Winter School: Authorpreneurship - The Business of Creativity
Date:
With:
Hazel Edwards
Rating:
EMERGING, ESTABLISHED
Summary:
In the business of creativity, the author is the brand.
Details
Writers and illustrators are solo operators in the business of ideas. This session is designed for aspiring and published writers, biographers, illustrators and those who have a professional attitude towards the publishing of their books and ideas.
You will learn
- How to build your author brand
- How to write book proposals & manage publicity
- How to manage your time and energy
- Ways to approach collaborations
- How to handle success & rejection
This workshop develops employment-related skills.
About Hazel Edwards
Hazel Edwards is best known for ‘There’s a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake’ which toured as a musical in 2016. Hazel has also written junior histories and her memoir, ‘Not Just a Piece of Cake; Being an Author’ shares the workstyle behind her over 200 books. The co-written ‘Hijabi Girl’ is her latest junior fiction.
Winter School
Read more about other workshops in our Winter School program:
Winter School: Writing Grief and Trauma, 10 July
Winter School: How to Write Your Perfect YA Novel, 11 July
Winter School: A Crash Course in Freelance Journalism, 13 July
Winter School: Other People’s Lives – Storytelling and Ethics, 14 July
Winter School: Writing and Structuring Memoir, 15 July
Winter School: Lessons from Commercial Fiction, 16 July
Winter School: Writing Place, 17 July
Winter School: Writing and Advocacy, 18 July
Winter School: Finding Your Voice, 19 July
Winter School: Writing for Performance, 20 July
Winter School: Science Writing, 21 July
Winter School: Creativity 101, 22 July