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Date: May 11–16, 2004.
Begins Tuesday at 6:00 P.M. with dinner; ends Sunday with breakfast.

Designed For: Published authors or illustrators dedicated to promoting themselves and their books.
Maximum Capacity: 10 Participants

 

Promoting yourself and your books is the essence of being a successful children’s author or illustrator. But if you're used to the solitude of the creative life, how do you make a glowing impression with an audience or the media?
This workshop offers

  • useful tips and strategies for making polished presentations and promoting yourself to schools, libraries, bookstores, and the media;
  • extensive hands-on, videotaped public-speaking sessions and videotaped school presentations;
  • workshops with experts in media relations and school and library visits; and
  • a unique opportunity to meet and learn from other published children’s authors who will share their ideas and experiences in promoting their work.
 
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  Workshop Faculty


Peter Jacobi

 Peter Jacobi
Peter Jacobi is a journalism professor emeritus at Indiana University, a former ABC and NBC newsman, and a consultant with magazines and corporations. He has worked with writers, editors, and CEOs from all walks of life to make their words clear and engaging.

Peter has published extensively. His two guidebooks, The Magazine Article: How to Think It, Plan It, and Write It and Writing with Style: The News Story and the Feature, are standard journalistic references.
Peter has also served as a music critic and columnist for the Bloomington Herald-Times, was a major contributor of essays to The Lyric Opera Companion, and wrote The Messiah Book: The Life and Times of G. F. Handel's Greatest Hit.


Bobbie Combs		 Bobbie Combs
Bobbie Combs is a freelance children’s book specialist and one of the owners of Two Lives Publishing, a small niche publisher of children’s books. She has spent her entire adult career in the world of children’s books.
Some of the jobs she has held include manager of a children’s independent bookstore; children’s buyer and children’s sales/marketing director of a book distributor; publicity assistant; freelance children’s book reviewer; Webmaster for several industry sites; author; editor; and publisher.
Nearly all of these jobs have required a special focus on public relations and marketing: working with independent bookstores, chains, and wholesalers to increase their awareness of authors; developing relationships with media (local, national, and niche); ensuring that books reach the right reviewers; developing tailored mailing lists and utilizing the Internet, author Web sites, and e-mail to gain maximum exposure.

Kent L. Brown Jr.,		 Special Guest Faculty: Kent L. Brown Jr., publisher of Boyds Mills Press and editor in chief of Highlights for Children will discuss the secrets of successful school and library visits.