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Tattered Cover Bookstores: How to Get Your Book Published: The Crash CourseAugust 21st, 2010

How to Get Your Book Published: The Crash Course
A 3 Hour Workshop for Writers of All Levels

Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:00am – 12:00noon

Tattered Cover Bookstores
1628 16th Street
Denver, CO 80202
New Phone #: 303-436-1070
www.tatteredcover.com

The Tattered Cover Bookstore is pleased to present this special publishing workshop with award winning author and activist JLove Calderon.

Workshop Fee: $125

To Register Now, click on “Make a Payment” and follow the Paypal directions. Once you have paid the fee you will receive an email confirmation that you have been officially registered. For questions please email jlove@jlovecalderon.com

What You Get With This Workshop:

+ An overview on the Business of Publishing
+ How the Recession is Impacting Advances & Contracts
+ The “Gotta Get an Agent” Debate
+ The Importance of Platform
+ Book Proposal ‘Must Haves’
+ Perfecting Your Pitch
+ Getting Published: What’s Best For YOU? (Small, medium, or large publishing house? Self-publishing?)

The Creator and Facilitator:
JLove Calderon, a Denver native, creates and produces highly successful book publishing seminars for writers of all levels. She has authored four books: We Got Issues! A Young Woman’s Guide to an Empowered Life; That White Girl (based in Denver and optioned for film); Conscious Women Rock the Page! Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change (nominated for a NAACP Image Award); and Love, Race, and Liberation; ‘Til the White Day is Done (finalist in the social change category of the 2010 National Indie Excellence Awards). Her articles on hip-hop culture, race, and social justice have appeared in The New York Times, Self Magazine, The Source Magazine, among others, and she has also contributed to Who’s Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers (edited by Yvonne Bynoe).

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author, educator, producer

Author, educator, and producer of film and television, JLove Calderón has worked passionately on social justice, race and gender issues for the last 16 years. In settings that range from hip-hop ciphers to the college classroom, JLove is widely respected for her advocacy of “truth, love, and freedom” as guiding principles to inspire dialogue and action toward liberation for all people and the planet.

To download JLove’s Press Kit, click here.

Contact

For media and lecture management inquiries, contact
Drake R. Holliday or April R. Silver
AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc.
718.756.8501 • 718.756.8502 fax
pr@akilaworksongs.com
Facebook: AKILAWORKSONGS
Twitter: @akilaworksongs

For other business inquiries, contact
JLove Calderon
JLove@JLovecalderon.com
Facebook: facebook/jlovecalderon
Twitter: @jlovecalderon