Nov 11-15, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV
Our 2024
Partner
Audio & Narration
Partner
Our 2024 Partner
WITH THE HELP OF OUR 2024 SPONSORS
WITH THE HELP OF OUR 2024 SPONSORS
Our 2024 Partner
OTHER SPONSORS
120
VENDORS
120
LIVE SESSIONS
RECORDINGS INCLUDED SO NO FOMO
2000
AUTHORS
120
VENDORS
Thousands
OF READERS
2000
AUTHORS
Author Nation empowers authors to build a prosperous future in the golden age of content creation. Join us in nurturing relationships with industry experts, peers, and readers over a five-day event of education and networking.
The theme for 2024 is "Unite Your Nation."
Build your technology inventory and establish a robust support network of mentors, peers, and readers to level up your author career.
To enhance your Author Nation experience, we've developed specific tracks for you to follow. These tracks are designed to optimize your time and financial investment, guiding you to the next level with a curated approach to navigating all that Author Nation has to offer.
Our tracks cover various domains, including Craft, Marketing, Advertising, Business & Finance, Transmedia, Production & Workflow, and Mindset, Wellness, & Productivity.
Led by industry experts and accomplished authors, our lectures, workshops, and discussions are tailored to help you build a comprehensive system that supports your best life through writing.
THE THEME FOR 2024 IS
Unite Your Nation
Build your technology inventory and establish a robust support network of mentors, peers, and readers to level up your author career.
To enhance your Author Nation experience, we've developed specific tracks for you to follow. These tracks are designed to optimize your time and financial investment, guiding you to the next level with a curated approach to navigating all that Author Nation has to offer.
Our tracks cover various domains, including Craft, Marketing, Advertising, Business & Finance, Transmedia, Production & Workflow, and Mindset, Wellness, & Productivity.
Led by industry experts and accomplished authors, our lectures, workshops, and discussions are tailored to help you build a comprehensive system that supports your best life through writing.
Itinerary
Get ready to visit Author Nation and spend five value-packed days with your people.
Included in your ticket is access to five days of the show.
DAY 1
INDUSTRY EXPO
We hit the ground running on Monday by connecting you with industry experts and suppliers, showcasing the latest and greatest products and services tailored to the author community.
Additionally, we offer learning labs run by suppliers to provide hands-on experience and practical applications of products to enhance your productivity.
DAY 2-4
AUTHOR EDUCATION
Tuesday through Thursday will be filled with:
We are planning over 120 sessions across three tracks:
And seven domains:
DAY 4 & 5
RAVE
The fun isn’t over yet!
We close our author event and start our reader event with producer, director, and writer, Kevin Smith.
Thursday:
Evening reception
Friday:
Author Signings
Author Genre Panels
SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED EARLY 2024!
Itinerary
Get ready to visit Author Nation and spend five value-packed days with your people.
DAY 1
INDUSTRY EXPO
We hit the ground running on Monday by connecting you with industry experts and suppliers, showcasing the latest and greatest products and services tailored to the author community.
Additionally, we offer learning labs run by suppliers to provide hands-on experience and practical applications of products to enhance your productivity.
DAY 2-4
AUTHOR EDUCATION
Tuesday through Thursday will be filled with:
We are planning over 120 sessions across three tracks:
And seven domains:
DAY 4 & 5
RAVE
The fun isn’t over yet!
We close our author event and start our reader event with producer, director, and writer, Kevin Smith.
Thursday:
Evening reception
Friday:
Author Signings
Author Genre Panels
Your Live Ticket also Gets You...
PROFESSIONAL HEADSHOT
Schedule a photo of you for marketing and book covers.
Included Sponsored by:
TUESDAY NIGHT
VARIETY SHOW
Join us after the show at our first ever Bookish Variety Show.
Sponsored by:
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
AUTHOR NATION STORY WARS FINAL
Our regional Story Wars events culminate in a grand final for all the marbles in the galaxy. Be there to see who walks away the story wars champion.
THURSDAY NIGHT
A NIGHT WITH KEVIN SMITH
Join us for a night of laughs with Indie OG Kevin Smith.
Sponsored by:
Our Exhibitors
4 PRICING OFFERS
Early Ticket Pricing Ends In
Your "Visa" will serve as your entry ticket for the event. All visas include access to all recorded videos and our Virtual After Party.
Industry Visa
FOR INDUSTRY GUESTS AND VENDORS
$499.99 $399.99
This pass is for vendors and strategic partners in the publishing industry.
It provides access to:
Industry Expo
Author Summit
Daily opening and closing sessions in the show room Tuesday though Thursday
Admission to RAVE as an Author
Digital Visa
General Visa
FOR AUTHORS ATTENDING THE SHOW
$499.99 $399.99
This ticket is for authors or pre-published authors looking to attend the largest multi-genre author education and networking event in the United States.
It provides access to:
Industry Expo
Author Summit
Admission to RAVE as an Author
Digital Visa
Digital Visa
VIRTUAL OPTION
$249.99 $149.99
This ticket is for those not able to attend live. The Digital Visa gives you access to videos of all recorded sessions and the Virtual After Party. This is not a virtual stream but access to recorded content.
It provides access to:
All recorded videos. These will be released after the show.
The Virtual After Party. The scheduled Q&A sessions will give everyone a chance to ask the presenters questions.
Special Visa
Guaranteed Showroom
PREMIUM Seating
(limited quantity):
$599.99 $499.99
This ticket is for authors or pre-published authors and has all the features of our General Visa with the additional guarantee of a seat in the first ten rows for "An Evening with Kevin Smith."
It provides access to:
Industry Expo
Author Summit
Preferred seats in the first ten rows for Thursday Keynote session
Admission to RAVE as an Author
Digital Visa
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Author Nation helps authors manifest a prosperous future in the golden age of content creation. We do this by nurturing relationships between authors, industry experts, and readers.
We are the largest author education event in the United States and focus on independent entrepreneurs looking to build their best lives through telling stories and getting paid by the people they delight.
Our three-year mission is to scale our RAVE reader event into the largest multi-genre reader experience in the world, giving you one place to get the best author education and find your reader tribe.
Author Nation™ has no affiliation with the group.
We only assumed liability for the contracts held by Craig Martelle Inc. for the space, room block, and food & beverage spend with Caesars Resorts.
We do not endorse or oppose the philosophy and teaching of that group or any other group seeking to help authors.
This was a tough choice. Customer satisfaction is a key focus of Author Nation.
Here is what was involved in our decision:
1. We mainly rely on a volunteer support team in AV, which has consistently expressed that livestreaming is the most troublesome part of their job. We must listen to and respect them if we want them to keep doing this work.
2. We believe that by separating the live and remote experiences and handling the video component at a later time with virtual support, we can deliver a better overall experience for everyone.
3. Our programming in 2024 will be structured differently, with tracks and domains of knowledge to address the overwhelming feedback we received about what guests sought from the event. We are concerned about trying to do both things in the first year and feel our resources are better focused on getting the programming right. Remote attendees will still get that benefit through the videos. It just won’t be live.
4. While we had a vocal group expressing the need, no one volunteered to contribute a solution or help.
Yes.
Our Industry Expo on Monday will add tech-related sessions that day, run into the evening, and change the layout.
We will also expand the variety of vendors to expose authors to other powerful tools and services used by other content creators.
Do you have enough readers?
We have a plan to solve that problem.
Differentiated seating is a crucial component of our strategy to create a reader community you can connect with to find your tribe.
The only real impact will be on the Thursday night keynote. This session is a transition event to which readers will be invited, and we officially kick off RAVE.
We have decided to block off seating in the main showroom and provide special seating closer to the stage. This decision reduces overall show revenue but allows us to identify readers who have a high willingness to pay.
In doing so, we will create a multi-day event to market along with Las Vegas as a destination to attract people who enjoy reading books. We will have speakers who embody the indie spirit and have massive reach in pop culture and entertainment.
We also want to give authors attending RAVE the ability to design an experience for their readers where they can invite fans to sit with them and watch Kevin Smith. That could be a dream come true for one of your super fans.
Giving authors with larger audiences this ability will incentivize them to come to the show and bring their best fans. The keynote and other premier reader events will attract the best readers for you to expose your books to during RAVE.
Absolutely!
We have brought in a dedicated showrunner for this event and will be expanding its size and scope.
You must be an Author Nation General Passport, Industry Passport, or Special Visa holder to show at RAVE.
When purchasing your ticket, highlight your interest in having a table at RAVE by ticking “I’m interested in having a table.” We will curate the mix of authors based on genre and experience with live events.
Hold our beer…
We are reinvesting our profits into scaling up the reader event. Author Nation has a three-year mission to create the world’s largest multi-genre reader event where authors can connect with their readers in person.
There is no better connection than a face-to-face one where you and your reader can build a lifetime bond. It gives you control and certainty over future revenues.
We will run coordinated campaigns with our RAVE authors to draw the best readers and listeners from the western states to the easily accessible city of Las Vegas.
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We will provide a full refund until June 30th, 2024.
To request your refund, email hello@authorventuresllc.com.
You can transfer tickets until October 30th, 2024, for an $18 transfer fee.
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