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Join us for our 7th Annual Event on April 23rd and 24th–This year’s event is focused on helping you Create Your Very Own Passionate Writing Life!
This event is completely free and even if you can’t attend, make sure you sign up for the free audio files and our downloadable 2008 TeleSummit Workbook.
To sign up for the NAWW 2008 Telesummit and get the FREE 2008 TeleSummit Workbook, please click here.
The NAWW 2008 Telesummit features:
Speaker: Sandy Grayson
Topic: Secrets to Getting Celebrity Endorsements–How To Get Fabulous Celebrity Endorsements for Your Business, Your Book and Your Products
What attendees will learn:
- How to become an expert at getting celebrity endorsements
- What endorsements can do for you
- Where the best places are to use celebrity endorsements
- Which celebrities have the most influence
- Who can use celebrity endorsements
- What the first thing is that you’ll tell people to do when they are getting ready to go get endorsements
- How you get endorsements from busy, busy people
Sandy Grayson is the author of the bestselling book, JOURNALUTION, she is inspiring people all over the world to transform their lives through the practice of journaling. She defines the word Journalution as the act of revealing your inner wisdom through writing. Sandy has addressed audiences for the National Association of Women Writers, Motorola, State Farm on board Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. She is one of the newest members of The Omega Institute’s esteemed faculty, teaching at the Rhinebeck & Costa Rica retreat centers. Sandy has received glowing endorsements from celebrity-authors such as Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Mark Victor Hansen, John Gray - and Louise Hay. Sandy has been featured in The Chicago Tribune, The Palm Beach Post, Body Soul Magazine, Woman’s Day, Balance Magazine and Ocean Drive Magazine.
Speaker: Sheila Bender
Topic: Hire Your Very Own Journal Keeper for Expanding Your Creative Voice
What attendees will learn:
- How to write the job description for your journal keeper
- Meet the job candidate… YOU
- Set up the “journal Keeper” work schedule
- How to do a performance review of the Journal Keeper position
About Sheila Bender
I have been writing seriously since 1975 and have taught writing since 1980. I published my first book about writing (Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down) in 1991 and have continued since then writing and publishing my poetry (Sustenance: New and Selected Poems), reviews (in Poet Lore, The Seattle Times and The World), and articles (Writer’s Digest Magazine and The Writer), as well as producing and publishing many more books on writing, the newest entitled Writing and Publishing Personal Essays.
My essays and poems appear online and in numerous North American literary magazines and anthologies including Poetry Northwest, The Seattle Review, The Bellingham Review, Tiny Lights, and Tidepools among others. My newest book, Perfect Phrases for College Application Essays, is forthcoming March 2008 from McGraw-Hill.
Speaker: Larina Kase
Topic: Standing Ovation–How to Own the Platform
What attendees will learn:
Learn how to instantly command the room
- Discover the mistakes that most speakers make that you can avoid
- Find out the top ways to connect with and engage your audience
- Learn cutting edge results on how to beat public speakig anxiety
Larina Kase Psy.D., MBA is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Confident Speaker (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She helps entrepreneurs overcome their marketing fears and confidently share their ideas and build their businesses. Find her featured in media such as SELF, Inc., and Entrepreneur, and visit http://www.pascoaching.com for more resources.
Speaker: Renée L. Duff, Esq.
Topic: Copyright And Your Creativity
What attendees will learn:
- What is “copyright” and why it is so important to writers
- The dispelling of copyright myths, i.e. “Poor Man’s Copyright”
- Trademark issues for writers
- Why every writer needs domain names
- Beyond the Book… ways to capitalize on your intellectual property
As an attorney who has spent almost two decades managing intellectual property assets from business, law firm and in-house perspectives, Ms. Duff’s diverse abilities give her an uncommon combination of experience and insight that makes her a unique resource on issues related to both the commercial and legal sides of intellectual property. She brings a unique creative, entrepreneurial spirit and valued diverse background to legal counseling and representation.
Ms. Duff currently runs her own private practice and is Of Counsel Senior Attorney with Lackenbach Siegel, LLP in Scarsdale, New York. Ms. Duff’s private practice caters to small and medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs and other creative types that have intellectual property assets as the main focus of their business.
Speaker: Linda Joy Myers
Topic: Creating Your Memoir
Owner and founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers. Author of Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story and Don’t Call Me Mother.
Create Your Memoir
More than “just the facts, Ma’am”—a memoir is a highly creative work of art that invites us to enter realms of consciousness and spirituality as we bring the past to life. The art of memoir asks us to draw upon imagination, dreams, and memories to paint word pictures and create worlds that no longer exist. Let your creativity flower—begin your memoir today!
What attendees will learn:
- Tap into your creative wealth
- Mine your memories for stories
- Plan your memoir around turning points
- Use your imagination to create powerful scenes
- Structure your memoir with your timeline
- Write your memoir in 20 minutes a day
Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., is the owner and founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers. Author of the prize-winning Don’t Call Me Mother & Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story, Dr. Myers has been a therapist in Berkeley for over twenty-eight years. She combines her background in art, clinical work, and writing (Dr. Myers received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College) to offer unique memoir workshops and trainings in the Bay Area and nationally.
Speaker: Marcia Yudkin
Topic: Creativity on Call–Become a More Productive Writer
What attendees will learn:
- Five elements of discipline and five elements of inspiration that contribute to having creativity on call
- Why prolific writing doesn’t require fast writing, so you can be a productive tortoise, if you’re not cut out to be a speedy rabbit
- Why sheer discipline doesn’t produce good writing, the kind you’re proud to share and whose results gratify everyone involved
- How small chunks of time - even waiting for the microwave oven to ping - can move you forward on your writing
- Like to run? Sleep? Cook? Play music? When and how not working contributes to productive writing
About Master Marketer Marcia Yudkin
From the launch of her writing career in the New York Times in 1981 to today’s recognition as one of the world’s top creative marketing experts, Marcia Yudkin has excelled at turning words and ideas into money.
Her 11 books include 6 Steps to Free Publicity, Persuading on Paper, Web Site Marketing Makeover, Internet Marketing for Less than $500/Year and Freelance Writing for Magazines & Newspapers, a Book of the Month Club selection. Her articles have appeared in hundreds of magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, TWA Ambassador, USAir Magazine and Business 2.0. She has been featured in Success Magazine, Entrepreneur, Business96, Business99, Home Office Computing, Working Woman, Women in Business, dozens of newspapers throughout the world and four times in the Sunday Boston Globe.
To sign up for the NAWW 2008 Telesummit and get the FREE 2008 TeleSummit Workbook, please click here.
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