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RED FLAGS TO AVOID WHEN SELF-PUBLISHING OR SEEKING A PUBLISHER

You just got your dream email. A publisher contacted you and wants to publish your book. Your book is finally going to be on bookstore shelves! Not so fast. Traditional, Hybrid, Vanity, Self-Publishing, choose the wrong publishing path and you can lose your money and even the rights to your work. In this workshop, you’ll learn what red flags to watch out for, to keep your publishing dreams from turning into a nightmare. Join us for an eye-opening and oft humorous look into the overpriced services, scams and cons designed to separate you from your money.

Location:

*West Boca Library*

18685 State Road 7 Boca Raton FL 33498 

It's on State Road 7 (441) in between Clint Moore and Yamato Road. 


Saturday, May 17 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

West Boca Library

RED FLAGS TO AVOID WHEN SELF-PUBLISHING OR SEEKING A PUBLISHER

Speaker: Robert Herrick


You just got your dream email. A publisher contacted you and wants to publish your book. Your book is finally going to be on bookstore shelves!

Not so fast. Traditional, Hybrid, Vanity, Self-Publishing, choose the wrong publishing path and you can lose your money and even the rights to your work.

In this workshop, you’ll learn what red flags to watch out for, to keep your publishing dreams from turning into a nightmare.

Join us for an eye-opening and oft humorous look into the overpriced services, scams and cons designed to separate you from your money.


Robert Herrick’s Biography

Robert Herrick has self-published three picture books, one grammar book, and three books that help authors on their self-publishing journey.

He is an award-winning screenwriter and author who worked for 20 years as a software developer. He helped create over fifty commercially released games and educational titles, including the best-selling Cabela’s Big Game Hunter Series. He sold his company to Activision in 2000. Robert transitioned to writing children’s books and has been a member of the SCBWI for 20 years. He runs a monthly Self-publishing Zoom Support Group.

His self-publishing writing and illustrating website is Uwritekidsbooks.com. That’s where you can find the free PDF downloads of his How to Publish Your Book Without Breaking the Bank series. His kids’ book website is NDRPress.com. There, you will find his three children’s books and grammar book.

He lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL.



We hope you’ll join us after the workshop at Panera Bread in Mission Bay Plaza. 20437 State Road 7 Boca Raton, FL 33498. Make a right out of the library onto 441. Make a right at Glades Road, then a right into the Mission Bay Plaza. Panera will be close to Glades Road. 

 

Please let me know if you’re coming (or hope to be there) so I can prepare and make sure there are enough seats. You can reply to a Facebook post, or shoot me an e-mail: [email protected].