June Events, Workshop & Resources

June 6, 2011

Hi Everyone,

Happy Monday!

I hope June is off to a great start for you!

It’s been a busy few weeks with Book Expo America in NYC and then back to LA for the Produced By Conference, Pipeline’s Secret Door Pitchfest, Great American Pitchfest & checking in at Steve Kaplan’s Comedy Intensive.

Up next is NATPE’s Pitchcon (formerly LATVFest), June 9 & 10 followed by two weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area & then the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, June 24.

I’ll be blogging about all of these events in the coming weeks at: www.creativecvg.blogspot.com & www.mediabrandworkshop.com

I am excited to announce that we’ll be starting our June Media Brand Workshop this week. Tonight, June 6 is our Welcome/Overview/NYC & LA Event Round Up Download Handout at: http://s3.amazonaws.com/MediaBrandWorkshop/Media+Brand+Workshop-6-6-11.pdf

Tomorrow, June 7 is our Guest Interview with Self-Publishing Guru & Book Futurist, Dan Poynter of ParaPublishing More information can be found on our blog at: http://mediabrandworkshop.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/guest-interview-67-all-about-ebooks-self-publishing-promotion-with-dan-poynter/

Calls are at 5:30PM PT / 8:30PM ET

Dial In: 712-432-3100

Bridge: 801264

You can also find all of the MP3s of our Media Brand Workshop Guest Interviews at: http://mediabrandworkshop.wordpress.com/guest-interviews/

There is no cost for these calls.

When you sign up for the workshop we look at: 1) What You’ve Got 2) What You Want 3) Market Realities & Opportunities 4) Concrete Next Steps

1 Month is $150

We’ve been having a lot of great success stories coming from Media Brand Workshop participants & alumni these past few weeks.

They include:

Congrats to Marilyn Jaye Lewis (Freak Parade) & Charlene Costanzo (The Thirteenth Gift) on Winning IPPY Awards from the Independent Book Publisher’s Association.

Congrats to Kim Kaplan on publishing her eBook, “A Parent’s Guide to Early Autism Intervention” available at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/59362

Congrats to Niya C. Sisk on publishing her books, “Bragging, Bantering & Brawling” and “Vignettes of Provence Paintings and Stories” both available on Lulu.com at: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bragging-bantering-bawling/15835288?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2 and http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/vignettes-of-provence-paintings-and-stories/15818481?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

Congrats to Garden Urthark on publishing his eBook “Other World” available at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/51153

Congrats to Alexis Niki on her Webseries “My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation” being invited to the Marseilles Web Fest in October 2011. She’s also in competition for the International Movie Trailer Festival www.internationalmovietrailerfestival.com Search Title, Watch Trailer & Vote!

Congrats to Thomas Matt on his new radio show “Boomers Rock” on Fitnesss Radio, www.ftns.co

We’ve also got lots of other media, apps, webseries, book, film & TV projects in the works.

If you are interested in joining us this month or in the future, you can learn more at: www.mediabrandworkshop.com

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In other news, some resources that I recommend:

Smashwords

www.smashwords.com

San Francisco Writers University

www.sfwritersu.com

ScriptPipeline

www.scriptpipeline.com

The Script-a-thon