Day 1: Joy E. Rancatore & Meagan Smith: Dream BIG Together – How to Find and Keep a Critique Partner

by Women in Publishing Summit | Mar 2, 2020

Dream BIG Together – How to Find and Keep a Critique Partner

Description: Joy E. Rancatore & Meagan Smith are critique partners who support each other in their writing. In this workshop, they talk about carefully choosing a critique partner and communicating expectations produces high quality content and time-efficient craft mastery and provides much-needed companionship and encouragement in an otherwise lonely profession.

Format: Workshop

Level: This presentation is for all levels.

Joy Rancatore

Author, Editor, Publisher

Joy E. Rancatore is an Indie Author and the owner of Logos & Mythos Press in the Greater New Orleans area. She entered the professional writing world at age sixteen with a small-town weekly newspaper where the editor consistently ran her byline as Joe E. Over the years, Joy has written for newspapers, magazines and blogs, worked in public relations, web design and customer support and freelanced as a writer, editor and photographer. She writes fiction, nonfiction and everything between. She is the author of Any Good Thing, 2019, and Plus One Year More, 2020, co-author of Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner, 2019, and a contributing author to The Crux Anthology, 2018. In addition to her publishing roles, Joy is a blogger, speaker, teacher, editor for fellow Indie Authors and co-host of QWERTY Writing Life Podcast.

Meagan (Mea) Smith

Author

Meagan (Mea) Smith co-authored Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner (2019) alongside her own critique partner, Joy E. Rancatore. Mea and Joy co-host QWERTY Writing Life podcast where they explore how creativity fits in everyday life. She speaks to audiences on the topics of creative writing, embracing creativity, nurturing critique partnerships, and writing through grief. Mea has studied the writing craft for over a decade and has a Master’s in English. Outside of her latest release, Mea’s nonfiction works focus on the writing craft and life lessons delivered with kindness, humor, and honesty. She believes love doesn’t deter hateful things from happening, but it always conquers them. Because of this, she creates fictional content tinted with hope. Mea prefers her tales set in contemporary and/or fantastical places, and her poetry is based on a true story. Always.
Mea lives in a wooden house on a hill and trips over a multitude of cats while parenting her two rambunctious boys.

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Joy and Mea's joint effort, QWERTY Writing Life

Learn more about finding and keeping a critique partner, with Joy and Mea's book, Finders Keepers.

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Day 1: Melody Owen: Writing Your Memoir to Empower

by Women in Publishing Summit | Mar 2, 2020

Writing Your Memoir to Empower

Description: Melody Owen, Chief Storyteller, on how writing memoir can empower both readers and authors.

Format: Q&A

Level: This presentation is for all levels.

Melody Owen

Chief Storyteller

Melody Owen is a professional storyteller, writing coach and editor. She tells stories to entertain, connect and empower. She helps others tell their stories to empower them and change the world. She is dedicated to making the world a better place one story at a time.

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Learn more about Melody's company, Nutritious Truth, which develops content strategy and storytelling for social entrepreneurs.

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Day 1: Eva Natiello – From Rejection to the New York Times Bestseller List: The Journey of a Self-Published Book

by Women in Publishing Summit | Mar 2, 2020

From Rejection to the New York Times Bestseller List: The Journey of a Self-Published Book

Description: THIS IS A SPECIAL, UNADVERTISED BONUS REPLAY FROM 2019. THIS INTERVIEW WAS SO FANTASTIC, I DECIDED TO INCLUDE IT AGAIN THIS YEAR. In this interview, Eva shares the incredible journey of her book from countless rejections to becoming a best-seller, with 200,000 books sold.

Format: Video Q&A

Level: This presentation is for the intermediate to advanced level author. Also most appropriate for fiction authors, but Eva covers some great marketing tactics that everyone can learn from.

Eva Natiello

Author and Coach

Eva Lesko Natiello is the award-winning author of New York Times and USA Today bestseller, THE MEMORY BOX, her debut psychological thriller. Eva draws on her 20+ years of experience in PR, marketing and branding to coach authors on self-publishing and book marketing. She is the creator and facilitator of Self-Publish Like a Pro and Find Your Readers Book Marketing Workshops. You can catch her speaking at writers’ conferences or read her articles on self-publishing and book marketing in the Huffington Post. She is thrilled to empower authors to be successful, dynamic authorpreneurs, while helping them to create greater visibility for their books. Eva is currently working on her next thriller.

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Day 1: Miranda Gargasz: Tips for getting & Rocking book signings at Barnes & Noble and other chain bookstores.

by Women in Publishing Summit | Mar 2, 2020

Tips for getting & Rocking Book Signings at Barnes & Noble and Other Chain Bookstores

Description: Author Miranda Gargasz talks about her success in having her books distributed to Barnes and Noble, and other brick and mortar book stores, and shares her tips to help other authors do the same.

Format: Video Q&A

Level: This is best suited for people who have already published their books, publishers, and authors interested in this topic.

Miranda Gargasz

Author

Miranda Gargasz is a freelance writer from northeast Ohio. Many of her essays can be found on sites like ScaryMommy, “The Christian Science Monitor” and “The Huffington Post.” In 2014, she published “Lemonade and Holy Stuff,” a collection of personal essays. In 2016, she published “Plus Size Mama: An overweight mom gets real about weight loss,” a memoir about her struggles with an endocrine disorder that affects 1 in 10 women, and most never know they have. Her essays have been published in several anthologies, including “Lose The Cape: Never Will I Ever (and Then I Had Kids!).” Her debut novel, “Haunting Suspicion,” sold out within the first hour of her author signing at Barnes & Noble. Her current novel, “Dragonfly,” hit the shelves October 29, 2019. The sequel to “Haunting Suspicion,” entitled “Haunting Grounds” will be published in Spring 2020.

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Day 1: {Sponsor Presentation} Michelle Vandepas: Grace Point Matrix: Why entrepreneurs, personal development experts and quantum healers should write a book to share their knowledge with the world.

by Women in Publishing Summit | Mar 1, 2020

Why entrepreneurs, personal development experts and quantum healers should write a book to share their knowledge with the world.

Description: Summit sponsor Michelle Vandepas of GracePoint Matrix talks with conference host Alexa Bigwarfe about the process of writing a book, and figuring out what your book will be about.

Format: Video Q&A

Level: This presentation is for all levels.

Michelle Vandepas

Co-Founder, GracePoint Matrix Publishing

Michelle Vandepas is the nation’s leading expert for entrepreneurs, personal development experts and quantum healers who want to share what they’ve learned with the world by becoming an author. She is the co-founder of GracePoint Matrix Publishing, the gold standard in concierge publishing. She is also an esteemed TEDx speaker and TEDx Speaker Coach.

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Mentioned in this video:

Michelle’s incredible background – in a documentary with the Daliai Lama and Sting!

She’s also fostered 10 children.

Words of advice: “If you have something to SAY in the world, if you have a message to share – you have some wisdom inside of you. As you’re working to build your audience, a book is such a great way to do that…. but it can be so intimidating that sometimes people never get past the first draft of the manuscript, if they even get that far.”

Don’t get paralyzed by the what ifs – just start the writing process.

It will always take longer to polish than you think, so don’t keep putting it off.

Also, if you’re carrying around the desire to write and publish a book – get it out of your head, do it! Or it will drive you crazy.

“If you’ve ever had the thought : ‘Oh I should write a book someday’ – then it’s yours to do!”

Visibility and marketing – you need a platform & visibility

You have to have an audience. You can get on podcasts, visibility

Don’t expect direct sales from those interviews and visibility, but it does create a ripple effect.

Know the BASIC things to do – like set up your Amazon Author Page.

Check out our blog post on how to Rock Out Your Amazon Author Page

You don’t know what you don’t know.

Get educated on the process. Download the report from https://womeninpublishingsummit.com/gracepointmatrix

How Michelle has grown her team and company: Tips and advice for the people who want to start / grow a small publishing company or book coaching / publishing assist company

The importance of collaboration and mentorship for women. Men have been doing this for a long time. It’s harder for women to network because of all the things, so community is so important.

Your message is valuable! Let’s get it into the world.

Michelle's books on Amazon

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