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Endorsements:
“Mary DeMuth held 100 writers spellbound! Her presentation was energetic, interesting, humorous and contained very practical information. It was outstanding, and we begged her to present the next year.”
–Glynnis Whitwer, Editor, P31 Woman
“Mary is very real. A good and entertaining speaker, valuable importation, appropriate
for this gathering. Can we have her come back next year? She felt like one of us! Authentic, wise, insightful.”
–Indiana woman
Major Writing Tracks:
- Your nonfiction book: from idea to proposal to published and beyond
- Growing a novel: from concept to story
- Deepen your prose: Writing from the inside out
- Marketer Extraordinaire: Marrying business and art
- What do you propose: Create attention-grabbing book proposals
- Your story: the inner workings of memoir
- Writing boot camp
Breakout Sessions:
- Unlocking the secrets of the query letter
- Nonfiction book proposals
- Fiction book proposals
- Pitfalls of fiction
- Point of view in fiction
- Finding time and energy to write
- Writing as a business
- Making money as a writer
- Newbie mistakes to avoid
- Epublishing the easy way
- POD publishing
- The journey of traditional publication
- Creating a well-trafficked blog
- Memoir writing
- Maximizing your website
- Creating and maintaining an email distribution list
- The i-Step method for creative nonfiction
- Deepen your fiction
Keynotes:
- Well writing vs. writing well
- The subversive act of writing the truth
- Inner Guts: the life of the succeeding writer
- Money matters: make a living as a writer
