The next event to grow your speaker business is all around the written word... your next book!
Let’s go straight to one of the most successful Australian authors we know to hear the tips, truths and tactics behind publishing your own books.
10 years…
3 continents…
42 cookbooks…
9 million copies sold…
With a book in 1 of every 7 Australian homes!
Had me at hello?
Hear the insights, insider tips and hacks from our very own Queenslander - Kim McCosker, a self-published author, who even takes her own photos from her iPhone.
Kim’s book sales now span across 3 continents with 3 TV Series: 4 Ingredients – The Easiest Cooking Show Ever, current running on Foxtel, Lifestyle Channel and BiNGE.
Wanting more?
Our own Catherine Molloy will have a short share on being an author of Hachette, the 2nd largest publisher in the world after Puffin Books. Cath with the international rights being brought in UK from Orion books (who produced the Harry Potter series) made her book - The Million Dollar Handshake - 7 Dials business book of the year.
What, wait, there is even more?
We will have a networking session to share, swap or snatch!
If you are a published author - bring your books!
If you haven’t written a book yet, then you will love this interactive event to meet authors and come home with some great BOOKS to add to your truths, tips and tactics to get you started.
Get ready for lots of giveaways and drumrolls as names are drawn out of a hat on the night for a select few authors to join our panel session and let us know their why, gems, and pitfalls of their publishing and marketing journey.
SO come prepared for a night to fill your cup up, collect some books, meet the authors, and learn from the greatest self-book publisher in Australia Kim McCosker.
About Kim McCosker
Kim McCosker is the founder of 4 Ingredients, now a formidable Australian publishing house. 4 Ingredients owns the rights to all 41 cookbooks, tens of thousands of recipes, images, videos, manuscripts and databases with a reach of millions. It is the publisher of cookbooks, eBooks, and Apps and the developer of a variety of kitchenware. It has grown to become one of the most recognised and trusted food brands in Australia; with a reported 1 in seven homes owning a 4 Ingredients cookbook.
In 2017, 4 Ingredients was the winner of the prestigious Best Selling Category at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards in China. This award offered the opportunity in 2018 for Kim to cook onstage, underneath the Eiffel Tower, at the World Gourmand Cookbook Summit in Paris. In 2019 Kim produced a 6 part TV-Show now airing on Foxtel Lifestyle Channel and in 2022 was awarded the ORIAs (Online Retail Industry Awards) National People’s Choice Award.
With global sales nearing 9 million copies, three TV series for Foxtel, more cookbooks in the works and a national Ambassador for Coeliac Australia, Kim and 4 Ingredients really do own the easy, everyday, cooking space in Australia.
Committed to community, Kim sits on the Sunshine Coast Major Events Board, the Sunshine Coast Council’s Biosphere Community Reference Group, was awarded the Sunshine Coast’s Most Outstanding Business Woman of the Year, 2011 and Griffith University’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. Kim is a huge supporter and ongoing fundraiser for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, having raised over half a million dollars so far.
But of all, Kim’s proudest achievements are her family, a wonderful husband and three beautiful boys who are the lights of her life and her biggest supporters.
Program
5.00pm Dinner (at your own cost) at reserved PSA tables in The Kitchen on the ground floor. If you would like to be drinking something other than water for the event you are welcome to purchase it at one of the ground floor bars, including at The Kitchen when you dine, and taking it with you to the room.
6.15pm Registration opens
6.23pm Doors opens
6.30pm Meeting begins
9.00pm Meeting closes. Move to another area within KWSC for drinks and networking
Parking - is available at no cost
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