So, you’ve written a book. Now what? Whether you’ve written a great American novel and want to share it with the world, or your memoirs to pass on to family and friends. This class is for you. In the first session you will learn how to prepare your manuscript for publishing, the business of selling your books, and some tips on marketing and promotion. The second session will be a hands-on learning experience of preparing your manuscript and cover in Microsoft Word, setting up a Kindle Direct Publishing account, uploading your files and publishing your book on Amazon. The third session will contain information on public relations and marketing platforms, including social media, along with strategies for marketing. The up-dated manual will be emailed to you prior to class. June Anderson has written and published a dozen books of her own and helped countless other people publish theirs, as well. Sara Anderson has guided many writers through the technology of publishing, seen to the publication of their books, and advised them about ways to promote their books on social media.

Call it a memoir or a collection of life stories. Why record important events and details about your life? In three sessions, learn about various types of life stories from general information for historic reference to fully developed narratives about highlights and important chapters of your life and the people and places that are or have been a part of it. The first session will introduce you to several different types of life stories from the recording of basic historic dates, details and events to focused memoirs to personal essays. You will put together a timeline of your life as a starting point and will select one incident to write about in a personal essay for session two. The second session will include a short sharing session and will help you to incorporate storytelling strategies into your second personal essay. The third session will focus on where to go from here, ways of preserving your stories from handmade books to “published” pieces, fully annotated scrapbooks, or focused memoirs. The workshop will include short lessons in strategies for making your stories come to life and exercises to practice these strategies