​Be an attendee, get an ALL SESSIONS PASS

The BookCAMP 2025 event is a three day event (May 2nd-4th) where independent authors,

publishers, industry experts gather to learn, trade success stories and network.

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BookCAMP 2025 will help indie authors & publishers market, publicize, meet with other publishers & authors, make literary agents available, audiobooks and its impact on print books, direct on how to get your books into Costco, Target, and other big box stores, among a myriad of topics.

 

We also recognize our worldwide authors of our award programs.  This year we will host attendees for our Independent Press Award / NYC Big Book Award awards ceremony & dinner at BookCAMP 2025 on May 3, 2025. The BookCAMP 2025 grew out of a quarterly magazine BookCAMP, which addresses authors and publishers' business challenges of book publishing.  Schedule subject to change.

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Sign up today!

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Friday, May 2nd, Focus on Sales, Marketing, Publicity 

1pm Welcome

1:10pm Get the Most Out of the Show

1:20pm Bestseller Marketing Tips & Strategies 

1:45pm Poetry Power, how its craft relates to other genres /

               Book Series building

2:15pm Coffee Break 

2:30pm Publicity / Marketing / Book Business  

             Challenges of Small Press / Hybrid Publishing 

             Author becomes Publisher; Publisher becomes Author, the "must-haves" and "must-dos"

3:10pm Branding and Outreach: The Secret Life of A Writer / Radio, Podcast, Video, email

3:40pm How To Develop An Affordable Book Marketing Plan  

3:45pm Streaming Channels Opportunities & National Media

4:00pm Meet the Experts

5:00pm "40 Under Forty in Publishing" ceremony

5:30pm Wine Tasting (Sponsored by Ridge Wineries)

6:00pm Networking event

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Saturday,  May 3rd

Focus on Audio, libraries, literary agents

11:30am Press Releases, local and national tactics

Noon: Lunch 

12:30pm Keynote Speaker / Welcome/ Planned topic 

1:00pm GAB TALKS Interviews on the Upper Terrace

1:15pm Independent Bookstores 

1:15pm Book Discoverability: Agents & Publishers / Distribution

Amazon Secrets to Success

2:00pm Social Media, how an indie author went from one to 90,000 Instagram 

followers

2:30pm Audiobooks / Podcasting with Becky Parker Geist

Learn how public libraries discover and acquire books,

and how individual authors can engage and partner with them. 

3:10pm Coffee Break

3:30pm Meet your fellow author  

3:30pm Literary Agents / Meet with Literary Agent

3:45pm Meet the Experts 

4:00 Should and how do I get an Artificial Intelligence Assistant? - Claude AI

4:30pm Keynote Speaker: Past presidential candidate on Artificial Intelligence 

6:00pm Awards Photos & GAB TALKS Interviews on the Upper Terrace 

7:00pm Awards Dinner & Ceremony in the Garden State Ballroom

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Sunday, May 4th, Focus on logistics, selling to Costco, Target,

Big Box stores, etc.

9:30am BookCAMP Group Breakfast 

9:45am Keynote Speaker 

10:00am The #1 Thing You Need to Feel Like a Book Rockstar /

The Unconventional Marketing Mindset Shift

10:45am Nontraditional Bookselling / Big Box Stores 

11:45am Closing remarks

12pm Raffle and door prizes for attendees

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Register now!

Contact Ted Olczak at Ted@GabbyBookAwards.com or (718) 938-4590.

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Book Camp 2025 is independent authors, publishers and industry providers meeting, networking,

learning and more. Strategies on marketing to Independent Bookstores, Librarians, Special Sales

Venues or get a Literary Agent for your first or next book. Learn benefits of starting a writers circle.

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Gain knowledge, find resources, discuss book strategies and solutions, and more.

The event is packed with informative and instructive sessions that is guaranteed to

help your publishing process along! Plus, networking opportunities!!​​​