June's Events, Workshop & Resources

Hi Everyone,

Happy Monday!  I hope June is off to a great start for you!

It's been a busy few weeks with Book Expo America in NYC and then back to LA for the Produced By Conference, Pipeline's Secret Door Pitchfest, Great American Pitchfest & checking in at Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive.

Up next is NATPE's Pitchcon (formerly LATVFest), June 9 & 10 followed by two weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area & then the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, June 24.

I'll be blogging about all of these events in the coming weeks at:
www.creativecvg.blogspot.com & www.mediabrandworkshop.com 

I am excited to announce that we'll be starting our June Media Brand Workshop this week.

Tonight, June 6 is our
Welcome/Overview/NYC & LA Event Round Up
Download Handout at:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/MediaBrandWorkshop/Media+Brand+Workshop-6-6-11.pdf

Tomorrow, June 7 is our
Guest Interview with Self-Publishing
Guru & Book Futurist, Dan Poynter
of ParaPublishing
More information can be found on our blog at:
http://mediabrandworkshop.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/guest-interview-67-all-about-ebooks-self-publishing-promotion-with-dan-poynter/

Calls are at 5:30PM PT / 8:30PM ET
Dial In:
712-432-3100
Bridge: 801264

You can also find all of the MP3s of our Media Brand Workshop
Guest Interviews at: http://mediabrandworkshop.wordpress.com/guest-interviews/

There is no cost for these calls.

When you sign up for the workshop we look at: 1) What You've Got
2) What You Want 3) Market Realities & Opportunities 4) Concrete Next Steps

1 Month is $150

We've been having a lot of great success stories coming from Media Brand Workshop
participants & alumni these past few weeks.

They include:

Congrats to Marilyn Jaye Lewis (Freak Parade) & Charlene Costanzo (The Thirteenth Gift) on
Winning IPPY Awards from the Independent Book Publisher's Association.

Congrats to Kim Kaplan on publishing her eBook, "A Parent's Guide to Early Autism
Intervention" available at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/59362

Congrats to Niya C. Sisk on publishing her books, "Bragging, Bantering & Brawling"
and "Vignettes of Provence Paintings and Stories" both available on Lulu.com at:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bragging-bantering-bawling/15835288?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2 and
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/vignettes-of-provence-paintings-and-stories/15818481?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

Congrats to Garden Urthark on publishing his eBook "Other World" available at:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/51153

Congrats to Alexis Niki on her Webseries "My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation" being
invited to the Marseilles Web Fest in October 2011.  She's also in competition
for the International Movie Trailer Festival www.internationalmovietrailerfestival.com
Search Title, Watch Trailer & Vote!

Congrats to Thomas Matt on his new radio show "Boomers Rock" on
Fitnesss Radio, www.ftns.co

We've also got lots of other media, apps, webseries, book, film & TV projects in
the works.

If you are interested in joining us this month or in the future, you can learn more at:
www.mediabrandworkshop.com 

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In other news, some resources that I recommend:

Smashwords
www.smashwords.com 

San Francisco Writers University
www.sfwritersu.com

ScriptPipeline
www.scriptpipeline.com 

The Script-a-thon
www.thescriptathon.com 

ScriptShark
www.scriptshark.com 

NATPE
www.natpe.org

NATPE's PitchConference
www.pitchcon.com

Santa Barbara Writers Conference
www.sbwriters.com 

CreateSpace
www.createspace.com 

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To your success,

Philippa

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