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2010 New Year’s resolution for all writers, authors and poets
Publishing 101
From Final Draft to Book Sales in Nine Months
The Wilkinson Public Library, the Telluride Writers Guild, Telluride Inside...and Out, Between the Covers Bookstore, and Sirius Publications are hosting a free step-by-step instructional journey led by local writer R. J. Rubadeau designed to take YOUR manuscript from copy editing to publication with a deadline for marketing a published book during Christmas 2010.
Telluride Inside..and Out * * * on-line launch
Sunday January 3
(Weekly “YourBookBiz©” Sunday updates and daily blog)
Come learn all about it!
Wilkinson Library Program Room
Wednesday January 6, 6 p.m.
THE PLAN:
Published writer, author, award winning poet, and long time Telluride resident R. J. Rubadeau is embarking on a unique first time journey and would like to share the experience through the publication of his new novel. Each step from editing and releasing the final draft/galley text, to finding a publisher/printing company, designing the interior and cover, doing market research and preparing a marketing plan, finding a national distributor, establishing a standard media campaign, building a web site and internet outreach strategy, finding and attending book promotion events, tracking sales, and establishing your own publishing company will be explored in real time on the site. Participants are encouraged to follow the step-by-step progress with their own project in mind (or in hand) and many optional opportunities will be made available for communal critiques and editing of their own works-in-progress.
Your first step is to register on-line and become a participant. Writers will experience the joy of an epiphany. While writing is perhaps the loneliest of all professions there are hundreds of other artists facing the exact same unknown questions that you are about the fate of your book once the creative writing part is complete. What’s out there for writers once you have scaled the mountain by finishing the work? Here is an opportunity to answer your questions while we create a place to share information, skills, experience, resources and good words in a nurturing and information rich environment. We want you to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Options abound. Lets explore this new and changing book business together.
THE MODEL PROJECT:
GATSBY’S LAST RESORT is the first in a series of Telluride Murder Mysteries by R. J. Rubadeau to be published by Sirius Publications. The genre is detective, the lighting noir. Telluride is the stage. Blackmail, infidelity, greed, power, politics, real estate, murder most foul and belly laughs are the ingredients in this adult “who-dun-it.” Our flawed protagonist has a fixation on “flapper fiction,” and a mainstay of the Telluride Murder Mystery series’ is a recurring back-story that involves fictional characters and situations from classic novels spilling over into our hero’s real life without warning. Other completed early drafts in the ongoing series include THE FAT MAN, a bizarre ode to Dashiell Hammett, and THE BIG SNOOZE, where the author sends Raymond Chandler and Phillip Marlowe out for a romp with Telluride’s own reality-challenged private eye.
Fitzgerald's 1920's immoral mob of style, privilege and money currently lives on in the recent crop of seasonal residents in Telluride,
Being a bubble-off-center rather than hard-boiled is the working theme of the Last Resort Detective Agency. Wit Thorpe, his nine-year-old daughter Cody, a millionaire barber, and a posse of colorful under-employed locals are the unlikely cogs in this fractured enterprise. Thorpe is a mixed breed Ute/Hispanic father making ends meet by running a peeping tom service for aspiring divorcees looking to profit from their wealthier partner’s infidelity. He is trying desperately to turn his obsession with classic detective fiction into a marketable piece of writing in order to get a four-hundred-pound monkey of failure off his back and close the door on his present occupation. In our central character’s developing writing project within the story about F. Scott Fitgerald’s search for a muse, Wit creates a mysterious red head, full of temptation and sin, and then meets her in the flesh. Murder, deception, dark secrets, Meyer Wolfshiem and blackmail follow with our detective finding himself in the slammer framed for a hate-crime murder. He probably didn’t do it.
LEARN BY DOING:
Each week a series of tasks and projects with the ultimate goal of a published book on the shelves in nine months will be researched, discussed, accomplished and checked off. Each week beginning with our launch date of January 3, 2010 a section of GATSBY’S LAST RESORT will be posted for final editing, critique and author approved revisions. Links to the latest writing, editing and publishing resources will be posted, maintained and researched as we explore all the internet resources available. Breaking news from the Print-On-Demand and self-publishing industry will also be posted for discussion. Each active participant in the process will be acknowledged and credited in the final book. We hope that the outcome of this project will be a growing and well prepared community of soon to be published artists. Everyone that links to our project’s website, whether local or global, will share the journey in this groundbreaking effort.
Bound For Roque Island: Sailing Maine and the World
by R. J. Rubadeau
Due in June 2010
special Advance Copy available April. 15th 2010
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