Indie Authors Converge on Orlando for IBF 2015

Orlando, FL — From July 31 until August 2, 2015 central Florida Independent authors will descend on Orlando’s Caribe Royale Hotel for Indie BookFest 2015.

The Indie BookFest event is designed to showcase self-published and independent authors to readers and consumers, while providing opportunities to network with artists, cover designers, editors, online bloggers and other professionals from the independent publishing community.

The number of independent authors and other professionals who are unaffiliated with traditional publishing companies and venues has been on the rise in recent years due in no small part to the shift in costs associated with self-publishing via the internet.  Services like KDP, an Amazon direct to e-book platform, Draft2Digital, another e-book platform and Amazon’s CreateSpace™ Publishing, a print on demand service, have introduced relatively simple, user friendly and inexpensive ways for writers and other artists to bring their books, music and even movies directly to consumer audiences worldwide.

“Technology in this case is setting artists free from the constraints of the past,” said author G.W.Pomichter.  “Print on Demand and e-book formats have opened the market and given every writer access to the printing presses that used to be controlled by a handful of business interests.  It is a re-inventing of the printing press, and it really is quite extraordinary.”

Indie BookFest is an opportunity for these entrepreneurs to showcase their work and to meet with potential readers as well as each other to celebrate what some like Pomichter say is a revolution in the artistic community.

Traditional publishing paths have customarily been difficult to break into and have been largely governed by very strict business performance standards, giving stockholders and professional business interests a greater influence over artistic projects.  But in the Internet age, and with greater technological access to print on demand services, new sales channels and distribution models, and even social media platforms to build and grow audiences, independent artists from film makers to authors are seeing a renaissance of opportunity.

Indie Bookfest is both a celebration of this phenomenon and an exercise in marketing these artists to the general public.

“It is a very exciting time to be an indie author,” said BookFest attendee and Author of the Submit to Darkness erotic thriller series, AJ Spencer.  “It is a time when artists can control their own work.  It is a time when a writer has to be more.  We have to be part creator and part marketer and part entrepreneur.”

Spencer will be joined by more than 80 other independent authors from throughout Florida and around the country, including many first time authors.  The gathering will feature Keynote Speaker and best selling independent author, Jana Oliver, and a number of panel discussions for both writers and readers. 

One of the most exciting portions of the 3-day event is a FREE author book signing event hosted from 2:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday August 1, 2015. 

For information: visit the website: indiebookfestcon.com