Giving talks · Non-Fiction Author Lab

Giving talks

I have been busy offering to do a talk based on my Jane Austen book for any organisation that will have me - while I wait for US copyright. It’s now 14 weeks. An organisation with branches all over the country offered me a fee. I turned it down because i assumed it would be quite small. I have now Googled what the fee is and found that to me it’s quite generous. Some branches also pay travel. Going forward, I will accept the fee. The fee they offer is such that a £1 from Amazon per book no longer needs to interest me. I either sell books direct or not at all.

These branches plan their programme of talks a year in advance. My task now is to ensure that I can get myself invited back to do something else the following year.

The book has opened this door but is not even out yet. As I hoped, there is huge interest in anything to do with Jane Austen.

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