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Afternoon Workshop
Saturday January 28th, 2012:
Indie
Publishing: Walkthrough Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)
Bart
Palamaro
Kindle
Direct Publishing (KDP) is Amazon's independent (self)
publishing tool. This workshop will walk you through the
entire process of publishing your eBook on Amazon.com.
Want to sell
many copies of your book? Then
everything about your Indie published book should look as good
as anything from a major publisher.
A walkthrough KDP from setting up your account (free),
through basic marketing choices like title, keywords, categories
and cover design (not so free.)
How to set up
direct deposit from Amazon for domestic and international
selling areas. Tools, tricks and techniques you will need to
format your Word document so it looks good on Amazon and on a
Kindle. What you
can, and should, do for yourself, and what it may pay to
contract out. Q&A
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| Afternoon Workshop
Saturday February 25th, 2012
Poetry
for the Prose Writer: Using Poetic Techniques to Enhance Your
Writing
Ben
Heins
We will use “Memory Map” and
“Image Exploration” exercises to let your mind run wild,
writing down the memories your brain conjures up. After picking
one of your favorite, most personal memories of the bunch, we’ll
do some free writing using one or two striking images to create
a vivid retelling. There will be time to share, discuss and
analyze the free writing pieces with an eye toward refining them
using poetic elements. Participants are welcome to bring an
existing poem (optional) but not necessary since we will be
generating new work. All writers are welcome.
Ben Heins is the author of the forthcoming
electronic chapbook, Greatest Hits & B-Sides, set to
be released by Vagabondage Press on March 13 at www.vagabonagepress.com.
He is currently teaching accelerated composition at Rosemont
College, putting the finishing touches on his thesis, and will
be graduating this spring with an MFA in poetry. Though he
currently resides in Greater Philadelphia, Ben was born and
raised in the Lehigh Valley, where he studied under the late Dr.
Len Roberts. Ben's work has appeared in several local and
national journals, including Lehigh Valley Literary Review,
Wild Violet, White Pelican Review, and The
Battered Suitcase, among others. His poem, "Stone's
Weight," won first place the Lindsay R. Hannah Poetry
Contest in 2007. He also has been meeting bi-weekly with a
close-knit poetry group in Bethlehem since 2005. He can be
contacted at benheins@yahoo.com. |
