Nov 11-15, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV
Our 2024
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Our 2024 Partner
Our 2024 Partner
WITH THE HELP OF OUR 2024 SPONSORS
WITH THE HELP OF OUR 2024 SPONSORS...
120
VENDORS
120
LIVE SESSIONS
RECORDINGS INCLUDED SO NO FOMO
2000
AUTHORS
Who's speaking at Author Nation?
Click the relevant domain below to check out the current lineup.
*Please note that our current lineup represents only about a third of the total sessions we will have. We will continue to add new speakers as they are confirmed.
LESLYE PENELOPE
Worldbuilding for Any Genre
Track: All
The Second Draft & Beyond: Strategies for Revising Your Novel
Track: Pre-Published Explorers, Emerging Storytellers
KERRIE FLANAGAN
10 Surefire Ways to Strengthen your Writing
Track: Pre-Published Explorers, Emerging Storytellers
DEREK MURPHY
Authentic Creativity as a Response to Artificial Intelligence
Track: Emerging Storytellers, Inquisitive Voyagers
KENYC MCCOY
Inclusivity in Storytelling
Track : Pre-Published Explorers, Emerging Storytellers
JENNIFER HILT
Tropes: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Track: All
SACHA BLACK
The Art of Trope Marketing
Track: All
HOLLY DARLING
How To Get Emails Into Inboxes (And Avoid The Spam Folder)
Track: All
Onboarding With Emails (For Direct Sellers Only)
Track: Emerging Storytellers, Inquisitive Voyagers
MARK LEFEBVRE
Working With Bookstores and Libraries
Track: Emerging Storytellers, Inquisitive Voyagers
CELESTE BARCLAY
Understanding the Consumer Journey
Track: All
STUART GRANT
Get Your Author Website Working for You
Track: All
DANA CLAIRE
Behind the Text: SMS Marketing to Readers
Track: Emerging Storytellers, Inquisitive Voyagers
MANDIE STEVENS
Engage, Connect, Thrive: Elevate Your Author Presence on Facebook
Track: Pre-Published Explorers, Emerging Storytellers
JOHNNY B. TRUANT
The Orienteering Approach to Finding Your 1000 True Fans
Track: Emerging Storytellers, Inquisitive Voyagers
MELISA TORRES
Marketing for Middle Grade
Track: Pre-Published Explorers, Emerging Storytellers
ERIN WRIGHT
Why Wide?
Track: All
JULIE BROAD
Beyond Sales: Leveraging Free Books for Business Growth and Brand Expansion
Track: All
RUSSELL NOHELTY
How to Run a Successful Viral Giveaway to Continuously Build Your Audience
Track: Emerging Storytellers, Inquisitive Voyagers
LJ DIKS
Financial Planning for Authors
Track: All
JOE PULIZZI
How to Create a Multi-Million Dollar Business from Your Business Book
Track: Inquisitive Voyagers
TONYA PRICE
Growing Your Writing Business: How to Create and Use a Writer’s Business Plan that Works for You
Track: All
JAMES PEET
Scam and Fraud Avoidance for New (And Veteran) Authors
Track: All
EMILIA ROSE
Serials and Serialization
Track: All
STEFF GREEN
Don’t Quit Before the Miracle (And Other Things I’ve Learned About Self-Publishing)
Track: All
JOHNNY B. TRUANT
The Artisan Author: Low-Stress, High-Quality, Fan-Focused Approach to Escaping the Publishing Rat Race
Track: All
SARRA CANNON
The Path Back to Joy
Track: All
Game Board Strategy For Authors
Track: All
E. PRYBYLSKI
Accommodations for Authors: Identifying Your Needs
Track: All
LAURA BURTON
Dream Big: How to Set Goals and Get What You Want
Track: All
MONICA LEONELLE
Passion + Money: Strategies to Write What You Love and Make the Numbers Make Sense
Track: All
CARISSA ANDREWS
Dreams, Believe, Achieve: Unleashing Manifestation On Your Author Career
Track: All
MARGARET C. BEELER
To Be a Young Author
Track: Pre-Published Explorers
DAVID VIERGUTZ
Fit to Write: Maintaining Your Body So You Can Keep Writing
Track: All
CRAIG MARTELLE
Getting Out of Your Own Way
Track: Pre-Published Explorers, Emerging Storytellers
MARIE WHITTAKER
Sustainable Project Management for Creatives
Track: All
MATTY DALRYMPLE
Be Your Own Gatekeeper: Indie Publishing Your Short Fiction
Track: All
Building Your Platform through Podcasting as a Host or Guest
Track: All
WILLOW WINTERS
Sustainable Revenue Through Increased Revenue Streams
Track: Inquisitive Voyagers
EMILIA ROSE
Six Figure Subscriptions
Track: Inquisitive Voyagers
ELIZABETH ANN WEST
Intro to Creative Writing With AI
Track: All
Next Level Brainstorming with AI
Track: All
DANICA FAVORITE
Intro to Creative Writing With AI
Track: All
KEVIN MCLAUGHLIN
Building Sustainable Productivity
Track: All
ERIN WRIGHT
How to Advertise Your Wide Books without Spending a Dime on Cost-Per-Click Ads!
Track: All
JANET MARGOT
Beginning Amazon Ads
Track: Emerging Storytellers
Targeting 101
Track: Emerging Storytellers, Inquisitive Voyagers
Amazon Ads Optimization
Track: Inquisitive Voyagers
120
VENDORS
120
LIVE SESSIONS
RECORDINGS INCLUDED SO NO FOMO
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
Who's speaking at Author Nation?
Click the relevant domain below to check out the current lineup.
*Please note that our current lineup represents only about a third of the total sessions we will have. We will continue to add new speakers as they are confirmed.
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...
ALL WEEK
PROFESSIONAL HEADSHOT
Book a session with our professional photographer to capture your perfect author photo.
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
AN EVENING 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
Daily opening and closing sessions in the show room Tuesday though Thursday
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.
If you need seating accommodations, reach out to us via email. We will provide a way for you to be in the front regardless of the ticket type you purchased.
Readers & Authors Vegas Event (RAVE) is our reader community event that runs Thursday evening through Friday evening. It features a book fair, signing, panels, and get-togethers for authors and readers to interact.
If you would like a table at RAVE, you must be a live ticket holder and indicate your interest in a table. When purchasing your ticket, highlight your interest in having a table at RAVE by ticking “I’m interested in having a table.”
Please note that a table is not guaranteed. Due to space limitations, we will curate a diverse mix of authors by genre and experience.
If you are invited to do so, booking a full table will cost $175 and a half table will cost $125. Both will include lunch.
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.
Yes, below is the link. Please include your name in the "Suggested By" field.
Click here to suggest a speaker.
Please note that we have closed the form for new submissions for our 2024 show.
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.
If you enter our conference giveaway and win, but have already purchased a ticket when winners are drawn in late August/early September we WILL refund you.
If you are selected to be a speaker but have already purchased a ticket, we will also refund you.
Great question!
If you are learning about Author Nation and looking for some guidance on what it offers, we have compiled a list of contact points and their benefits.
We do not offer a Facebook group. We have our own privately managed group on our own domain. We use social media to raise awareness, but Author Nation leads by example in creating a platform removed from intermediaries.
Here are some options for you to learn more and decide how you want to interact with our community...
Get on the mailing list: Click here to join; Cost: Free
This is the best way for us to keep you updated on the show with any breaking news.
Join the community: Click here to join; Cost: Free
This is our online community, and all are welcome to be part of it, even if you never plan to attend our show.
Through this platform, we will provide free educational content and access to recordings and collateral material for ticket holders.
There are important reasons to join. Here, we will build our regional virtual community, a support network based on the Author Nation ethos of finding your best life through writing.
Join the general mailing list here if you want to see our general announcements.
Join the industry mailing list here for specific information for vendors and sponsorship opportunities. Industry guests get early access to tables and tickets.
Email suze@authorventuresllc.com to learn more about our sponsorship opportunities.
Please email us at hello@authorventuresllc.com with comments, questions, concerns, or just to say hi.
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