DATE  |  August 16th, 2025

TIME  |

• 12:00 pm, Networking
• 12:15 pm, Introductions & Incentives
• around 12:30-12:45 pm, Business meeting (we are not sure how long Intro & Incentives will take)
• 1:30 pm, Speaker (Zoom)

LOCATION  |  Meeting will be Hybrid via Zoom and Room 2A at the Hilliard Library, 4500 Hickory Chase Way, Hilliard, Ohio.

SPEAKER  | Nat Connors

TOPIC  | Book Marketing as Storytelling: Finding your Neighborhood.

Getting your story to readers starts with the cover and blurb—but authors often struggle to communicate their story elements to their audience. In this session, you’ll learn simple techniques for aligning your story, cover, and blurb, ensuring that readers clearly understand what you’re offering. We’ll use a series of examples from romance, mystery and fantasy, and this material is applicable across all genres.

Key Points:

– Align Your Story with Market Expectations: Learn how to create a cover and blurb that resonate with your target audience while highlighting what makes your book stand out.

– Market Awareness Tools: Discover a set of free resources that will help you stay attuned to trends and shifts in your genre and ‘neighborhood’ of the market.

– Ongoing Market Strategy: Understand how to evolve with your genre and adapt your marketing approach to suit your style and career stage.

Attending Our Hybrid Meeting

Presentation is free for members and prospective members who have not yet visited for two complimentary meetings.

For those members who cannot join us in person, join us via Zoom. The password will be posted in the Central Ohio Fiction Writers Google Group, and on the Central Ohio Fiction Writers Facebook page.

If you are not a COFW member and wish to attend this presentation via Zoom, email cofwpresident@gmail.com.

About Our Speaker

Nat is a small-town romantic comedy writer, (former) medical scientist and (mostly-former) dance teacher, and also makes the Kindletrends newsletter for genre fiction authors. Kindletrends started when Nat got fed up with trying to make sense of the Kindle Store, and wanted a no-nonsense summary of the most important information. He shared it with other authors, and now a bunch of people are getting value from it. Nat works at writing every day, and uses this information to help outline, write and publish – so it has to be focused, relevant and actionable.