May 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Reach your readers–keep your soul.
You have limited time, energy and $$$. What’s the best way to promote and publicize your work?
Authors often struggle to break through the noise in today’s crowded market. Publicity can be one of the most powerful tools in a writer’s career, yet many struggle with how to pitch themselves and their work effectively.
Five authors from our community will pitch their current projects including Big Five, small press, and self-published books, as well as Substack and writing courses, to top PR Professionals, and receive immediate live advice on what to do—advice we’ll all be able to use and consider for our own projects!
Join Allison K Williams (SEVEN DRAFTS), Sharla Yates (CRAFT TALKS) and special guests Tonya Todd, Joylynn Ross and Jen Greybeal for this lively, funny hour of frank talk about author platform, audience engagement, and just plain getting people to read your book.
Register at the link to get the Zoom link the day before the event and a reminder one hour before, and join us live to network and ask your questions! Or, subscribe on YouTube @TheWritersBridge to catch the replay.
- An unprecedented opportunity to learn from two highly respected PR professionals, Joylynn Ross and Jen Graybeal.
- With only seven minutes to share their projects and receive feedback, authors will learn the importance of a concise pitch and receive direct, actionable advice to help them take their PR strategies to the next level.
- Learn the key areas authors should focus on when crafting a publicity campaign.
- Get insight into avoidable challenges that often stand in the way of successful media outreach.
Whether you’re in the beginning stages of your PR strategy or fine-tuning an existing campaign, get expert advice to elevate YOUR public relations efforts and boost your visibility.
FREE, all welcome! Sign up to receive the Zoom link the day before.
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ABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS
Tonya Todd is an experienced moderator with a passion for empowering authors. Until October 2024, she could boast being the most publicized author without a book. Now,
she shares her publications at workshops and conferences across the country, while mentoring other writers, teaching literary citizenship, and promoting support of the arts.
Jen Graybeal (she/her) is dedicated to empowering authors through encouraging feedback, collaborative problem solving and gently-applied tough love. In ten years of
coaching, workshops, and editing projects, she has helped over a thousand authors create stories they are proud of and businesses that align with their individual vision of success.
Jen is a Certified Creativity Coach with a degree in English, an ever-expanding TBR pile, and a furball assistant that is usually on her lap. Visit her website for client testimonials at www.jengraybeal.com or follow her on Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, and TikTok:@JenTheEditor.
Joylynn Ross is an award-winning author, editor, literary consultant, publishing coach, literary educator, and expert publicist with years of experience working with authors to
boost their visibility and grow their brands. She has more than 40 publications in print and has sold over three-quarters of a million books. Her published works include the
“New Day Divas” series, If I Ruled the World, An All Night Man and The Root of all Evil. Her children’s book, The Secret Olivia Told Me, received an American Library Association Coretta Scott King Honor.
Allison K Williams has edited and coached authors to publishing deals with Penguin Random House, Knopf, Mantle, St. Martin’s Press, and numerous small presses. An expert in author marketing and community building, her platform includes the Brevity Blog (80k+ followers), Instagram (10k+), a mailing list (12k+), and Facebook (5k+), with publications in the New York Times and appearances on NPR and CBC. Her book, Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book, sold on proposal. She leads the Rebirth Your Book writing retreats and co-hosts The Writers Bridge.
Sharla Yates is the author of the poetry chapbook What I Would Say if We Were to Drown Tonight, published by Stranded Oak Press (2017). She hosts a webinar series, CRAFT TALKS for writers on writing, and co-hosts The Writers Bridge with Allison K Williams. Her nonfiction essay, “Address” was a finalist for the 2015 Columbia Journal writing contest and the 2016 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the former Director of Education at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Questions? Please email Allison@Idowords.net
