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One-Day Workshops

Self-Publishing: What's Actually Involved?

One-Day Workshop: 10.30 – 16.00

The mechanics of, the theories behind, the sheer hard work involved and the unadulterated joy to be had in publishing your own book.

Main lecturer: Lloyd Bradley; guest speaker: Joel Chernin.

Prerequisites: A love of books; a solid idea for what you want to publish, although a finished manuscript would be even better. 

Class size: 18 students maximum

Fees: £40.00 pp; FREE for Islington Library members

The idea of publishing your own book is very attractive, never more so than at present with Amazon, e-books, inexpensive hardware and software and digital printing, but while it can be a relatively straightforward activity, to do it well can present a massive amount of work. And that’s just the production – getting it to your prospective readers is another matter entirely. Self Publishing: What Is Actually Involved is taught by industry professionals and will navigate you through the twists and turns and potential pitfalls as it covers every aspect of the self-publishing process from the editing and design of your book, to budgeting, to how to get the best value from a printer, to what you will need to do to take it to market.

Self Publishing: What Is Actually Involved includes practical exercises and the opportunity for informal discussion with your fellow self-publishers to exchange ideas and ambitions.

While Self Publishing: What Is Actually Involved won’t guarantee you a best seller, it will give you your best book with the greatest chance of reaching your proposed readership.

The next Self-Publishing: What's Actually Involved? workshop: 

Saturday 21st March 2020, 10.30 – 16.00

Islington Central Library: 2 Fieldway Crescent, Highbury East, London N5 1PF

Fees: £40.00 pp – booking through Eventbrite, below 

FREE for Islington Library members, but must still be booked through Eventbrite

 

Book through Eventbrite

Tell Your Story: Creating Memoirs,
Biographies or Area or Family Chronicles

One-Day Workshop: 11.00 – 16.00

Writing & Presenting stories related to individuals, groups of people, areas or events 

Main lecturer: Lloyd Bradley. Guest speaker: Joel Chernin

Prerequisites: An interesting story; associated visual material

Class size: 18 students maximum

Telling your own story, that of your family or another group or individual is a particular skill set, requiring information gathering, interviewing, structuring and most effective use of photos and visuals. Tell Your Story uses industry professionals to explain the techniques behind creating compelling and enthralling narratives either for print or as digital documents and will answer any questions you might have. At the end of this fascinating and instructive day, you will leave having acquired the tools to present your story in the style you know it deserves. These techniques applies to other group narratives, such as a community, a sports team or wedding party or school class.

Tell Your Story includes practical exercises and the opportunity for informal discussion with your fellow writers to exchange ideas and ambitions.

The next Tell Your Story workshop: 

Saturday 28th March 2020, 10.30 – 16.00

Islington Central Library: 2 Fieldway Crescent, Highbury East, London N5 1PF

Fees: £40.00 pp – booking through Eventbrite, below 

FREE for Islington Library members, but must still be booked through Eventbrite

Postponed until further notice 

Book through Eventbrite

What You Need To Know: Research, Interviewing and Fact-Gathering 

One-Day Workshop: 11.00 – 16.00

How to amass information and classify it for the easiest access.

Main lecturer: Lloyd Bradley. Guest speaker: Joel Chernin

Prerequisites: An inquisitive and open mind 

Class size: 15 students

Fee: TBC

Every work of non-fiction, whether it's a biography, an instruction manual or a history book, will only ever be as good as it's research. It's a fact-based genre, but while it's your presentation and interpretation of those facts that will get your book noticed you have to gather them first. What You Need To Know covers all aspects of information collecting and collating – how to get it, including interviewing, how much you'll need, what to do with it to get the most out of it and how to make sure it's always easily accessible as you build your book.  

Date and location of next What  You Need To Know workshop to be confirmed

Postponed until further notice 

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