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    • 25 Dec 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Zoom
    • 15

    Our Author Marketing Support Group meeting via Zoom has been cancelled for December. We are  providing a speaker in January.

    Happy Holidays

     

    • 22 Jan 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Zoom
    Register

    Join our Author Marketing Support Group via Zoom on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. PT. 

    Publishing & Marketing Your Writing
    By Cornelia Feye, author, publisher

    You have finally written your novel or short story—or you’re still in the planning stages. Now what? You want to publish your work and you want the public to read it. Whether you want to pursue a traditional, hybrid, or self-publishing option, you need to get your work ready for publication.  This workshop lays out the necessary steps to publishing. Participants will find out about developing a timeline, creating a short summary, editing, basic marketing strategies, on-demand printing platforms, ebook, and audio book options, and how and where to submit their work.

    Cornelia has written five novels in the Vega & Greg Stern Art Mystery series. Her first art mystery Spring of Tears, and her short story anthology Magic, Mystery & Murder won San Diego Book Awards. House of the Fox, set in Anza Borrego Desert, Private Universe, and Death of a Zen Master, set in a remote Zen monastery followed.  Her latest book Refuge on the Mountain, published 2024 is a dystopian survival thriller set in the local Cuyamaca Mountains and won the International Impact Book Award.  Feye graduated with a MA in art history at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and traveled around the world for seven years, before finally settling in Ocean Beach, California, where she enjoys writing, gardening and looking for the green flash.

    Thanks for registering and we are looking forward to seeing you!

    • 27 Jan 2025
    • 6:30 PM
    • Zoom
    Register


    How to Be Ready to Find an Agent When Your Book is Ready

    We will discuss the skills and tricks needed to acquire a literary agent, such as doing the necessary research to find the right agent for you, writing a query letter, attending writers’ conferences and much more.

    Bio

    Matt Coyle is the author of the ten-book bestselling Rick Cahill crime series. Matt knew he wanted to be a crime writer when his father gave him THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER by Raymond Chandler when he was a young teen.

    His books have won the Anthony, Shamus, Lefty, Authors on the Air Book of the Year, Ben Franklin Silver, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Silver, and San Diego Book Awards. He also earned the Odin Award by the San Diego Writers & Editors Guild in 2024.

    He was named the Mystery Writer of the Year for 2021 by the San Diego Writers Festival. ODYSSEY’S END is the tenth book in the Rick Cahill series.

    Matt lives in San Diego where he is writing something completely new from the points of view of three characters.

    • 24 Feb 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 24 Mar 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 28 Apr 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 19 May 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 23 Jun 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 28 Jul 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 25 Aug 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 29 Sep 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 27 Oct 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 24 Nov 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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    • 8 Dec 2025
    • 6:30 PM

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Past events

16 Dec 2024 December Year-End Party and Mini-Local Author Showcase
25 Nov 2024 November meeting - Open Mic Night
20 Nov 2024 November Author Marketing Support Group Meeting
28 Oct 2024 October meeting with Nadia Pupa
19 Oct 2024 October Workshop with Jonathan Maberry
23 Sep 2024 SDWEG 45th Anniversary Celebration
7 Sep 2024 September workshop with Adam Greenfield
28 Aug 2024 August Author Marketing Support Group Meeting
26 Aug 2024 August meeting with Penn Wallace
22 Jul 2024 July Membership Meeting with Jode Millman
16 Jul 2024 SD Central Library Author of the Month
26 Jun 2024 Author Marketing Support Group Meeting, June 26
24 Jun 2024 June meeting with Laura Perkins
29 May 2024 Author Marketing Support Group
18 May 2024 Writers' Games with Margaret Harmon: In Person
24 Apr 2024 Author Marketing Support Group
15 Apr 2024 Tamara Merrill: How-to Tips for 2024 Anthology Submission Success
25 Mar 2024 Penn Wallace - First Page Critique
28 Feb 2024 Author Marketing Support Group
26 Feb 2024 Matt Coyle - Openings: The Importance of Chapter One
21 Feb 2024 Committee: SD Writers Festival
7 Feb 2024 Workshop: Verb Your Way to More Lively Writing
31 Jan 2024 Author Marketing Support Group Meeting
22 Jan 2024 The Long and Winding Road from Moments to Memoir
20 Jan 2024 Character Therapy--And You're the Shrink!
18 Dec 2023 December Holiday Celebration
27 Nov 2023 How to Get Your Short Story Published
21 Nov 2023 Board of Directors
23 Oct 2023 Create Your Own Simple, Stylish Website
14 Oct 2023 Workshop: Writing Nonfiction
25 Sep 2023 A Private Investigator's Perspective
28 Aug 2023 Writing Memoirs Even if You Are an Ordinary Person
19 Aug 2023 Workshop: Recipe for a Perfect Romance
24 Jul 2023 Literary Games with Margaret Harmon
8 Jul 2023 Workshop - Art of the Pitch with Jonathan Maberry
6 Jul 2023 Writing the Hero's or Heroine's Journey
26 Jun 2023 12 Step Program to Publishing
24 Jun 2023 Northpark Book Fair at Verbatim Books
17 Jun 2023 Workshop: How to break free from self-doubt and flourish
14 Jun 2023 San Diego Travel Writers Event: Wandering Words
13 Jun 2023 KC Grifant reading at Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree
12 Jun 2023 San Diego Public Library Local Author Event with Tamara Merrill
3 Jun 2023 Once Upon a Book Fair
27 May 2023 Adjunct to In-person meeting
27 May 2023 Membership Get-together and Anthology Celebration
22 May 2023 Deepening Your Relationship to Poetry
21 May 2023 KC Grifant at Warwick's in La Jolla
20 May 2023 KC Grifant Book Signing and Inteview
15 May 2023 Workshop: So the Book is Done. Now What? A Candid Conversation
24 Apr 2023 Marketing: A Necessary Part of the Writing Plan
20 Apr 2023 Workshop: How to Write Successful Mystery Sequels
27 Mar 2023 Market Your Book
6 Mar 2023 Workshop: How to Turn Rejections into Opportunities
27 Feb 2023 Authors, Speak Confidently About Your Book!
22 Feb 2023 Workshop: The Basics of Persuasive Writing
30 Jan 2023 Workshop: How To Write Close Point of View
23 Jan 2023 Perpetual Metamorphosis: Transforming Trauma into (Healing) Poetry
19 Dec 2022 December Holiday Celebration
28 Nov 2022 The Challenges of English Grammar
24 Oct 2022 Let’s Make a Scene! Showing vs. Telling
8 Oct 2022 Workshop: Standing at the Intersection of Poetry and Prose: Writing Micro
26 Sep 2022 Marketing Your Book Before It’s Published
10 Sep 2022 Workshop: Protecting Your Artistic Rights
22 Aug 2022 Get Your Story Unstuck with the Secrets of the Story Types
25 Jul 2022 Cover, Cover - What Should My Cover Do?
23 Jul 2022 Workshop: Psychology Tips to Boost Creativity and Productivity
27 Jun 2022 Writers Read: Excerpts from the Power of Ten
20 Jun 2022 Workshop: What Your Characters Want and Why
23 May 2022 Screenwriting's two most important principles--a shock-proof, guaranteed strategy for screenwriting success.
25 Apr 2022 First Page Slam
28 Mar 2022 Strategies for Writing About Trauma and Coping with the Fallout
28 Feb 2022 Writing Demystified
24 Jan 2022 The History, Purpose, and Future of the Guild Anthology
20 Dec 2021 Holiday Party 2021
22 Nov 2021 Constructing Concrete Characters
25 Oct 2021 Anthology Book Launch
27 Sep 2021 Who’s On Your Team?
23 Aug 2021 Open Mic Night
26 Jul 2021 Are You a Plotter or a Pantster? Patrick Ross
17 Jul 2021 Book Launch Workshop
28 Jun 2021 Add Sizzle to Your Non-Romantic Work, by Theresa Halvorsen
24 May 2021 Penn Wallace - First Page Slam
21 May 2021 For the Love of Writing - Coffee & Writing #2
15 May 2021 Workshop on Creating Book Covers w/ Karl Keating
26 Apr 2021 Jared Kuritz - Websites, Social Media & More: Online Presence, Components & Functionalities for Effective Book Marketing
23 Apr 2021 For the Love of Writing - Coffee & Writing
22 Mar 2021 General Meeting March 22 - Authors Read from Anthology
22 Feb 2021 Successful Authors Have These Things in Common, Guest Speaker Amy Collins
13 Feb 2021 Point of View Workshop
25 Jan 2021 Monthly Meeting - Lisa Kastner of Running Wild Publishing
21 Dec 2020 Virtual Holiday Party & Open Mic Night
14 Dec 2020 Marketing Committee Meeting (members only)


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