I've been invited to speak on a panel with three other authors at the upcoming BEA in June! I've never been before and I can't wait! If you have attended the Book Expo before, please let me know how it went.
Penned & Published –
Self-Published Authors & Stories of Success!
Moderator
PJ
Campbell, Director of Events for a major global trade publisher
Speakers/Participants
Darcie
Chan, Self-Published Author of The Mill
River Recluse
Brittany Geragotelis, Self-Published
Author of Life's a Witch
C.S.
Marks, Self-Published Author of the Elfhunter
trilogy
Theresa
Ragan, Self-Published Author, Author of Return
of the Rose
Description
Combine
your talent and business sense and take your writing dreams to the next level
by penning and publishing your own work of literary art! Join celebrated
authors and publishing professionals for this inspirational and engaging
session where they describe what it takes to become a best-selling author.
Long-time Publishing Veteran and author, PJ Campbell, will share her
experiences of publishing and talk with authors who have made the leap to
publish. Meet this dynamic group of writing professionals and learn exactly
what tips and techniques are needed and applied to create a successful book
campaign. This exciting session includes an expert panel of successful authors
who will share their thrilling self-publishing stories! These courageous
writers will share their experiences and insights on their own best practices
and how they turned their trials into triumphs! From pen to published author,
this session will prove that You can Publish You!
PJ Campbell is the Director of Events for a major, global trade
publisher and an authority in the creation of successful book campaigns through
author appearances. She has more than 17 years’experience in formulating,
marketing and publicizing author appearances through webinars, blog tours,
online chats, Skype, bookstores, conventions, conferences, seminars, workshops,
galas, and launch parties. Including her background as a former bookstore
General Manager and Director of Events, she has an all-inclusive perspective of
the business of writing. As an author, PJ has written articles and essays on a
variety of adult topics including the business of events, women’s issues,
motivation, sports, health and art. Her writing has been published in national
and international newspapers, magazines and websites. Her 2009 published book,
101 AUTHOR TIPS: Creating A Successful Book Campaign was an award finalist in
Best Books USA Book News and Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year. PJ’s newest
book will be published as an e-book, entitled, Authors’ Online Bestseller
Resource: Sales, Publicity, Promotion, E-Publishing. PJ is a member of the
following professional writing associations: National Association of Women
Writers, International Women Writers Guild, Association of Writers and Writing
Programs, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Western Writers
of America, Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Contact PJ Campbell at http://pjcampbellwriter.com,
Darcie Chan is the author of The
Mill River Recluse, a self-published debut novel that has become a
word-of-mouth e-book sensation. With over 570,000 copies sold, The Mill River Recluse appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists for more than 24 weeks and became a
heartwarming favorite of readers across the country. Darcie was born in
Wisconsin and grew up in the small towns of Brandon, Wisconsin, La Junta and
Cheraw, Colorado, and Paoli, Indiana. Thanks to loving and supportive parents who
are both educators, she learned to read and write at an early age. She has two
younger sisters, with whom she is very close. Currently, Darcie lives just
north of New York City with her husband and son. She writes during every moment
she isn’t working as a lawyer or spending time with her family. She gets very
little sleep, especially now that she is hard at work on a second novel set in
Mill River, Vermont.
An Olympic-bound gymnast during her teen years, Brittany Geragotelis always thought
she'd see her name in print one day. That dream came true first as a magazine
editor, where she had the chance to interview celebrities like Dakota Fanning,
Miley Cyrus and Jamie Foxx, and then more recently in news outlets like
Publisher's Weekly, Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Though she's
now a full-time writer, she also pens the blog Brittany the Book Slayer (www.thebookslayer.com) as well as produces and stars in author videos for her YouTube channel
(www.youtube.com/thebookslayer). After publishing her first book, Life's a Witch, on the
community writing site Wattpad (www.wattpad.com/BrittTheBookSlayer) and receiving nearly 18 million reads of the paranormal action
romance, she landed a 3-book, 6-figure deal with Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers. The prequel to Life's A Witch, titled What the Spell? Will be
published as an e-book in three parts beginning in September 2012 and in
paperback in December. The re-release of Life's a Witch and the sequel will
follow one per year. A self-professed pop-culture junkie, Brittany currently
lives in NYC with her boyfriend and two cats, Murray and Cohen.
C.S. Marks has often
been described as a ‘Renaissance woman’.The child of an English professor,
Chris has always loved classic literature as well as epic fantasy, and decided
to try her hand at writing and illustrating an epic series. The result: The
very successful Elfhunter trilogy,
which has sold over 40,000 copies both in print and e-book form. This epic
trilogy has garnered awards (Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy, Best Series) and
nearly 200 reviews. She is now hard at work on an exciting new Alterran series,
the Undiscovered Realms. A former
field biologist and avid horsewoman, Chris holds a PhD in Biology, and has
competed both nationally and internationally in the sport of endurance riding.
She is a full professor of equine science at a small liberal arts college in
the midwest. She is in demand as a lecturer and presenter at conventions,
academic fairs, and publishing workshops. In 2011, Chris signed a three book
deal with Sea Lion Books, including comic book and graphic novel adaptations of
the Elfhunter trilogy as well as hard covers and paperbacks. While she has
enjoyed an ample measure of success as an independent author, she is now
looking forward to a long and productive relationship with Sea Lion Books,
bringing her wonderful Tales of Alterra
to an ever-widening group of appreciative readers of all ages.
Theresa Ragan has been writing for nineteen years and has garnered
six Golden Heart nominations in Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart
Competition for her work. She lives with her husband, Joe, and the youngest of
her four children in Sacramento, California. Theresa writes medieval time
travels, romantic comedy, romantic suspense, and thrillers under the name T.R.
Ragan. In her first year as an indie author, Theresa sold 250,000 ebooks. Books
by Theresa include: Return of the Rose, A Knight in Central Park, Taming Mad
Max, Finding Kate Huntley. Also look for Abducted and Dead Weight,
romantic thrillers under the name T.R. Ragan. Many of her titles are top
sellers in their category!
