Play your cards right: Top 11 Reasons to attend the 2015 Textbook & Academic Authoring Conference, June 19-20, 2015 in Las Vegas. A highly interactive event, the conference will be attended by authors and aspiring authors of textbooks, journal articles, and other academic works, as well as by academic publishing industry professionals from across the country.

1. TOP 11 REASONS TO
ATTEND THE
Playing Your Cards Right:
Textbook & Academic
Authoring in the Digital Age

2. You want to market your academic writing to get it
in front of the right people, but don’t know how or
what tools to use.
Session: Marketing? You're Kidding Me! I'm an Academic! Marketing that Matters
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3. You think educators and textbook authors should
participate in the future of digital textbooks, not
just technology, people or publishers.
Session: Innovations in Digital Book Technology: Brainstorming Textbook Applications
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4. Because you don’t want to look back and say, “If only
I knew then what I know now.”
Session: What Every Textbook Writer Should Know: Lessons Sweet and Bitter from the
Experiences of Two Veteran Authors
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5. You struggle with creative blocks, self-doubt, anxieties,
procrastination, or perfectionism that endlessly delay
your writing and ultimately hinders you from
becoming published.
Session: Writing Fearlessly: Coaching the Academic Author Within
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6. You need a jolt in your academic writing to improve
your efficiency and keep your writing habit from
growing stale.
Session: Jump-start Your Academic Writing: Simple Digital Tools to Grow and Maintain
Your Writing Habit
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7. You want to accomplish more while working
less—aka get published more often without going
completely insane!
Session: Beyond Just Team Building: Sailing Through Effective Collaboration
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8. You’re curious about open educational resources
and how a textbook author can flourish in this
type of model.
Session: How Textbook Authors Can Flourish in an Open Model
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9. You’re finally ready to jump into social media and
build your online presence to get noticed.
Session: Playing Your Social Media Cards Right: Practical, Effective, and Manageable Tips to Get
Noticed Online
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10. Because productivity is key to success and you want to
learn how to increase yours, including how to
implement a writing support system.
Sessions: Reaching Your Productivity Peak: Technology Maximizing Your Research and Publishing
| A Power-ful Model to Establish and Sustain Academic Writers' Productivity
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11. You think that reading and complying with publishers’
guidelines for a book proposal is all that it takes to
write a successful book proposal.
Session: Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal: More Than Meets the Eye
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12. You’re ready to move your writing project to completion,
gain insight into the publishing industry, and gain valuable
knowledge from academic and textbook writing experts
that you can put to use immediately and lead you down the
path to publishing.
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13. BONUS!
3 MORE REASONS TO
ATTEND:

14. You wouldn’t miss Robert Christopherson’s GeoPrimer
for anything. It never disappoints!
Session: GeoPrimer: Las Vegas, An Oasis Mirage in the 21st Century
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15. You already know the sessions will be amazing and
that you’ll walk away inspired, but you’re also excited
for food, gambling, shopping, and nightlife.
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16. #2015TAA is the only conference where you can mingle
with like minds that completely understand how
rewarding yet difficult and isolating writing can often
be.
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17. SEE YOU IN
LAS VEGAS!
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