Create + Pitch Your Own Card Deck is a seminar to help you develop your own card deck concept to enhance your personal brand, business, or create a resource for your community. 

This class helps writers, researchers, artists, and entrepreneurs learn how to promote their work without that cringey OMG-I-hate-self-promotion feeling. Whether you're looking for strategies on promoting an existing piece of work or creating a platform to prove that you're the expert on a subject, Be Your Own Publicist is the class for you.

This Book Proposal 101 class is more than just a seminar; it's an empowering journey that demystifies the book proposal process. Tailored for both nonfiction writers and nonfiction card deck creators, Tawny's class aims to make you view the proposal process as an empowering step rather than a daunting task.

This seminar offers a mix of writing prompts and practical advice to help writers write. Whether you’re a professional author or you’re still trying to convince yourself that you’re a “real writer,” this workshop is for you.

This book proposal boot camp, limited to just 15 students, is designed for folks ready to prioritize writing a book proposal in 6 weeks.

This course is designed for writers ready to prioritize their platform. Tawny Lara, Quirk and Penguin Random House author of Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze, and the forthcoming card deck, The Sobriety Deck, designed this intensive as the DIY PR Intensive she needed in the early stages of her publishing career. Tawny also has a Business degree, and she's the CMO of a drink brand. She approaches DIY PR the same way she approaches business. 

So many people are afraid of saying the wrong thing, so they don’t say anything at all. This silence often leads to further corruption. That's where this class comes in. Writing as Resistance helps you discover your voice as an empowered activist who can write and speak about complex subjects.

Considering hiring a Virtual Assistant but unsure where to begin? This workshop, led by an author/entrepreneur and her Virtual Assistant (VA) of 4+ years, takes you behind the scenes of the writer and assistant dynamic.

This class helps writers identify specific writing goals and provides actionable steps to actually accomplishing them in the new year. Whether you're working on something big, like a book proposal, or trying to find your voice as a writer, Set and Slay Your 2026 Writing Goals is the course for you. 

This seminar provides an in-depth examination of four hurdles that writers often put in their own way. Tawny’s experience as a journalist, author, teacher, and coach helped her identify four recurring blocks that writers often struggle to overcome.