Event:

First Friday Club with Joel Naoum

Friday 3 July 2020, 12:30-1:30pm

Online, via Zoom

First Friday Club, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, has moved online!

This July, we invite you join non-fiction category manager at Booktopia and director at Critical Mass Consulting, Joel Naoum, in conversation with one of our knowledgeable staff about how book sales are faring in these unusual times.

This event starts online at 12:30pm, via Zoom, and will run for 60 minutes. If there is time, we will take audience questions at the end. Free and open to members and non-members, but RSVPs are essential.

Registered attendees will receive a link to access this event online immediately prior to the event start time on Friday 3 July.

More from Writing NSW

Interested in self-publishing? Joel Naoum’s Online: Self-Publish Your Book course will take you step-by-step through the process and by the end of this course, you’ll have your book available for sale globally in ebook and print on demand formats.

Check out our full range of in-person writing courses in Sydney, our online writing courses and our feedback programs to see how we can help you on your writing journey. Find out about our grants and prizes, as well as writing groups across NSW, and sign up to our weekly newsletter for writing events, opportunities and giveaways.

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Speakers

Joel Naoum

Joel Naoum is a Sydney-based book publisher, bookseller, editor and consultant. He is currently the non-fiction category manager at Booktopia and runs Critical Mass, a publishing consultancy. Joel previously ran Pan Macmillan Australia’s digital-first imprint Momentum Books. He is the chair of the board of Writing NSW and in 2011 he completed the Unwin Trust […]

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