Kudos to Beaver’s Pond Press today, for their wonderful Indie Author Summit 2012. This event blew me away, bringing together experts from every aspect of the publishing business–publicists, editors, social media gurus, speakers and of course, authors–to continue to foment the literary revolution already well under way. More and more authors are deciding to skip traditional publishing routes altogether, abandoning agents and query letters for independence and control over their work, and the attendees this morning couldn’t have been happier.

Still, it’s a wild, wild world out there at the moment, so giving us indie authors a morning of open access to folks like author Beth Bednar; Dara M. Beevas, VP of Beaver’s Pond Press and author of The Indie Author Revolution: An Insider’s Guide to Self-Publishing; digital content products expert Eric Christopher of Ugly Dog Digital; performance coach, Deirdre Van Nest; online media expert Jorgy Jorgensen of Agent41; PR expert Sara Lien (Lien Public Relations);and social media expert Tai Goodwin provided helpful answers and meaningful support for every step of the self-publishing journey.

Best of all, though? This event was fun and funny. “Write the damned book!” “Self-publishing is a contact sport!” “A quote from my aunt, Maya Angelou. Actually, she’s not, I just like to call her that.” I just love it when an event turns out to be not just as good as I hoped it might be, but even better. Woohoo! I’m feelin’ all Che Guevara now, and ready to revolt!