2011).

20 th Annual CIPA EVVY AwardsBanquet & Ceremony

Tickets: $55 (includes a bu et dinner) Sea ng is limited so buy your ckets now!

Deadline is Friday 8/15.

Charging Sales Tax for Your Book

Should you charge sales tax for your book?By Mary Walewski

My email always brings me ques ons that evolve into a re-search project and a blog post!

Do you know how to handle sales tax for when we sellbooks? Each community is di erent. Many require a business

license. Am I required to have a business license for each com-munity where I sell a book and pay them their tax, the statetheirs, etc.?

A google search of How much sales tax do I charge broughtup some great resources, the best being Etsys Everything YouNeed to Know About Sales Tax and The Simple But Sweet GuideTo Charging Sales Tax .

Not sure what your sales tax is in your town. Heres a handycalculator by zip code .

Bo om line: You need to know the sales tax regula ons in yourstate. I didnt know is not a valid excuse according to the taxcollectors. Some states just want you to charge sales tax forbooks sold to customers within your state. (This includes onlinesales.) Some states and ci es require a business license and/ora sales tax license. Most states allow you to collect sales tax atyour local rate, rather than your buyers local rate.

Once youve collected the sales tax, its your responsibility topay the tax. Naturally, each state does that in a di erent way,too. Check your states department of revenue website for themost up -to -date info.

For my friends here in Colorado, I googled How much sales taxdo I charge in Colorado and landed on the Dept of Revenuessales tax collec on page .

ABOUT MARY WALEWSKI: Mary Walewski is asocial media trainer and guide for boomer busi-ness owners, consultants, authors, and speak-ers. Her specialty is taking the mystery out ofonline marke ng.

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Member News CIPA Member Pain ng Chosen by Oxford PressGary Michael, CIPA author and an ar st, has hada portrait of Ludwig Wi genstein he painted cho-sen by Oxford Press in London to grace the coverof a new book of essays on the philosopher. Youcan nd out more about Gary Michael and hiswork here .

A YouTube Channel to Help Improve Writers Cra Author andWriters Coach Teresa R. Funke invites you to visit her YouTubeChannel at Teresa Funke to view more than adozen wri ng videos to help you improve yourcra . She also invites you to check out her Burstsof Brilliance for a Crea ve Life blog on her web-site at www.teresafunke.com . This blog is lledwith useful informa on for ar sts and entrepre-neurs. Contact Teresa at her website to learnmore about her popular writers coaching services.

CIPA Author Book Now on Audible.com Sue Ba on Leonard'smemoir Gi of a Life me: Finding Ful lling Things in the Unex-

pected is now available in audio book format through Audi-ble.com . It is a story of mul -cultural love, faith, healing and lifelessons. You will fall deeper in love with Fanny, thestellar character, when you hear her voice.

The book is narrated by the author and as onereader has said " Sue's ability, through dialogue, toshare Fanny's voice and powerful role in Sue'sdeveloping years is a gi to readers. " -Mary Kurtz,author of At Home in the Elk River Valley.

The audio version as well as the paperback and eBook are allavailable through Amazon.com . The audio book can be listened

to on Kindle Fires, and through the free Audible app on Apple,Android and Windows devices.

CIPA Member Invited to be a Guest Blogger Susan Fergusonhas been invited to be a guest blogger at Visual Connec-ons , News and views in the visual media buying community.She is wri ng two ar cles for the summer issues; one on ge nginto photo research and specialty publishing, and one on work-ing with online vs print publishing projects. Seeing an up ck ingarden publishing, Susan is working on a garden -related onlinedatabase project and two garden books for US and Canadiandistribu on next spring. Ferguson Resources, 303 -419 -6988.

CIPA Member Publishes Last Book in Series Author W.J.Cherfs latest (June 2014) and last of the series, The Manu-scripts of the Richards' Trust , Maat -ka -re. Memoirs of a TimeTraveler was published on Amazon, Createspace, and Smash-words. Paperbacks are available locally in all of the Ta eredCover Bookstores.

V. B. Gregorieva, a Russian temporal eld agent

who secretly works for the Russian and AmericanAcademies of Science, tells all in her memoir,Maatkare, Memoirs of a Time Traveler. She, inconcert with her American colleague, is tasked topreserve our present reality. First in ancient Egyptas Maatkare, they executed a dangerously psycho c alien hy-brid posing as a pharaoh. Then, in Philadelphia as LieutenantValerie Gregg, they failed to rescue four lost seamen in 1942.Finally, as Veer the Bloody in eighth century France, theteam stopped an Iranian a empt to alter the course of West-ern European Civiliza on.

CIPA Author Hosts Fun Book Talks & Clubs Carol For no,

author of her newest novel, Driving Forces justcompleted book talk tours to Portland, Oregon,California and Michigan. Carol arranges talks forgroups from small house gathering in LosAngeles and Pueblo, CO to the large Swedish Clubin Del Mar, CA. Driving Forces is a semi -autobiographical poli cal drama with a surprisingc onal twist set in the Philippines. Two bookclubs, one in Greeley, CO and one in Grand Rapids, MI pre-pared Filipino meals to go along with the discussion. For moreinforma on check out her website here . To order a copy, senda check for $15 to P.O. Box 246, Beulah, CO 81023. 719 -423 -9144.

CIPA Author Gives Inspira on for Chronic Medical Condi ons In Gina Meaghers book There Is Something about Gina - Flour-ishing with Diabetes and Celiac Disease she shares her experi-ences, insights and learnings with others who may be strug-gling with diabetes, celiac, or other chronic condi-ons. By focusing on whats before you today,you can make this day special. Tomorrow, youcan do the same thing. Put a few days togetherand youve got a week and the weeks roll intomonths and the next thing you know, youre notliving with a chronic condi on, youre ourishing .
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10 Reasons to Join CIPA (as a Regular Member)

1. Monthly mee ngs Our monthly mee ngs o er expertindustry professionals geared to jump start your wri ng,publishing, or book sales.

2. Free advice Each monthly mee ng starts with aseries of roundtable hosts to help answer your mostpressing publishing ques ons.

3. Early bird sign -up discounts for CIPA mee ngs andevents.

4. The annual CIPA EVVY AwardsA book compe onprogram that honors the best of our members' books byproviding an independently judged compe on in vari-ous genres and technical categories.

5. Access to Associate Service Providers where you can ndthe best of the best in edi ng, book cover design, layout,marke ng, prin ng, and more.

6. Trade show opportuni es CIPA members can promotetheir books at such industry trade shows as Mountainsand Plains Independent Booksellers Associa on (MPIBA),Colorado Associa on of Libraries (CAL), and others.

7. Vote at membership mee ngs Members voices countwith CIPA!

8. Eligibility to par cipate in the Douglas County LibrarieseBook Submission Program .

9. Network with your Peers Meet and greet like -mindedwriters, authors, and industry professionals.

10. FREE marke ng for your book by submi ng your newsto the CIPA Signature , which is distributed to membersand non -members alike!

Successful publishers andauthors belong in CIPA!

1. A end monthly mee ngs Coming to CIPA's monthlymee ngs puts you in direct contact with members andguests. You'll meet prospec ve customers and learn moreabout book publishing from high -caliber speakers.

2. Do a presenta on at a monthly mee ng Speaking ofhigh -caliber speakers - be one! Are you an authority inyour eld? If you are interested in giving an informa on -based presenta on, contact the Program Chair with youridea. The goal is not to adver se your speci c business,but to educate the members in your specialized eld.

3. Volunteer on commi ees and/or CIPA's Board Youknow it's true: the more you put in, the more you'll getout of your membership. Email us here to see where youcan volunteer your me and talents. Try it, you'll like it!

4. Submit an ar cle to CIPA Signature Write an infor-ma on - lled ar cle in your area of exper se and submit itto the newsle er editor here for inclusion in the CIPAnewsle er. Keep it informa onal. Be er yet, place an eye -popping adver sement in the Signature !

5. Host a mee ng roundtable CIPA roundtables are de-signed to help anyone with any genre, with any ques on,simple or complex, for new writers and publishers as wellas experienced authors and publishers. Are you an expertin your eld? Contact our Program Chair for considera onto host a roundtable.

6. Prominently display your marke ng materials A desig-nated Associate Service Provider table is set up at eachmee ng where you can display your yers, one sheets,

business cards, or other marke ng materials. That's ninechances to get your company in front of our members.The more members that see your informa on, the morebusiness you a ract. Think Law of Numbers!

7. Showcase your services A designated Associate ServiceProvider Directory is hosted on the CIPA Catalog website,not only for our members to see, but for anyone doing aweb search. Our analy cs show that 50 percent of ourweb visitors come from search engine results. Get listed,get seen, get business!

7 Ways to Make CIPA Pay for You (as an Associate Member)
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CIPA Board 2014 -2015

CIPAs Signature Newsletter Team

Veronica Yager CIPA Dir. of Internal A airs

Signature Editor

Charol Messenger The Wri ng Doctor

Signature Proofreader

Patricia Ross President &

CIPA EVVYs Coordinator

Mike Daniels Immediate Past President & CIPABrigade Chair; CIPA ELF President

Ann Nye West Treasurer

Kathy Mason Marke ng Commi ee

Karen Douglass Secretary & Focus Forums Chair

AnnaMarie Jackson Sponsorship Chair

Mary Walewski Program & Marke ng Chair

Grady T. Birdsong Membership, Mentoring, &

Community Liaison Chair

Michelle Rodenburg Young Authors League Chair
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