Survival While Writing 
Establishing and Nourishing Multiple Revenue Streams: 
Survival Tips for Entrepreneurs and Consultants  
Get your questions answered by someone who's been there! 
Leader: Edwin Black, award-winning author, journalist, and editor 
             (next release: his first novel, Format C: ) 
 
 

Would you like to become a published author but don't know how to get a publisher to accept your first book? What can you do to enhance the often very limited promotional efforts of publishers? How can you get the kind of publicity you need to actually sell your book? 

At this meeting you will learn how to recognize and employ business sense. Edwin Black will explore strategies for success including networking, banking, and organizational structure. And, perhaps most important of all, you will learn how to establish and nourish multiple revenue streams. 

Leader: Edwin Black, colorful and often controversial, is the author of the Macmillan bestseller, The Transfer Agreement, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for best nonfiction work of 1984. He also won the Computer Press Association award for editing the "Best New Computer Magazine" in 1992, OS/2 Professional. In that magazine, Black earned a reputation as a hardhitting journalist willing to take on his advertisers, including IBM. In addition, Black shared a Folio "Magazine Circulation/Direct Marketing Gold Award." 

Format C:, Edwin Black's first novel, is a technothriller that brings the Millennium Bug into the final apocalyptic battle for good and evil at Armageddon on December 31, 1999. In creating and writing this novel, Edwin called on his experiences as a technology writer, editor, foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and much more. You can read more about Format C: in Wayne Rash's January 25, 1999, "Insights & Incites" column in the online "InternetWeek." 

As a Chicago-, Jerusalem-, and Washington-based investigative journalist, Edwin Black has been nominated five times for the Pulitzer Prize and twice for the SDX (by the American Bar Association and Playboy). He has won the Smolar Award, the Rockower Award, and two Folios. His writings have appeared in many publications including The Washington Post, Playboy, and the Journal of the American Bar Association.  

He has appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show," the "CBS Morning News," and "America's Most Wanted." 

Edwin Black also writes on film music for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Film Score Monthly, Music for the Movies, Times Mirror's "Hollywood Online," "TraxZone," "Movie Music UK," and "Movie Wave." He moderates movie.music on BIX. 

Edwin Black may be reached at eblack@featuregroup.com. 
 
Agenda 
1:00 pm   Short Presentation by Edwin Black 
1:20 pm   Extended Q&A/Discussion Session with Edwin Black 

Questions for Edwin Black--Please send questions and issues you'd like Edwin to discuss in an e-mail message to bconn@cpcug.org by Thursday, February 25, if at all possible, so that we'll be able to plan and organize this meeting (just a little) and have appropriate reference information available. Have no questions? Come and participate in the discussion. 

2:40 pm   Door prize drawing-- 
               "Age of Empires: An Epic Game of Empire-Building and Conquest!" 
Later       Informal late lunch/socializing/networking with Edwin Black 
               at Tel Aviv Cafe, 4869 Cordell Ave., Bethesda, MD  

Saturday, February 27, 1999, 1:00 pm (Fourth Saturday) 
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 
Lipsett Amphitheater 
Clinical Center (Building 10) 
9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland (map) 

During NIH Construction: It may be easiest to enter the NIH campus from Wisconsin Avenue. Turn west onto South Drive (about 1 mile south of the Beltway, south of Wilson Drive). Pass Center Drive and turn right onto Memorial Drive and then left into the entrance to the garage within Building 10, the Clinical Center. 

Free Parking: Because of the extensive construction underway at NIH, be sure to arrive early. You may park in the inside parking garage of Building 10. Enter from Memorial Drive. Tell the parking attendant you are attending a CPCUG event (there will be no charge). 

Metro--Medical Center Stop on the Red Line (about 4 blocks across the NIH campus) 

Free (but door prizes are for CPCUG members only) 

Next Month:  
March 20, 1999, 1:00-4:00 pm, special 3-hour seminar: 
Linux, Frank Hum