22nd Annual FLATHEAD RIVER WRITERS’ CONFERENCE
This year's theme: “The New Marketplace”
Saturday and Sunday – October 6th – 7th, 2012
(Single-day attendance is acceptable)
At Flathead Valley Community College
Arts & Technology Building
Kalispell, Montana
Learn from Internationally renowned speakers and workshops
For more information contact:
The Authors of the Flathead
P.O. Box 7711
Kalispell, MT 59904-711
(406) 881-4066
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Mark Coker – Los Gatos, CA – is the founder of Smashwords (www.smashwords.com), an ebook publishing and distribution platform serving 40,000 independent authors and publishers around the world. Smashwords gained international attention for its simple but radical idea: provide a free service that enables any author anywhere to publish their ebook in seconds, and make it available for immediate sampling, sale and distribution to a worldwide audience via major online ebook retailers and mobile smart phone platforms. More than 100,000 titles have been released through Smashwords since its founding in 2008. In June, 2010, The Wall Street Journal named Mark one of the "Eight Stars of Self-Publishing." In March 2012, MediaBistro named Mark one of the "Five Ebook Experts to Watch."
