From 10:45 am
At West Branch Regional Library
1425 Chaffee Road S. Jacksonville, FL 32221
Lana McAra is an award-winning author and ghostwriter of 48 titles with a million books sold. She has been teaching how to write fiction for 20 years. She is the founding president of Vendela Publishing, LLC, a publisher that helps indie authors go from online to on shelves in bookstores and libraries. Lana is the president of the Northeast Florida Chapter of Sisters in Crime and host of The Fiction Writer's Podcast.
Lana won The Christy Award, The Book Excellence Award and The Literary Titan Silver Book Award for her historical novel Reaping the Whirlwind by Rosey Dow and her mystery series, Colorado by Rosey Dow, sold more than 250,000 copies. This year she released How to Write a Novel That Sells: From Concept to Publication by Lana McAra, a training manual for aspiring novelists.
Go to https://www.LanaMcAra.com to download your free video and ebook: “Your Novel Notebook: How to organize your materials and take your novel to the next level.”
Building Your Author BrandSuccessful authors have both a writing style that is unique to them--their genre, the tone of their stories, and even whether they write Happy Ever After or Heartbreaker Books (like Nicholas Sparks). Attendees will work through a checklist that will help them identify their brand.
Live Editing WorkshopSubmit 500 words of your writing, and Lana will go through it (kindly) in the group, so we all learn together. This is her most popular session.