Celebrating Independent Authors
Join our fearless leader – Admin K. S. “Kat” Brooks, as well as other industry experts including Carl Pritzkat from Publishers Weekly’s BookLife; Carla Sarratt of the New Hanover County Public Library; and Kiera Parrott from Library Journal as they provide pointers on working with libraries.
Evidence for Indies: Exploring the Library Journal Self-Published Book Survey Report from BiblioBoard Library on Vimeo.
You can read more about this on the Indie Author Day website here.
The good folks at Indie Author Day are hosting a free webinar for indie authors on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Drop by and hear about Library Journal’s groundbreaking Self-Published Book Survey Report, a first-of-its-kind study that examines the relationship between public libraries and self-published books.
In this free webinar, we’ll be hearing from our own admin, the somewhat illustrious K. S. “Kat” Brooks; as well as Carl Pritzkat from Publishers Weekly’s BookLife; Carla Sarratt of the New Hanover County Public Library; and Kiera Parrott from Library Journal.
Just hop on over to this link to register for FREE. We hope to see you there.
As you ought to know by now (because we have run a number of articles on it), the first-ever Indie Author Day is scheduled for Saturday, October 8th. The event is designed to open the doors of local libraries to indie authors.
Allie McKinney with BiblioLabs, the event organizers, has agreed to take a seat in the comfy chair and give us answers to all the questions we’re dying to ask.
For starters, Allie, how are you defining “indie author”? Continue reading “LynneQuisition: Indie Author Day”
Melissa Bowersock recently told us about October 8th, the inaugural Indie Author Day across the US and Canada. She suggested you look here to see if your library is participating. If your library isn’t listed, you can click on the “Let us know” button to nominate your library, then give your local library a friendly call to explain the event, and ask if they’d be interested in participating.
One of the first questions you’re likely to hear from your library contact is, “But what do we do?” My local library had its Indie Author Day a couple of months ago, before news hit the airwaves about Bibliolabs and a nationwide movement. I thought it might be helpful to share some of what they did. Continue reading “Indie Author Day and Your Public Library”