3/18 Self publishing in Children's and YA markets (Special Event – Hosted by ALLi)

March 11, 2014

YA and Children's Authors – Live Self-publishing Q&A Session (Hosted by ALLi – a IndieReCon sponsor)

Next Tues 18 March 3pm EST / 7pm GMT – All Welcome!

Are you a children's or YA author thinking about self-publishing, or already self-publishing?

The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is hosting a FREE live Q&A session on YouTube on Tuesday 18 March where ALLi Director, Orna Ross, will be fielding your questions to Shelli Johannes (AKA S.R Johannes) who writes for the YA/New Adult markets, and Karen Inglis who writes for pre-schoolers and up to age 10/11.

Send us your questions

If you'd like to ask Shelli or Karen about any aspect of self-publishing for their markets,please add your question on this form in advance and we'll try to include your question in the schedule.

You'll also be able to comment during the session using the YouTube chat functionality.

We hope to see you there – just turn up to http://www.youtube.com/user/IndieAuthorALLi at 3pm EST / 1pm PST / 7pm GMT

Note: You do not have to be a member to attend. But if you are interested in joining ALLI, you can do so through Shelli's web site for a 10$ discount (89$)

Guests:

Shelli, based in Atlanta, is a YA writer, the award-winning author of Amazon bestselling thrillers, Untraceable and Uncontrollable. After earning an MBA and working in corporate America for over 15 years, S.R. Johannes traded in her expensive suits, high heels, and corporate lingo for family, flip-flops, and her love of writing. She organizes the highly successful indie author online conference, IndieRecon, and is a founder member of author co-operative, The Indelibles. Unstoppable (book 3 in her YA thriller series) is scheduled for May 2014. Shelli is the YA advisor to The Alliance of Independent Authors.

Karen, who lives in London, was an early adopter of children's self-publishing in the UK and has successfully placed her three children's books The Secret Lake, Eeek! The Runaway Alien and Ferdinand Fox's Big Sleep in bricks and mortar stores in London and sold over 7,000 books across Kindle and print. She has also recently self-published a children's book app.

Please tell your friends 🙂

This Post Has 2 Comments

mspellingbv says:
August 19, 2014 at 7:27 AM
That was a great event with the charitable children.
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reception hall says:
May 20, 2014 at 7:06 AM
I was here recently for a benefit auction (proceeds going to the school I work at, so I was just there for the show, really) and it was truly an amazing experience.
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