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Putting Yourself Out There and Building Your Audience
Join editor and platform coach Joey Garcia in conversation with Sue Campbell to discuss common fears and missteps in marketing and building your platform.
Joey Garcia is a book editor and author platform coach. She helps writers get known while they’re writing a book, so when it’s published, there’s an audience waiting to read it. Joey’s clients have been interviewed by, or have bylines in, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian magazine, Ms. magazine, CNN, and The Tamron Hall Show, among others. Joey is the author of When Your Heart Breaks, It’s Opening to Love and has been a featured Relationship Expert in HuffPost, USA Today, Deutsche Welle, KVIE public TV, Global Woman TV Sweden, Australia’s Ticker News and Slate’s Dear Prudence podcast. Her poetry, short stories, and essays have received awards and been published in Calyx, Mslexia, Hippocampus Creative Nonfiction magazine, Writer’s Digest, The Caribbean Writer, and Hypertext. In 2017, Joey established the first-ever literary fellowship in Belize, her birthplace. A professional speaker, Joey has wowed audiences in the U.S., Sweden, and Albania. www.joeygarcia.com
This Is the Year You'll Finish Your Book
Short on time? Ideas jostling for attention? Here's how to figure out a plan to finish your book (it's not "write every day"!) Discover your best way to work, how to narrow your focus, and how to decide what to let go.
The author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book, Allison K. Williams has edited and coached writers to deals with Big Five and independent presses, including NYT and USAToday bestsellers. She’s guided essayists to publication in the New Yorker, Time, the Guardian, the New York Times , McSweeney’s and TED Talks. As Social Media Editor for Brevity, she inspires thousands of writers with blogs on craft and the writing life.
Allison has written for NPR, CBC-Canada, the New York Times and McSweeney’s among others. A former circus performer, she has eaten fire in 29 countries. Learn more at https://www.allisonkwilliams.com