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Faber Academy to teach self-publishing

09.11.11 | Charlotte Williams

Faber Academy has launched a three-day self-publishing course, with Faber Academy director Jason Cooper saying that it does not represent a conflict of interests for the publisher.

The course, "Bring Your Book to Market", will run in February 2012. Author, journalist and social media champion Ben Johncock and writer, blogger and digital self-publishing exponent Catherine Ryan Howard will be the course tutors, with Faber publishing director Hannah Griffiths also giving a one-hour session entitled "Rules for Authors".

Cooper said: "One of the things with the Faber Academy is that we've always tried to maintain a slightly separate mission for it [from Faber], in that it is all about helping writers reach their full potential, we've never seen it as a vehicle for publication.

"There is a huge amount of interest in self-publishing at the moment, and we would want to make the most of that, and help them realise their ambition if that is their path . . . I think as a publisher, if we are worried about self-publishing, the solution is to publish people. I think we can see that there are people in different situations and with different ambitions who will go down different routes."

He added that the course was a "bit of an experiment", and it was dependent on the interest the course attracted as to whether it would run again.

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