Session Details: From Podcast to Print: Sneaking Into Publishing Through The Basement Window
WordCamp Orlando is offering a great set of sessions with perspectives from all around the country on things like communities, publishing and development. I’m really excited at the chance to showcase great things happening right here in Florida. J.C. Hutchins will be heading up from Fort Lauderdale to share how he basically took control of his own promotion and built awareness of his works through some very creative tactics. Here’s a bit about what you can expect at WordCamp this year…
In 2005, author J.C. Hutchins chased publishers the traditional way … and heard “no” at every turn. Convinced his novels were worthy of an audience, he took to the “podwaves” in 2006 and released his 7th Son thriller trilogy as free serialized podcast audiobooks. A thriving community soon formed around J.C. and his fiction. By 2007, St. Martin’s Press saw the grassroots platform J.C. had created, and offered to publish the series’ first novel, Descent, and a supernatural thriller, Personal Effects: Dark Art. Learn how J.C. used innovative “zero budget” marketing techniques, savvy cross-promotion and community-building to get his novels on bookshelves.
