WEBINAR | Choose Your Best Publishing Path: Balancing Dollars and Sense
September 16 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
How do books land on shelves? And what publishing path fits your time, budget, and expectations?
For full-length fiction, nonfiction and memoir, including collections
Included in the Season Pass
With over four million new titles for sale last year, publishing is a multibillion-dollar business. Costs, time, and maintaining control over the process are critical elements in an author’s decision, and every writer has their own set of must-haves and non-negotiables. From acquisition to sales to your ideal readers, it’s vital to educate yourself even before you finish the book.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of traditional, hybrid, and self-publishing. We’ll tackle the financial costs and resources required for each and learn from established authors what they enjoy most (and least) about their chosen path. You’ll leave with information to determine which option is the best fit not only for your work but also to meet your own goals and expectations.
In this webinar, you will:
- UNDERSTAND traditional, hybrid, and self-publishing—and what each actually costs in time, money, and creative control
- IDENTIFY which publishing path best aligns with your goals, your book, and your non-negotiables
- HEAR firsthand from established authors about what they wish they had known before choosing their publishing route
- GAIN the vocabulary and framework to ask the right questions—of agents, publishers, hybrid presses, and yourself
- BUILD a realistic roadmap for one of the most important decisions of your writing life
This webinar is best for new-to-publishing writers
- who are indecisive of their publishing path
- who are ready to publish but require more info
- interested in the book publishing business
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
A buoyant, high-energy teacher who motivates writers to “stick with it,” Kristin Owens, PhD, is an award-winning educator and writer living in oxygen-deprived Colorado. She’s a contributor to Writer’s Digest, 5280, and Wine Enthusiast. Her debut novel, Elizabeth Sails, was shortlisted for the 2025 Gilda Prize and Killer Nashville’s Award for Best Cozy. With her background in university instruction, she takes complex subjects and breaks them down into informative and entertaining bite-sized pieces. She can usually be found (playing and working) onboard a cruise ship.
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