Colleen Story
Conference Presenter
With over 20 years in the creative writing industry, Colleen M. Story has written three award-winning books to help writers succeed: Your Writing Matters, Writer Get Noticed!, and Overwhelmed Writer Rescue. Her novels include The Beached Ones, released with CamCat Books in July 2022, and Loreena’s Gift, a Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards winner. She frequently serves as a speaker and workshop leader, where she helps attendees remove mental and emotional blocks and tap into their unique creative powers. A lifelong musician, she plays the French horn in her local symphony and pit orchestras. When not writing, she’s exploring the beautiful Northwest and making up more challenging games for her smart German Shepherd to play. Find more at colleenmstory.com.
All Sessions by Colleen Story
Blogs and Newsletters
A lot of writers are asking this question these days: Do I really need a blog/newsletter? If so, why? Learn how a blog can help you grow your readership/newsletter list, and what you must have for your blog to succeed. Then find out the two can work together to broaden your reach on the market and open new doors in your writing career. Finally, discover if a blog is right for you where you are in your writing career today.
Round Table Chat - Colleen
A round table chat with one of our presenters where you can ask questions and get to know them better. There is a limit of six participants per session, so sign up early at the conference to reserve your space.
Stand Out in the Noisy World
Does your author platform look like everybody else’s? If you’re putting your work out there but nobody’s noticing, it could be that you’re lacking that “niche” that today’s writer needs to stand out from the crowd. In this class, discover how you can use your own unique strengths to develop a book marketing niche that’s totally yours. Determine the theme that unites all of your work, and discover how to use that theme across your entire author platform to draw more readers your way. Walk away with a new understanding of your strengths, a unique tagline that applies to you and your work, and the beginnings of an author platform that may bring you opportunities you never would have imagined before.
What Does it Cost to Publish a Book?
What does it cost to publish a book? Well, other than"it depends" our panel will dive in to what those costs are, and how much you or your publisher might expect to pay.
Closing Day 1: Does Your Writing Matter?
The writing life isn’t easy, and sometimes you may wonder if you’re wasting your time. Does your writing even matter? Colleen tackles this critical question while sharing experiences from her own writing life.