Seize Your Publishing Future

Writers have had control of their pens for centuries, but rarely did they control their publishers. If they were lucky enough to have a publisher.
 
Now, thanks to the magic of the Digital Age, authors can control both their pens and their publishers, and that control comes with minimal investment. As in “close to free.”
 

Tom Johnson, a journalist and journalism educator for more than 30 years, introduces audiences to the power shift inherent in the print-on-demand tools emerging on the Internet. These tools — most are already accessible from every writer’s computer — can move authors into the ranks of the published with a minimal investment of time and a relatively easy learning curve.
 
Johnson will conduct an introductory “Indie Publishing” workshop July 28 at Santa Fe Complex beginning at 7:00pm. The workshop highlights basic computer programs and techniques readily available to help writers publish their own novels, memoir, poetry, dissertation, cookbook and even photo collections enhanced with text.
 
Participants will learn to use free, on-line web applications that guide writers though the formatting of their work so it will look good in print. They will learn how those formatted pages, created with easily available word processing templates and including graphics, can be saved and uploaded to web-based print-on-demand companies.