Ponte Vedra Writers’ topic is self-publishing

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Nearly 2 million books are self-published each year, and anyone can be a published author thanks to digital printing and do-it-yourself online services such as Kindle Direct Publishing.

But there’s a lot to learn before jumping into those waters, and Brad Kuhn will teach local writers about “Self-Publishing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” Kuhn delivers his message at the Florida Writers Association Ponte Vedra Writers meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library.

Kuhn will provide real-world insights from more than three decades of experience as a writer, publisher and publicist. He is an award-winning author, reporter, author coach and multi-media producer based in Jacksonville. He has been a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, The Orlando Sentinel and Orlando Business Journal. He is a founding director of the Jack Kerouac Writers In Residence Project of Orlando. He and his wife, writer Darlyn Finch Kuhn, run the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival, now in its ninth year. 

Kuhn has co-written three books and ghostwritten several more. His most recent offering is “Dirty Work: The Untold Story of My Secret Mission to Steal Back TWA Flight 847 From Hezbollah,” an Amazon nonfiction bestseller co-written with the late TWA Capt. Richard Vaux.

The Ponte Vedra Writers group is part of the Florida Writers Association, a statewide, nonprofit organization with nearly 1,500 members dedicated to the support of both aspiring and published writers in any genre.

The Jan. 22 meeting is free and open to members and nonmembers alike.

For information on FWA, go to floridawriters.org.