September Events

It's September, and that means time for two big events at Chapters, our annual Local Authors' Event and Concordia's Plum Creek Children's Literacy Festival.

This year's event for local authors focuses on the business aspects of writing--working with publishers, creating e-books, marketing yourself and your book, self publishing, paying your taxes, and other related questions our area writers may bring to the discussion.  A panel of experts, many of whom are familiar faces from previous events at Chapters and at area writers' groups, will share their advice and answer questions from attendees.  We're hoping one of these experts, Dennis Kahl of the Seward County Extension Office, will also help stream the panel discussion live for those who are unable to attend the event in person.

So far, our panel includes:

• Dr. Connie Reimers-Hild, author, entrepreneur, and academic.  Dr. Reimers-Hild is an Extension Educator in Innovation at the UNL Kimmel Education and Research Center in Nebraska City.  Learn more about her at http://www.askdrconnie.com/
• James Hild, author and Facebook guru, who will share his social media expertise, providing useful information about promoting yourself and your work.
• Dennis Kahl, Seward County Extension agent, will also share his expertise in using facebook, twitter, YouTube, and other tools for marketing.  Dennis plans to stream the panel discussion live for those who are unable to attend in person.
• Victorine Lieske, New York Times Bestselling author, will talk about self publishing and her success selling e-book versions of her books. 
• James Reisdorff, owner of South Platte Publishing, will share his experience as a publisher and answer questions about the publisher-author relationship.
• Annette Snyder, author, will discuss her experience with Whiskey Creek Press and ways she markets herself and her books, both through the press and independently.
•  Laz Flores and Kathy Prevo, Revenue Educators with the Nebraska Department of Revenue, who will talk about taxes, specifically sales tax, and when and how to collect and report it.

Anyone who writes for adults or children, both published and aspiring, is invited to this event.  Friends and family are also welcome.  The event will be Sunday, September 23, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at Chapters Books & Gifts.  We hope to see you then!