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Thank you for registering!

We look forward to seeing you on Zoom at the first Author Bootcamp meeting on Saturay, July 12. Plan to be online a few minutes early so that you can be ready for a 10:00 a.m. start.

Watch your email inbox for a Zoom link and reminders.
Communications will come from [email protected].


Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 15, 2025
Presented by the Kansas Authors Club, the Author Publishing Bootcamp is bound to provide some fruitful publishing information for every type of author. Whether you’re someone who has struggled to ink a deal with a small press or one of the Big 5, or if you’ve mustered enough courage and determination to try your hand at publishing your own book, this boot camp is for you.
 
Attendees are invited to attend four zoom sessions which will start with topics pre-recorded by our presenters and end with Q&A time with the presenters. All ticket holders will have access to the pre-recorded workshops and recordings of the Q&A portions of the sessions. Presentations will cover a wide-range of author publishing topics including all of the ins and outs related to preparing a manuscript publication, a breakdown of the design and print processes, marketing and branding post-publication, and much more.
 
Those presenting are considered experts in their respective fields as it relates to the world of publishing in today’s economic and technologically advanced climate. Even better, all panelists are Kansas Authors Club members you can trust and feel free to reach out to for more information.
Register Today
Saturdays
July 12 - August 2, 2025
10:00-11:30 a.m CST

4 Sessions

Attendance via Zoom

Session recordings will be made available to attendees.


Cost
  • $149 for the four sessions
  • Early bird discount ($125) for reservations made by June 15
  • 10% discount for current Kansas Authors Club members
  • Scholarships available on request (request during registration)

​​Program Lineup 
 
July 12, 2025 – 10 a.m.
Part I – Getting your manuscript ready for publication.
  1. Funding your book: what could it cost and creative ways to obtain funding
  2. Initial Marketing: identifying target audiences, writing a first book description, identifying genres, etc. 
  3. Preparing your manuscript: 1) Editing, revising, proofreading, polishing, types of edits (Beta reads, developmental, line, copy, proofreading) & tips. 2) Is your manuscript ready to submit? Format of manuscript, how to handle images. 
  4. Q&A with session presenters

July 19, 2025 – 10 a.m.
Part II – The Publishing Process 
  1. Types of publishers: Print-on-demand vs. traditional publishers; independent presses vs. small presses, other models and advantages of each
  2. Types of books and why publish one or all– Paperback, hardcover, e-book, audiobook. Platforms and software (KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, etc.) and local printers. Software - Word, Scrivener, Canva, etc.
  3. Interior and Exterior formatting
  4. Covers and Illustrations
  5. Q&A with session presenters 

July 26, 2025 – 10 a.m.
Part III –Copyright and Business Logistics (Necessary Things Every Author Needs to Know)
  1. Copyright law, including new issues with AI, ISBN numbers, Library of Congress Control Numbers, attributions, interviewing, estate planning for authors, and publishing contracts. 
  2. Formal business structures, accounting and paperwork, reporting and paying sales tax
  3. Q&A with session presenters

August 2, 2025 – 10 a.m.
Part IV – Marketing and Author Branding
  1. Branding 
  2. Marketing
  3. Q&A  with session presenters
  1. Preparing your manuscript: 1) Editing, revising, proofreading, polishing, types of edits (Beta reads, developmental, line, copy, proofreading) & tips. 2) Is your manuscript ready to submit? Format of manuscript, how to handle images. 
​Core Values:
 
Guidance
Providing mentorship, support, and resources to help participants learn and grow.
 
Empowerment
Instilling confidence through the supplication of various publishing tools and tricks of the trade.
 
Innovation
Encouraging creative thinking, experimentation, and the adoption of new technologies, systems and approaches in the publishing industry.
 
Access
Making publishing education and resources accessible to a wide range of individuals, regardless of their background or circumstance.
The Kansas Authors Club Author Publishing Bootcamp is brought to you by the following member publishers.
Micki Carroll – Anamcara Press

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Gretchen Cassel Eick is a professor of history with a background in foreign and military policy. She wrote prize-winning nonfiction--Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954–1972 (University of Illinois Press, 2001/2007/2023)—which won three awards, is referenced on the wall of the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture, and resulted in a PBS documentary and a public park. Since retiring from full-time teaching in 2013, Eick has written six published novels—political/historical fiction, thrillers, and a family saga: The Set Up, 1984, Finding Duncan, Maybe Crossings, Dark Crossings, and Where is Ana Amara?, and Resistance! and the double biography/history They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans’ Story (University of Nevada Press, 2020).
 
Since 2014, she and Laura Tillem have edited prose manuscripts submitted to Blue Cedar Press and determine what the press will publish.
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Steve Fredrickson – Flint Hills Publishing
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Gina Laiso – Integrita Productions

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Thea Rademacher – Flint Hills Publishing

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Danielle Ramirez – Quiet Storm Services

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Ralvell Rogers II – Ambitious Stories 


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Tracy Million Simmons – Meadowlark Press  

Tracy Million Simmons had a twenty-year freelance career spanning work with entrepreneurs on newsletters, marketing materials, and website design, and published more than 500 articles and essays in niche to national publications. During that time she worked as an editor and on layout and design for assorted small press publishers and book packagers. She is currently the owner/publisher of Meadowlark Press, which celebrated ten years in business in 2024. Meadowlark has published more than 70 titles, including six Kansas Notables. Meadowlark books have been recognized by the High Plains Book Awards, Midwest Book Awards, and every category of Kansas Authors Club book awards.

Tracy is the author of Green Bike (with Kevin Rabas and Michael D. Graves), A Life in Progress and Other Short Stories, and 
Tiger Hunting, the 2013 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award winner from the Kansas Authors Club. Tracy currently serves as the Executive Director of the Kansas Authors Club.

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Anne Spry – Personal Chapters Publishing
Shortly after she retired as a newspaper publisher and editor, Anne Spry published her first print-on-demand book on a platform called Createspace. That was in 2013 and since then her company, Personal Chapters LLC, has helped clients with formatting, design and publishing of memoirs, children’s books and fiction novels. She has transferred her previous experience with formatting programs like InDesign into assisting clients with a fee-for-service business model and truly enjoys helping them “birth” their books in multiple versions and on several different platforms. 

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Barbara Waterman-Peters, (BFA, Washburn University, MFA, Kansas State University, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Washburn University) whose award-winning work is in museum, corporate and private collections, is represented by several galleries.  She has shown regionally, nationally and internationally in more than 350 solo, invitational and juried exhibitions. 

Waterman-Peters taught at Washburn and Kansas State Universities as well as for Lassen Community College in California.  She has received a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Achievement from the State of Kansas and the Monroe Award from the Washburn University Alumni Association. In 2011 she was awarded the ARTY for Distinguished Visual Artist from Arts Connect in Topeka. In 2023 she received the NOTO Master Artist Award and in 2025 a Certificate of Recognition from the Mayor of Topeka.

She is the co-founder of Pen & Brush Press with author Glendyn Buckley. She and Glendyn each received a Children’s Book Award from Kansas Authors Club for their work on their second book, Bird. Their first book, The Fish’s Wishes, was placed on the KNEA’s Recommended Reading List. Their third book is Ting & the Caterbury Tales. Recently, she worked with poet Dennis Etzel, Jr on the exhibit and illustrations for the Two Ponders: A Collaboration project.

​Working with other authors she has created cover art and illustrations for several books, including A Packrat Named Orange with author, Cathy Callen, which is also on the KNEA Recommended Reading List.
 
 

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