Self-Publishing 101: Organizing the Manuscript

If you are like most creative writers, you have napkins, scratch paper, and Word documents filled with ideas and snippets of your writing. You may feel overwhelmed by this debris, but in the midst of it all is an amazing manuscript waiting to emerge. This class will prepare you to assess the rubble and identify what is worth saving or expanding and what should be tossed. It's time to organize your manuscript and transform those beastly napkins and notes into an electronic beauty!

Yolie Hernandez is the founder and owner of AZ Book Designer. Yolie has over fifteen years of experience in the publishing industry. In 2007 she was awarded a fellowship to attend the Stanford University Publishing Courses for Professionals. Since then, she has expanded her experience to the design of e-books and is an expert cover and book block designer. She is also the production director for the Hispanic Institute of Social Issues, where she oversees the production of their books, from editing to design to print. It is Yolie’s desire to empower current and future writers with self-publishing knowledge that will enable them to create and publish their own works.