|
Manzanita Writers Press Manzanita Writers Press is a literary press devoted to publishing and promoting authors in the California Gold Country region and beyond. |
|
Calaveras County Arts Council and Literary League Presents:
EBOOK FORMATTING AND PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
Sign up now for Lou Gonzalez’s Ebook publishing and manuscript formatting workshop on Saturday, July 14, 2012 in San Andreas. 9 AM – 3 PM.
Learn how to format your ebook or other epublication using Word. You may be able to upload your file that day if your manuscript is ready, or apply what you learn to your project at a later date.
Space is limited and reservations with payment are required to hold your spot. The workshop is filling fast, so don’t delay. Contact Linda Field at lindafield@sbcglobal.net or call (209) 736-0222. Mail your payment of the workshop fee, $95.00, to Manzanita Writers Press, PO Box 632, San Andreas, CA 95249 and reserve your spot.
The workshop includes hands-on, expert instruction, materials to take home with you, lunch, and morning and afternoon refreshments and beverages.
You will be learning how to format your book for ebook publication using Word. By the time you finish the workshop, you will be ready to publish your book or other project if you wish to do that on the spot, or you can wait until later. You will receive detailed instructions and will be able to actually go through the publishing process, if you’re ready. Or, you will learn the process for converting your manuscript into an ebook and do that at your leisure with Lou’s materials and expertise to help you. Workshop participants are encouraged to bring a laptop for hands-on work, but it’s not required. More information to come on that wonderful workshop. We expect the workshop to fill up fast.
Hosted by Manzanita Writers Press, an affiliate of the Calaveras County Arts Council, who is presenting the event with its Literary League.
Location: Calaveras County Arts Council Gallery, 22 Main St., San Andreas, CA 95249 – for more information on the workshop, contact mrosemanza@jps.net
Lou Gonzalez
Lou Gonzalez writes technical books and novels. To publish his technical book, Creating Your eBook, he combined his engineering and programming degrees, and his experience in computer design, with his work in converting over 15 manuscripts into Kindle and Nook eBooks. In addition, Lou teaches creative writing, lectures about novel structure and eBooks, and for the last nine years has been the moderator for a Barnes & Noble writing workshop.
For his Eric Sandoval mystery novels, he draws on his ethnic background in the Mexican-American community in Los Angeles to present the challenges and opportunities that America offers to all its citizens. His novels center on accomplishment, danger, drug lords, and political corruption in Los Angeles. He’s traveled and worked in Europe, the Near East, and throughout South America.
Lou brings to his writing a rich technical work experience in design of spy satellites and software programming. In addition to working for major aerospace and software companies, he founded his own software company. His company, which he managed for more than fifteen years, designed software for the Fortune 500 companies and for the US and NATO military.
Past Events
Gold Rush Writers Conference – May 4-6, 2012
An Event Sponsored by the Calaveras County Arts Council – Literary League
Sign up at Goldrushwriters.com
Friday: Evening picnic at Antoinette’s lovely home outdoors by the pool at 5 PM, and then a free public poetry reading at the Mokelumne Hill library at 7:30 P.M.
Saturday: Writers workshops starting at 9 AM — festivities through the evening, include dinner and speaker, plus evening open reading.
Sunday: Workshop in the morning and early afternoon plus speaker session.
Where
Leger Hotel, Mokelumne Hill, CA
Learn More
Coordinator/founder Antoinette May
Phone: (209) 286-1320
Poetry Writing and Small Press Literary Workshop
An Event Sponsored by the Calaveras County Arts Council – Literary League
Celebrate National Poetry Month and Hear Some Poetry!
Monika Rose (Manzanita Writers Press editor) and Ron Pickup (GlenHill Publications) will speak about small press literary publishing
It’s FREE after paying entry to the Haggin Museum
Read the Full Press Release
When
April 7, Saturday
Where
Haggin Museum in Stockton, CA
Learn More
Call 209-754-0577 or email mrosemanza@jps.net
San Joaquin Writers Workshop — April 14, 2012
Maxine Hong Kingston will hold a workshop in the morning, and Amy Smith (Writers Unlimited member and UOP English instructor and author) will be leading a workshop on creative nonfiction in the afternoon. Indigo Moor will be hosting a fiction workshop, too.
The cost is $35.00 per person for the day’s events and workshops, which includes lunch! Tickets will be on sale at the Delta College box office.
Read the Full Press Release
Where
Delta College, Stockton, CA
9:00 AM — 4:00 PM
