Cover Design and Other Secrets of a Great Self-Published Book
Friday, May 5, 2017, 9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.
with
Andrew Benzie
Publisher, Designer, Marketer, Andrew Benzie Books
A popular go-to publisher for writers with questions on publishing their own books, Bay Area native Andrew Benzie is returning is Sacramento to answer more questions about publishing!
A presenter full of ideas and solutions, Andrew promises to tell us the important elements of a good published book. His resume includes more than 25 years of experience in the design industry. He has worked for both corporate art departments and for himself as a freelance designer for Andrew Benzie Creative Design (ABCD). In 2010 he established his own publishing company, Andrew Benzie Books to help authors design, publish, and market their books in both softcover and eBook formats.
The California Writers Club–Sacramento Branch Networking Meeting is held the first Friday of every month at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 2216 Sunrise Blvd., Rancho Cordova (just north of Highway 50) starting at 9 AM. Meetings are free. Attendees pay for their own breakfast. Get map.
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Victoria is the author of the novel The Bone Weaver and editor of six anthologies: He Said What?, The Other Woman, For Keeps, The Face in the Mirror, Exit Laughing, and FAITH. Her play, The Other Woman, based on her first anthology, was featured across the United States in 2015, with simultaneous readings at more than twenty theater venues. Her play Entangled, an adaptation of the memoir Entangled: A Chronicle of Late Love, was in development at Z Space in San Francisco. Victoria’s first screenplay, MAIDSTONE, is now with director Peter Werner. Her screenplay ROZZY is based on Caroline Leavitt’s novel Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Victoria is story developer and writer of Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps, aired nationwide by PBS. She teaches Personal Essay in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, is an instructor at writers’ conferences in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, and teaches workshops, often with mystery writer Anne Perry and novelist/memoirist Barbara Abercrombie. Victoria is a 2010 San Francisco Library Laureate.