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Learn to Publish and Market Your Work!
Everybody has something worth saying. This group discusses desires, accomplishments and challenges NOT in writing the book, but how to ...
Publish and MARKET your work. This Meetup takes your work to the next level!
We have hundreds of aspiring writers, and published authors, who attend each meeting. We learn about SELLING our products and services. We learn about the importance of branding and the how to's of marketing. People cannot buy books they don't know exists! We meet at 6:30 PM, the second Tuesday of every month. Please come and share your personal and professional experiences with us. We welcome our members to offer their expertise. If you have information/expertise that would benefit members such as listed below, please contact us:
Author - Are you published? Are a paid blogger? Please let us know. We post links to your books on our Members' Book Pages.
Editor - Are you either working or have experience as an Editor/proof reader, etcetera?
Ghost Writer – Do you write and/or publish under a non-de plume?
Agent or Publisher? Please let us know.
Experienced - Do you have formal training? Creative Writing courses or other experience that would benefit members?
Writing Links
Authors with published articles or books may include links to their media pages (web sites, Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, etc.). Please post your writing sample on our discussion pages.
Member Support
We are writers, we few hundred. While our avocation is publishing and marketing our work, our passion is our writing. We support each other. We help each other get started. Therefore, members should support each other by writing a brief review about the book and why somebody might OR should BUY the book on as many review channels as possible such as Amazon, Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter and more. For Amazon, in order to post a book review, be sure to state that you received a review copy if you did not purchase a copy or Amazon will remove the review as a non-verified purchase.
See our information pages:
http://www.meetup.com/Aspiring-Writers-Marketing-Publishing/about/
Editing/Proofing/Critique
See our Pages for the difference: http://www.meetup.com/Aspiring-Writers-Marketing-Publishing/pages/Critiquing%2C_Proofing_and_Editing
This is not a writing critique group. The goal of this group to provide assistance, help and information to authors about publishing, writing, and marketing plus other publishing & marketing related topics not readily available via the internet. This group is run and supported by Jewel Parago, President & CEO of Evershine Press, Inc a local publisher. Jewel offers group members private consultations to assist members in maximizing their publishing and marketing needs by using her extensive knowledge of the publishing industry. Our meetups are designed around topics that fulfill group interests, so feel free to suggest topics for discussion.
Business
Fees: Meetings are free to attend.
Introductions: We start off our meetings by introducing ourselves: what are you writing (elevator pitch), why should somebody read or BUY your work, and what you need help with.
Comments/pictures: Please add a comment and/or take pictures at each meeting. See How to Share Your Photographs page.
Call and/or text Jewel Parago (813) 240-2571
Upcoming events
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FREE DISCOVERY NIGHT WEBINAR!
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for a no-cost sneak peek of our entire webinar series, with quick craft lessons from our Writing Success Series faculty, including: Beth Barany, Debbie Burke, Kate Dane, Sheree Greer, Janice Hardy, Angela Hunt, Henry Lien, Donald Maass, Henry Neff, Lorin Oberweger, Andromeda Romano-Lax, Rob Sanders, Nina Simon, Jason Sitzes, Damon Suede, and Roman White.
A can’t-miss evening of lessons from our stellar faculty!
## Webinar Deals
- Purchase Entire Success Series for $699. (The equivalent of five free webinars.)
- Donald Maass Four-Webinar Bundle for $139.
- Spend at least $225, receive $35 off (automatically applied to your cart)
- Spend at least $450, receive $70 off (automatically applied to your cart)
DELUXE TWO-PART WEBINARS offer even deeper dives into their topics, with homework, more opportunities for sharing, and more hands-on work.
Writing Success Series Webinars 2026 — Free Expressions Seminars and Literary Services
## Lorin Oberweger
is a highly sought-after independent book editor and ghostwriter with almost thirty years experience in publishing. Her company, Free Expressions, offers intensive, deep craft workshops nationwide. She’s also known for her one-on-one story mastermind session for writers of all genres of fiction and creative nonfiction.
Lorin’s students and clients have been published by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Disney, and many other presses. They have also gained representation with some of the industry’s leading literary agents and several have had work optioned for film and television.
An award-winning author, Lorin has co-written and ghostwritten eight books, several for New York Times bestselling authors of fiction and nonfiction. Her work, commissioned by major publishers, has received glowing notices from the New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, NPR, and others. Her latest co-author credit is THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK, written with Chris Anderson, director of TED Conferences.
With bestselling author Veronica Rossi, Lorin is the author of the New Adult books, BOOMERANG, REBOUND, and BOUNCE, published by Harper/William Morrow under the pen name Noelle August. The novels were praised by Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, among others, and BOOMERANG was chosen as a “new and notable” selection for Target Stores across the US.1 attendee
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