Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis Writing is no longer a lucrative career. The most recent study by the Authors Guild, a professional organization for book writers, shows that it may not even be a livable career. In this webinar, we will discuss the theme of NAIWE membership: developing multiple streams of income. And we will discuss how to leverage your book to succeed in a career in writing!

Guest: NAIWE’s Kindle Expert Brian Schwartz Having a book in print and e-book provides different marketing opportunities. In this webinar, you will come to realize that the e-book format lends itself to more marketing options, including keeping the book in print. Brian will share pricing and marketing tips for your e-book and the top three places to publish it.

Guest: NAIWE’s Tax Expert Carol Topp The publishing industry is filled with technology. While some may be well known, there are always more techniques the users of technology can learn. Blog writers may write as if new readers have not seen the rest of their site. Web writers know that their readers read differently than the readers of books. But the best educated are the most successful in any field!

Guest: NAIWE’s Marketing Expert Diana Ennen Diana will share how to get the most out of each article you write by using bits of it on your website and on each social media platform and by inserting keywords in your article and even in the title. Having a plan helps a pro reach goals. She will share how to create a plan, what should be in it, and also how to build your following and establish trust and credibility.

NAIWE's Conference Speaker Dick Margulis Self-publishing authors have become one of the biggest, and often best, potential clients for freelancers, especially editors, proofreaders, indexers, illustrators, photographers, and book designers. Working with these clients often means shepherding them through the publishing process. In this webinar, discover how to manage this potentially profitable side of freelancing.

Guest: NAIWE’s Fiction Expert Karin Beery What’s the difference between a freelance editor and an acquisitions editor? Do you need an agent? If you do, how do you find one? How do you decide between traditional publishing, self-publishing, and hybrid publishing? In this webinar, we’ll take the confusion out of editors, agents, and publishers and help you figure out which options will work for your publishing goals.

Guest: NAIWE’s Business of Writing Expert Laura Pennington Briggs Interested in publishing for nonfiction? Getting an agent may help you receive the best offers and consideration from publishers. Discover tips for writing a book proposal, how to create an agent shortlist, how to note and keep track of agent requests, what to ask when meeting with agents, and more. Get prepared to start your query prep process!

Guest: NAIWE’s Author Representation Expert Leslie Truex Interested in working with an agent to market your book to traditional publishers? An agent actually performs more services too! In addition to revisions, edits, and grammar checks, an agent submits a book to one imprint at a time and keeps track of the process! An agent discusses contracts with you, is a mediator for you, and is current on publishing news!

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne Join us for this round-up of current issues surrounding artificial intelligence and the world of creative content. We’ll review pending cases, as well as what the Copyright Office, publishers, creators, and some major associations representing creators and publishers have to say about generative AI. We’ll explore some language you might see in contracts.

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permission Expert MJ Courchesne As a writer, you know the value of your work, and have a keen interest in protecting it. You also may know that your work is copyrighted as soon as you put thoughts into a fixed medium, so why should you bother registering your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office? This webinar will review the basics of copyright law in the United States.

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne Learn about what the newly established Copyright Claims Board means for individual creators in this town hall style webinar. We’ll also talk about the implications of a shared copyright between two or more authors.

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne Learn the ins and outs of what publishers require when they ask you to "clear" permission for third-party materials you are incorporating into your work. What things do you need to have in a permission agreement, how do you go about getting permission anyway, and how long will this process take?

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright & Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne This webinar will feature some sample agreements and sources for templates that the writer may find useful. What does a work-for-hire look like? What should you expect in a trade publishing contract? How common are NDAs in the publishing world? How do you format a simple permission request? Who can you reach out to for help when reviewing a contract?

Guest: NAIWE’s Faith-Based Writing Expert Mary DeMuth You’re excited about a topic, so excited that you’ve written a book about that topic, but how do you get that agent to sign on to your project? Writing a book proposal is very different than writing the manuscript of your book, and it can be intimidating. The writer needs to market the book, knowing the book in a different manner, within the publishing industry.

Guest: NAIWE’s Well-Fed Expert Peter Bowerman Commercial writing may sound intimidating, but it is simply freelance writing for companies. Because some companies are unwilling to hire full-time writers, they often have needs for freelance writers. Commercial writing allows freelance writers to offer a fresh perspective while letting them learn how to help others and set themselves apart as experts.

Guest: NAIWE’s Well-Fed Expert Peter Bowerman Self-publishing allows the author to retain control over the book, and this form of publishing is so much easier than it used to be. Even so, for the author who has never self-published before, this can seem like a daunting process. While writing is creative, publishing is a business and marketing is required to help the book succeed.