Consulting.
I get it. The amount of information out there is overwhelming.
With 15 years in publishing and over 20 years in media, I’ve got you covered. Book a consulting session and have my brain at your disposal.
We can chat in person; you can ask all the questions and I can set you back on your path in order to make your book dreams happen.
Consulting Services
- General book publishing: get an overview of the industry and how it works
- Magazine publishing: a general overview, including how magazine publishing compares to book publishing
- Distribution: what are the many ways to sell your book and ‘get it out there’, what’s involved
- Marketing: building an author platform and personal brand, finding your target market
- Technical detail: what’s involved in the publishing set up including ISBN, barcoding, cataloguing, file set up
- Self publishing: breakdown of steps involved from completed manuscript to launch, including various print options
- Sales, marketing and social media: different options to publicise your work based on comfort level and product
- The next step: what happens after the book is published, book launches, follow up promotional ideas
- Concepts: establishing ways to convert existing workshops, programs, or skills into a books
- Turning an idea into reality: how to structure a book, plotting or planning, people to work with in the early stages
Prices are in Australian dollars and are GST exclusive. Session rate is for up to 2 hours and session can be utilised via online video chat, in person chat (dependent on geography) or via email.
Other Services
Tips, tricks and other bits to know
It’s About Time
It's a strange thing - time. Things always seem to take forever, or it else it all happens too quickly, and never are these two issues more apparent than in the writing world. I worked in traditional media for a long time - radio, television and then magazine...
A Simple Guide To Publishing
If I had a dollar for every time someone said to me, "I'd like to write a book!" I'd be a very wealthy person. In fact, I'd be so rich I wouldn't need to help anyone create their book. As soon as people know you work in publishing in any capacity, they tend to share...
Creating A Cover – ‘Control Freak’.
There's a great deal of thought that goes into creating a wonderful cover. I wanted to share the process of one particular title, just to explain the various steps that are undertaken to reach the final result. Life coach, Cory Thomsen, recently had her first book...