Announcing Two Author in Progress Events, a Final UnConference Flash Sale, and Mini Books
By Writer Unboxed | September 2, 2016 | Comments Off on Announcing Two Author in Progress Events, a Final UnConference Flash Sale, and Mini Books
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If you’re in the Los Angeles area, the Writer’s Digest Novel Writing Conference (October 28-30) will not only be a stellar event focused on craft, it will also be home to the Author in Progress Book Launch/cocktail party/signing/reading! Everyone who signs up for the conference will receive $25 off their early-bird ticket with the case-sensitive discount code WU25. (The discount will remain in play even after the early-bird price ends on 9/12, but registering early is your best bet for savings.) The schedule is packed with sessions on Craft, Storytelling, Character, and Genre Studies, and will feature classes and other unboxed events by some of your friends here at WU, including Porter Anderson, David Corbett, Margaret Dilloway, Catherine McKenzie, Barbara O’Neal, Therese Walsh, and Heather Webb. WU friend James Scott Bell, who wrote a wonderful foreword for Author in Progress, will also be presenting.
Additionally, the WU team will put on a panel on one of our favorite topics: Backstory!
UnConference Book Signing
On the heels of our west-coast party, we’ll head to the east coast for our second ever Writer Unboxed UnConference (November 7-11). Midweek, on November 9th at 7 p.m., we’ll have our open-to-the-public book signing at the Hawthorne Hotel. Signing copies of Author in Progress and their own books will be 20+ WU’ers, including Juliet Marillier, Barbara O’Neal, Kathryn Craft, Lisa Cron, Keith Cronin, Donald Maass, Anne Greenwood Brown, Brunonia Barry, Cathy Yardley, Liz Michalski, and Heather Webb. We’d love to see you there!
Final Call for UnCon: Last Three Tickets + Discount Code
Currently there are just three seats remaining for the UnConference, and because of a situation which makes it harder for these three last attendees to stay through for the Friday night party–there are no rooms left at the hotel on Friday night–we’re offering a discounted rate. What does that mean for you as a potential attendee? Will you miss any of the sessions? No, you should be able to attend all of the sessions, which wrap by 5:30 on Friday, however you might miss that evening’s party unless you find a bed elsewhere or like to travel late. Hence the discount.
If you’d like to reserve one of these last discounted tickets to UnCon, please visit our event page HERE and use the (case-sensitive) discount code last3. The event will be jam-packed with sessions on craft, activities and, of course, community (read more HERE). If you have any questions, please reach out to us directly at unconference@writerunboxed.com.
ARC Contest
Our contest for an Advance Reader Copy of Author in Progress is still underway and going well with over 3,800 entries. If you haven’t yet entered, remedy is HERE.
Preview Author in Progress via Mini Books
Finally, we wanted to let you know about five chapters from the Author in Progress book that are now available to purchase on their own as mini-book teasers of the larger work! Here they are:
From Part 2: WRITE:
Plot It or Pants It? How to Decide If Pantsing Is the Right Approach for Your Novel, by Ray Rhamey
From Part 4: IMPROVE:
Driven to Digital Distraction: Why You Need to Deal with the Publishing Business, by Porter Anderson
From Part 5: REWRITE:
Power Down: How (and Why) to Begin Reworking Your Novel Away from the Computer, by Kathleen McCleary
Leveling Up: How to Harness Revision to Make the Good Even Better, by Heather Webb
From Part 6: PERSEVERE:
Battling Doubt: How to Push Beyond Your Final Barriers and Finish Your Book, by John Vorhaus
And of course you can pre-order the complete book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Indiebound.
Write on!
Writer Unboxed began as a collaboration between Kathleen Bolton and Therese Walsh in 2006. Since then, the site has grown to include ~50 regular contributors and a variety of guests on rotation throughout a given year.
In 2016, the Writer Unboxed team published a book with Writer’s Digest / Random House. AUTHOR IN PROGRESS: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published is a comprehensive guide focused on helping writers over/around/through hurdles faced at every stage of the novel-writing process. It’s received some ***** reviews; we hope you’ll check it out.
If you’d like to be among the first to know about the next Writer Unboxed UnConference, which will likely tie-in with WU’s 20th Anniversary celebration, please sign up for our mailing list!
Write on!
