Lunch Talk featuring Alice Osborn, Author and Editor
Details
http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/1/c/a/event_171337322.jpegAlice Osborn will be our featured speaker on Thursday, November 8. The topic of her talk will be: "How Becoming a Published Author Can Give Your Business a Boost!"
If you’re serious about giving your business a boost, you’ll need to write a book! Writing and self-publishing your motivational, coaching or sales training book will transform you into the sought-after expert in your field. And if you wish to gain a speaking platform, being an author will certainly open many doors for you. In this can’t miss talk, published author and professional editor Alice Osborn will discuss the mechanics of self-publishing your book, along with getting your book out to your audience through proper marketing and publicity channels. She’ll also discuss how you want to write the best book possible so that your audience will want even more books from you!
Meeting Logistics:
The Meetup runs from 11:30 to 1:00. We will have open mingling and networking from 11:30 to 12:00. Lunch is $12, and you can get your lunch from the buffet. We ask that people refrain from going to the buffet during the presentation, but the buffet will be open afterward.
At 12:00, we will begin the formal presentation by the speaker. Presentations will run approximately 30 minutes.
Be sure to bring plenty of business cards!
More about Alice:
Born in Washington, D.C., the winter after Watergate to a Masterpiece Theater-obsessed mother and Archie Bunker-obsessed father, Alice’s past educational and work experience is unusually varied, and it now feeds her work as a poet, as well as an editor, coach and marketing consultant to hundreds of writers. After the Steaming Stops is her most recent collection of poetry; previous collections are Right Lane Ends and Unfinished Projects. She has taught classes and writing workshops to aspiring authors of nearly all ages (from 9 to 90), both in person and online. Alice lives in Raleigh with her husband, two children and three parakeets: Woodbird, Birdstein and Perry. Get published now with Alice’s free writing tips at http://www.aliceosborn.com .