Instructor Christine Pride has worked for Random House and Hyperion Books, and recently launched her own consulting agency for publishers, agents, and aspiring writers. Over the course of her career, she’s published a number of critically acclaimed projects, including eight New York Times bestselling books. She’ll provide you with an overview of the publishing industry, tips for pitching your book to agents, and feedback on your proposal and query letter.

Use the code FIRSTBOOK at checkout to save $50 on enrollment. Seats are limited in this class, so register soon.

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Want to get your manuscript published, but not sure how to get started? Join our Self-Publishing Finishing School starting April 3, 2013.

Weekly live video webcasts feature a variety of great speakers, including Mark Coker (founder, Smashwords), Colleen Hoover (bestselling self-published author), and Guy Kawasaki (author, APE! What the Plus!).

Join Mediabistro publishing editor Jason Boog for this step-by-step course will teach you how to design, distribute, and market your book without a publisher or agent.

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Early bird rates are available today. Save $100 when you sign up before they end tomorrow, September 20.

Our speakers include:

Michael Bepko, Global Online Community Manager, Whole Foods

Brian Carter, Author, LinkedIn For Business

Keidra Chaney, Digital Content Strategist, The Web Farm

Lauren Cucinotta, Branding + Editorial Manager, TEDx

Jennifer Dubrow, Global Social Business Transformation Leader, Inside Sales, IBM

Frank Eliason, Senior Vice President of Social Media, Citibank

Jim Hopkinson, Digital Marketing Strategist + Blogger, The Hopkinson Report

Barbara Pantuso, Director of Product Strategy, Huge

Dr. Jay Parkinson, Pediatrician and Social Entreprenuer

Andrew Patterson, Director of New Media, MLB Advanced Media

Dave Pickett, Social Media Editor, University of Chicago

Amy Porterfield, Author, Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies

Brian Ries, Senior Editor, Social Media, Newsweek & The Daily Beast

Jennifer Rubio, Social Media Marketing Manager, Warby Parker

Steven Tristan Young, Director, Acquisition Marketing and Brand Awareness, Seamless.com

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If you want to save money on the course, you can write a tweet about your favorite teacher and address it to the Mediabistro Twitter feed with the #teacherstory hashtag. Everyone who participates will get a $50 credit toward any Mediabistro course direct messaged to them. The five best tweets will get a $100 credit toward any Mediabistro course. The winner of the best tweet will get a free Mediabistro course. Follow this link for all the details.

Here is more detail about the Writing and Selling Your First Book course that starts next week: “Laura Mazer has helped many first-time writers get book deals, and she will share her secrets to help you finish, pitch, and sell a brilliant first book project. She will answer questions about how to break into book publishing and assignments will help you hone your book idea and elevator pitch and put you on the path to selling your book.”

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Bianculli is a veteran television critic who was given unprecedented access to television icons, the Smothers Brothers. In Dangerously Funny, the author chronicles the story of Tom and Dick, from their childhood and early career to the meteoric rise and swift fall of their beloved show. For more information on the signing, please visit: http://www.dangerouslyfunnythebook.com

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With the excitement of the current
Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas going on, we wondered how technology might change publishing in the near future.

We asked technology expert
Scott Steinberg, publisher and lead technology analyst for DigitalTrends.com to weigh in on his vision of the book publishing in the next 10 years.

There was a time when some may have scoffed at an outsider’s opinion of book publishing. Now, technology and entertainment have merged and their vision of the future is just as valid for the book publishing industry as a veteran book publisher from a major house.

Scott Steinberg:
Five core ways technology will revolutionize the future of book publishing in the next 10 years, if not sooner (think half a decade or so), depending

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Former publisher, Richard Nash has never been one to hold back his voice on how he feels the book publishing industry needs to make dramatic changes.

We asked him what he sees happening in the next 10 years and here is what he had to say:

Richard Nash:
1. Most predictions for 2020 that are not actually wrong will happen by 2015 or sooner.

2. Most predictions for 2020 ungrounded in history will be inadequate.

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It was not that long ago when people said, “Google, who?” Now, Google has become a verb as in “just Google it”. Google, once only a search engine, is poised to partner with book publishers or perhaps one day go head-to-head.

That’s not all. Since the Year 2000, we’ve seen the creation, rise and sometimes fall of Napster, the iPod, the Kindle, and Smashwords. We’ve seen massive lay-offs at major publishing houses and experimental publishing entities created such as Vanguard Press, Open Road Media and HarperStudio that have challenged the way the book business has existed for the last century.

What changes will we see in the next 10 years? What will life be like for the book publishing industry in 2020? In the next series of articles, we will uncover predictions by some of the industry’s most respected and vocal advocates for change.

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