Beyond the Rhetoric

As you may already know, I wrote a book with John Chow that was published back in May. Going through the writing and publishing process for Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul was certainly an enlightening experience, but I also realize that I have a lot more to learn. That’s partly why I’m making my way over to BookCamp Vancouver 2010 later this week.

I’m still relatively new to this whole camp-style unconference scene, but I’m willing to attend a few more and learn a lot along the way. It’s good that I don’t have the pressure of being a featured speaker this time around, unlike the Freelance Camp from a few months ago. This way, I can focus more on learning and participating in the various sessions, rather than trying to lead one.

With BookCamp, the focus is on the publishing business, but it comes from all kinds of different perspectives. There will be people there who work for book publishers. There will be authors. There will be marketing people. I fully expect a great mix of talent and this represents a great learning opportunity for everyone involved. I’m also glad to see that many of the sessions focus not only on traditional book publishing, but also on the digital publishing of e-books and other formats.

The majority of my income still comes from writing for various freelance writing clients, but I am certainly interested in shifting from services to products. Part of that has to do with passive income and personal projects, like this blog, but it also has to do with creating more books, e-books, and other products for sale in the future. BookCamp Vancouver should help me with that.

You can find out more about BookCamp Vancouver 2010 through the official wiki, which is also where you can find information about the individual sessions. It’s being hosted at the SFU Harbour Centre campus in Downtown Vancouver on Friday, October 1. You can follow along on Twitter by checking the hashtag #BCVAN10 too.

Tags: bookcamp, unconference, writing career

Filed under Freelance Writing.