Career Planning

So I’m preparing for my first conference workshop:

CAREER PLANNING AFTER THE FIRST SALE

Which will be given at the Spacecoast Authors of Romance STAR conference in Cocoa Beach, Florida from February 3-5, 2006.

There is going to be some seriously world-rocking stuff in this workship, I’m telling you. You will leave that conference room with your hair blown back. We’re talking mind-expanding, life-changing, atom-colliding landslides of information. You will never look at the publishing industry the same way. You will never look in the mirror the same way. This workshop will put hair on your chest (if you like that kind of thing), get rid of wrinkles, and make you look ten pounds lighter.

At least, that’s what it’s like in my head.

But seriously folks, I’m going to cover it all. And you don’t need to have sold yet for this workshop to be worthwhile for you. And even if you’ve sold ten books, this workshop will be worthwhile to you. This is about having a fluid and flexible career plan. How planning doesn’t mean set in stone, and how to be smart about your career. Career planning isn’t something you do once. It’s something you do every time. Every time you make a sale, you’re being propelled in a certain way, but the landscape changes, and new trajectories open up to you. This is about how to evaluate and choose amongst your options.

Like I said, atom-colliding.

And yes, because this is the inevitable question, what do I know about successful career planning if I’ve made only one sale? I’ll tell you — at the workshop. Can’t let out all my cool secrets now, otherwise, what would I have to say in Cocoa Beach? I am living this workshop right now, even as we speak.

And if I haven’t convinced you to come party down in the Florida February yet, I will add that i’m giving away a really cool prize at the workshop. REALLY COOL.