Polly Letofsky will talk on scene building, from 1-3pm, virtually on Zoom. This meeting will be hybrid. Location and zoom links are sent to subscribers.
After a bad experience with a publisher, Polly Letofsky decided there had to be a better path to publishing. In 2012 she started My Word Publishing – a new publishing model where authors keep 100% of their rights and royalties.
Now, ten years and 850 authors later, one of her key missions is still to save authors from bad decisions. And sometimes that’s a fulltime job.
In this month’s class Polly is going to talk to us about the latest scams flying around the publishing industry, how to check the validity of any offer that seems too good to be true, arm you with some publishing watchdog groups, and also discuss the difference between a “scam” and what’s just a bad choice.
About Polly
Polly Letofsky was 37 years old when she sold everything she owned, left her home in Colorado home and headed west – by foot – to become the first woman to walk around the world. She walked across four continents, twenty-two countries, and over 14-thousand miles.
Over her five years of walking and living one step out of her comfort zone every day, she developed a set of skills in goal setting, creating a clear vision, problem solving, adapting to culture, and team building. When she wrote her book about walking around the world and got ripped off in the publishing world, that launched her into taking those newly developed skills to start a new business — My Word Publishing, a publishing model that interrupted the established publishing world by helping authors professionally self-publish their books while maintaining 100% of all their rights. My Word Publishing has now grown into a publishing library of over 850 books, 500 national awards, seven publishing consultants, 35 editors, and representing authors from 14 countries.