Silverwood
is a local publisher for indie, self-funding authors bringing together a range
of services that self-pub authors need – from editing to marketing. A really
interesting model. On a very rainy Saturday they gathered their authors
together and invited folk from Bristol to come and listen to what they do, meet
their authors and potentially make contacts for new authors.
It was an informative set of talks from a group of experts
that Silverwood gathered together – to kick off (and to me at the beginning of the writing proces the most immediately useful) Carolyn Lewis gave a quick talk on
writing – you can see her top 10 tips here.
Carolyn aims to give new writers confidence in their writing. Other topics
included book design, bookselling (by Foyles event supervisor Rob Norton), how
to use social media to promote yourself as an author, how to crowdfund your
book and making audio books.
Throughout there were short readings by Silverwood authors
which proved that self-publishing needn’t mean any compromises on quality.
It also served as a great mixer for the authors, some of whom had only ever met
virtually before, as well as gave some fans access to the authors.
Throughout the event the trees you can see in the above picture
attracted leaves, as attendees put their feedback onto them. A nice idea.
Overall it was a really interesting 3 or so hours and great
to see a whole range of successful self-published authors getting together
& hearing about their successes. Silverwood are obviously doing something
right. If you’re thinking of self-publishing I think it would be worth talking
to them. I certainly took away some top tips after the day.
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