A four-part audio course given by publisher and author EJ Thornton.

• This course will teach you how to save money when getting your book edited.
• The four most important parts of cover design and how to talk to your graphic artist to get them to create a cover that sells the book for you!
• The 10 most costly misconceptions authors have about the publishing process and what the REAL truth is...
• The elements of a publishing contract and the most importants parts that need to be negotiated.
• An effective Internet strategy for book marketing
• How to create a press kit AND what you do with one once you have it!
• How to Pick a Publisher
• How to write a query letter that gets past the intern in the Mail room
• What "Rejection" really means!
• What ISBN's say about their publishers
• When you need a literary agent and what to look for
• How to manage the social media of the internet to promote your book
• The many other ways authors get paid once their books are published!

This is a 4-week course beginning Wednesday July 22, 2009 at 6pm MST. It will be taught on the following Wednesdays, July 29, 2009, August 5 and August 12, 2009. It will be recorded for class participants if they have conflicts with any or all of those class times.

Its intent is to teach authors how to get their books published in the most cost-effective manner possible. It is to teach authors how to pick publishers that are right for their style of book and what to do with their books once they are published.

There is a free one-hour audio course available at EJThornton.com which will help you decide if this class is right for you.

The REAL 'first-time author's curse' is INEXPERIENCE. What you don't know CAN COST YOU! And you don't know what you don't know until you become an educated publishing services consumer. Making you an educated publishing services consumer is the goal of this class!