The conference has been very good.
Monday afternoon I had an excellent one-hour session with agent April Eberhardt who gave me some excellent suggestions for my memoir. Basically, she gave me some old rules from my journalist days, like, "Start with your best stuff." I think I need to completely restructure my memoir.
In the late afternoon She gave a talk to about 30 of us and lamented the sorry state of publishing today. Even though she is an agent, she no longer advises writers to use the same old agent-editor-publisher route any more. Everything has changed, she says, and the other teacher I have been following, agrees.
Tuesday morning, Fern Reiss talked about the importance of a good 30- to 60-page marketing plan for your book, regardless of whether is it self-published or not.
An interesting tidbit: Lightning Source is owned by Ingram, the largest book wholesaler, and Create Space is owned by Amazon, the largest book retailer.
She said to consider Internet search keywords when choosing a title.
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