Welcome Creative One — Thank you to all the new followers and all those that have been siting here by the fire with me for quite sometime. This place is a wall-less, international, learning space to nourish and speak to your inner spark. The more you share this podcast the more we can offer that warmth to others. Thank you for sharing, liking, subscribing and the support of your presence.🔥 Join us by the 🔥 Tend the Flame is a reader-supported publication. Thank you for becoming a free or paid subscriber. 🎧 This week’s podcast talks about: * Looking to Nature for Answers * What to do after you Look Up for inspiration * What are you standing on? * How bird talk is a metaphor and if it isn’t yours — how to listen for your own * Why we need a stronger relationship with ourselves (inscape) now more than ever 🐦⬛ If you are new, welcome. There are a weaving of stories here and previous episodes are referenced to help you light your own way. Episodes such as: Press the Button + Antidote for Exhaustion. 🌿 If you are ready to have a conversation where you invest in hearing yourself, and moving out of overwhelm into intention and inspired action, there are a few mentorship spaces open, 🔗 schedule a connection call here. What others have said: “You help me see the thing I have been tripping over. I get it.” - Deidre, massage therapist “I needed someone to give be back my words so I can write them. You have a gift.” Pamela, author One more announcement… Claudine Wolk and I are at it again. We can’t help it. When we get together, books bet written. We are being hosted in the Pennwriters Author series beginning this Tuesday at 7pm EST. It is a 4 part series. Come and join with other writers (birds of a feather) and take your idea from someday to the page! 🔗 📕 Join Us! Register today Who is this course for? Writers who are ready to start writing a book (fiction or non-fiction) that they intend to publish. As well as writers who want to learn the basics of book marketing to begin a successful career as a published author. What makes the course unique? Two instructors, who are both published authors and speakers, focus writers on both the writing process and book promotion to launch a successful writing career. Each session focuses on sparking creativity, building confidence, and providing the skills and knowledge needed to go from aspiring wordsmith to accomplished author. How does this help the aspiring author? Is this a write-my-book course? This course gives you, the new author, the lay of the land, to travel from concept to completion. This class guides your inspiration into action, creating: a writing intention, a story arc, and destination. We also remove the guesswork of entering the world of publishing, laying down the fundamental groundwork for you to be an inspired, educated, and informed writer. You get to decide where and how to take this forward on your writing journey. But now, you have a map. Session One: Getting Started: Share Book Ideas and Publishing Goals Published authors, Kate Brenton and Claudine Wolk, briefly share how they help writers publish and sell their books. In this interactive session, Kate moderates a segment for participants to share their book ideas and ways to refine their focus. In the second segment, Claudine introduces crucial beginner publishing terminology including publishing choices, book distribution, and publishing timeline. Session Two: Focus: Your Book Idea Takes Shape & How Book Promotion Works Kate runs an interactive session leveraging inspiration and intention to guide participants through uncovering and deciding on a primary focus as well as the accompanying arc for their book. Participants will come away from this session with a decision of what they want to write and an outline for future writing goals. Claudine educates participants on book marketing and promotion, spotlighting the essential questions: what it is; how it works to sell books in today’s world; why authors resist selling themselves; and how authors can overcome that resistance. Together, Kate and Claudine show aspiring writers that their intention and marketing message are intertwined, and that is a good thing. We end the session with a Q&A period. Session Three: Create Writing Plan – “The Author Agenda” and Book Marketing Fundamentals Kate runs a creative session on developing an Author’s Agenda — an action plan to complete a book. Participants build upon session one and two to start story mapping and choosing coherent themes to advance their book. Claudine runs an interactive session with handouts to help participants to identify the book marketing fundamentals for their book: message, audience and hook, plus an elevator pitch. We end the session with a Q&A period. Session Four: Fun, Interactive Evaluation and Sharing: Share the Elevator Pitch for Your Book, Resources and Next Steps In Session Four, Kate and Claudine summarize the three sessions and give participants an opportunity to share where they are in their writing process. We also give participants the opportunity to share the “elevator pitch” for their book, within the boundaries of positive and constructive communal support. Next steps and crucial book marketing and and publishing resources for additional learning are shared. We end the session with a Q&A period. Thanks for reading Tend the Flame! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit katebrenton.substack.com/subscribe
