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Jul 28 - Aug 1, 2010 Mini-Workshop on The Top 3 Mistakes Authors Make When Promoting Online as part of the SavvyAuthors.com Summer Symposium. Authors think that promoting online is an overwhelming, time-consuming, and perhaps even pointless process. But actually, making friends online with your soon-to-be raving fans is one of the fastest ways to grow your readership. And if you just implement a few simple and sustainable strategies then you have more fun and ease promoting online and growing your potential readership, and increasing your sales.
- Discover time-saving online tips to work into your busy life
- Uncover how to avoid muddy messages
- Explore your unique style of interacting
In this interactive workshop with author, coach and publishing expert, Beth Barany, you will:
- Increase clarity and visibility to stand out in the crowd
- Clarify how to communicate directly to your readers
COST: FREE for ALL PREMIUM Members! (This event is restricted to PREMIUM MEMBERS ONLY, and is $30.) Sign up here.
August 5-27, 2010 Bring Magic into Your Fiction, an online class at the Low Country RWA chapter. Sign up online at the here.
Sign up by August 2, 2010.
Deep within dwell the tales of our childhood. These tales stretch their roots back through the mists of time into legends and myths of yore. Tap into your inner archetypal storyteller by learning how to use fairy tales, folktales, and other elements of fantasy to write fiction that is more powerful.
In this workshop, you will:
- Learn how to identify folktale and fairytale motifs, understand their applications and benefits, and how they can shape and improve your story
- Enhance the power of your fiction by mastering the use of your story’s magical objects
- Increase your tools of world building, including setting, history, “pantheon of power,” and more
- Be inspired and motivated to move your story forward
- Gain clarity in what’s already working well in your fiction
- Get structured exercises both about and on your writing
- Harness the subconscious power of oral story telling
August 9 through September 6, 2010 Social Networking for Unpublished and Published Authors A Month-long Online Writing Workshop through the Red River Romance Writers, an RWA Chapter. Check the Red River Romance Writers site for all the sign up details. Sign up by August 5, 2010.
You may think that social networking as an author is only for published authors. But actually authors at all stages of their career can use the tools of Twitter, Facebook and blogging (and more!)
If you only learn and implement a few important strategies, you will find that social networking can fit into your busy life, and help grow your career.
In this class, learn how to:
- Get clear on the purpose of your online presence
- Set up your user profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and Plaxo based on your purpose
- Build your base of friends/fans/followers
- Craft useful and effective content aligned with your purpose
- Use your social networking time effectively
- Create a plan for change, as your career changes
August 5, 2010, 7-9pm. Presenting at my Bestselling Authors Network on Sell Books With Social Networking: How to Be A Bestselling Author, in downtown Oakland, CA, at TechLiminal. RSVP for this free event at MEETUP.COM.
August 6, 2010, 7-9pm. Co-presenting at a Romance Authors Panel in Union City, Borders bookstore. RSVP on EventBrite.
August 10, 2010, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Pacific. "How to Make Twitter Work For Authors to Promote". Many writers think that interacting on Twitter to promote themselves as authors is a waste of time. But actually, Twitter is a writer's dream way to connect with fans, referral partners, and like-minded people. If you just know the three power tools of Twitter, then you can get the word out to more people about your book and make more sales. Curious? Then, check out Beth's new Online Chat with SavvyAuthors.com, a monthly workshop, "How to Make Twitter Work For Authors to Promote". A Bonus to SavvyAuthor Premium members.
With Online communication expert, and owner of iCrackerjack.com, Peter Ferguson, Beth will help you have more fun and ease promoting online while growing your potential readership, and increasing your sales.
To become a member of SavvyAuthors.com, sign up at www.savvyauthors.com.
August 17, 2010, 5:30-7:30pm. Get Published Now! meeting. Topic: "Don't Publish without Knowing This!" Guest Speaker: Writing and Publishing Coach: Michael Kaye. RSVP now at the Get Published Now! meetup.com event page.
Location: Oakland Public Library, Piedmont Ave. Branch Library, 160 41st St., Oakland, CA 94611. Cost: Complimentary!
August 21, 2010, 9am-6pm.
How to Be a Bestselling Author Workshop. RSVP now at the Bestselling Authors Network event page.
Authors and aspiring authors: Increase your visibility to increase your sales.
In this one-day event you will get hands-on tools to:
- Create a 90-day list building plan
- Use your strengths to network in any environment
- Gain confidence in the social media arena
- Establish an Powerful Online Presence
- Hone your clear and compelling message to answer “What do you write?”
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, East Bay. Cost: $497. Discount for members: $97. Sign up here.
September 2011, Speaking at Women's Fiction Festival at Matera, Italy.
Topics include Book Sales, Marketing and Promotions
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> PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
July 22, 2010. Featured Presenter with co-founder, Cheryl Liquori, at Blogify 101, WEBA Blogging Boot Camp.
Topic: "3 Keys to Blogging Success" Does blogging seem like an overwhelming chore, one more thing on your business to-do list? Actually, blogging is an easy way to promote your business online and establish expertise. By following the three keys to blogging success, you can measurably increase visibility, attract prospects into your sales funnel, and feel confident that your blog is working for your business. BONUS:
July 8, 2010. Get Published Before the Age of 18, Event at The Reading Bug, San Carlos Writing Coach Shu-Hsien Ho and Author Beth Barany presented the key steps that take aspiring writers from idea to publication. Location: The Reading Bug, 785 Laurel St., San Carlos, California.
June 25-26, 2010, Oakland, CA. Blogging for Cash and Clients. For Entrepreneurs and Service Professionals, in conjunction with the Breakfast Blogging Club. A power-packed, writing and marketing filled weekend workshop.
June 14 and 19, 2010Second year Presenting on the 12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure Workshop. And Authors Panel and Book Signing. San Mateo County Fair, Fine Arts Stage. Location: San Mateo, CA.
Saturday, June 5, 2010 3 Essential Tips to Building Your Author Platform Now: Yes, Unpublished Authors too!. A Presentation at the Black Diamonds chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Qin's Bistro, 5007 Lone Tree Way. Antioch, CA 94531.
February 23, 2010. Featured Presenter at the Goddess Collective, Oakland, CA. Topic: You are the Hero of Your Book Writing (and Entrepreneurial) Adventure!
December 14, 2009. Featured Presenter at Spoken Word event, Word Dancing, a monthly word and music series with open mic. It's A Grind Coffee House, San Francisco, CA. Organizer: Jeanne Powell.
September 26, 2009 Silicon Valley Romance Writer's of America chapter. Topic: Social Networking for Authors. Read the event summary here.
World's Hidden Masters. 3-day event, San Francisco, CA, August 2009. Topic: The 8 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Book.
San Mateo County Fair, Cultural Arts Stage, August 2009. Topic: Fairytales, Tarot and Brainstorming: How to Make Story Plotting Fun.
National Romance Writer's of America, Washington D.C., July 2009. Topic: The 12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure.
Oakland Public Library, Piedmont Ave,. Branch, April 2009. Topic: How to get Published Clinic.
San Francisco IABC Independent Communicators, San Francisco, CA, April 2009. Topic: An Independent Communicator's Playshop: Stage 1 of the Writer Entrepreneurs's Adventure: Start From Where You Are.
Black Diamond RWA Chapter, Antioch, CA, March 2009. Topic: Procrastination: The Mother All Evils.
Gilroy Public Library, Gilroy, CA, January 2009. Topic: Mythic Structure for Writers: Empower Your Heroic, Fantasy,and Adventure Fiction!.
Creativity Coaching Conference, Lake George, NY, October 2008. Topic: A Creative in Business: You are the Hero in this Creative Adventure.
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> PAST ONLINE and TELEPHONE WORKSHOPS
March 2, 2010. Guest Expert on Beryl Powell's StartUp Solution Inner Circle monthly teleseminar. Topic: Repurposing Your Marketing Content to Reach More Potential Customers and Make More Money.
Online Writing Workshop through the Low Country RWA Chapter, October 2009 Topic: Overcome Writer's Block
Presenter at the 2009 Muse Online Writer's Conference. Topic: 12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure.
Online Writing Workshop through the Low Country RWA Chapter, February 2009 Topic: Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction for Young Adults.
Online Class in partnership with The National Networker, November 2008 Topic: Make Money While You Sleep: How to Write E-Books in Four Weeks.
Presenter at the Muse Online Writer's Conference, October 2008 Topic: The 12 Stages of the Writer's Adventure.
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> MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Beth "applies some very interesting techniques to help her clients 'uncover the hidden diamond within.' " -- LitMinds.org, interviewing Beth about her work as a creativity coach.
Read her interview here.
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Contact Beth for interviews and as an on-air guest for call-in shows. She thrives in on-the-spot problem solving to your creativity and writing problems.
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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & WORKSHOPS
Beth travels to speaking engagements and workshops at conferences for 20-100+ people. Contact her for schedule availability. She will tailor to the needs of your writing group, writing association or business, and speaks on such topics:
"Call to Action: The Writer's Adventure"
"Creativity Techiques to Fill the Well"
Fairytales, Brainstorming Cards & Tarot: How to Plot Quickly and have Fun too! The handout is available.
Bring Magic into Your Fiction
Book Writing from A to Z for Fiction Writers: Character. Plot and Passion, the Winning Combination
How to Craft a Winning Query Letter
How to Win Over an Agent with Your Elevator Pitch
Prime the Mind: Develop a Writing Discipline
Navigate the Maze of Self-Publishing
So You Want to Write a Nonfiction Book! Now what?
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Contact Beth to speak at your event!
Featured Presentation: "3 Essential Tips to Building Your Author Platform Now: Yes, Unpublished Authors too!"
Download Beth's proposal here. (Four pages. Downloads as a PDF.)
In the San Francisco Bay Area? Then join Beth's Bestsellers Authors Network:
In the San Francisco Bay Area? Then join Beth's Get Published Now! Meetup:
“Beth's workshop was great. It helped me explore the ideas that had been floating around in my head for years. I learned things about myself and my writing skill.” -- Zana Lugo, Ameriprise
“This is to acknowledge Beth Barany and her workshop. As a writer and publisher of personal growth related human interest stories, and as one with over tweny years' experience attending and facilitating a multitude of personal growth workshops, seminars and conferences, I highly recommend Beth and this workshop. I found the experience to be informative, revealing and even playful. I would encourage anyone wishing to have accurate and meaningful insight on their "inner journey" to participate in this experience.”
-- Don Kirschner, Founding Director at the Society for Return to Honor
“If you're like me and you've always wanted to write a book, but didn't quite understand how, Beth's instruction is an excellent resource.”
-- David Kwong, Berkeley, CA
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