- $145
Working with Indie Authors
- Course
Find clients. Understand their needs. Work better together.
You'll come out of this workshop-style course with an understanding of what indie authors need from you, some new ideas for business practices and marketing, and a bunch of templates you can use to make your work even more efficient.
We'll work together so you can create positive ongoing working relationships, use your time efficiently, and be an asset to the authors who hire you.
(Oh, and there will be dinosaurs, of course 🦖🦕)
This course is self-paced, which means you get access right away and can do the work when you want.
A needs-based scholarship of $45-off is available for editors from marginalized groups who cannot afford the full price. A limited number of scholarships are released in October and April.
Contents
Welcome to the Course
Module 1: Understand Your Market
Module 2: Connect with Authors
Course Bonus
Module 3: Make the Most of Queries
Module 4: When the Author Becomes a Client
Course Wrap-Up
Hi, I’m Tanya 👋🏻
I’m a book editor, translator, educator, and literary omnivore. I've been in publishing for over twenty years and love this industry to bits.
I work with authors and publishers, editing and translating SFF, horror, contemporary realism, memoir, interactive fiction, and graphic novels.
I support editors and writers one on one, and teach in a bunch of places, including the Editorial Freelancers Association and Emerson College's MFA in Popular Fiction program.
It has been suggested that I read too much for my own good. This might be true.
What Others Have to Say
"Taking this course was one of the best things I’ve done for my editing career."
Alicia Chantal
"The class materials help you focus on your ideal customer base with actionable steps to making your services of value to such customers."
Miranda Darrow
"Working with Indie Authors is a great course!"
Genevieve Clovis
"Tanya is a natural teacher. Their content is excellent, but even more important is that they spend a lot of time thinking about how their audience will receive it."
Kristen Tate
Frequently Asked Questions
How long should I expect to spend on the course?
You can expect to spend one to two hours in each module to go through the materials and complete the assignments. (The third module tends to take most people a little more time than the others.)
What kind of indie authors will you be focusing on?
What if I want some one-on-one support during the course? Can I get that?
Absolutely! You can find a link in the course where you can purchase some one-on-one time with me.
I need accessibility accommodations. Can you help?
I've done my best to meet basic accessibility accommodations in this workshop. All the videos have captions and transcripts. All worksheets are available in both Word and PDF formats. Images have alt text where possible and descriptions where there isn't a place to enter alt text in the system.
If you need any additional accessibility accommodations, shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do to help.
What do you mean by "marginalized" in the scholarship?
People from marginalized groups and communities are people who have experienced systematic discrimination because of certain characteristics — such as their skin color, heritage, sexuality, gender, disability, or neurodivergence. This scholarship is intended to support people who have been historically excluded from the publishing industry.