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TAWNY TEACHES LIVE WORKSHOPS & CLASSES ABOUT WRITING, DIY PUBLICITY, BOOK PROPOSALS, CARD DECKS, AND MORE.
Write Your Nonfiction Book Proposal: 6-Week Publishing Bootcamp
Tawny designed this generative course as the creativity boot camp she needed in the early stages of her publishing career. She approaches writing the same way she approaches business. She sees book proposals as business plans for your book and literary agents as the investors who believe in your vision.
Writers are Entrepreneurs: Negotiating, Outsourcing, Marketing, and More
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.
How to Write About Trauma, Addiction & Mental Health Without Oversharing
This 4-week generative workshop is for people who’ve been through some shit and are ready to put it on the page without trauma dumping.
Push Through Writer's Block
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.
Be Your Own Publicist How to Promote Your Writing
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.
Self-Promo Without the Cringe Platform, Pitching, and Press Releases 4-Week
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.
Just F*%#ing Write: Get Words Out of Your Head and Onto the Page
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.
Hot Takes: Write + Pitch Your Nuanced Ideas
Tawny’s teaching approach combines tangible tips, actionable advice, and real-life experience. 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.
Participants will emerge from this seminar with fresh ideas, insight into how polemic writing works, and clarity on the next step of their writing journey.
New Year, Newsletter
New Year, Newsletter is a two-hour seminar that provides an in-depth look at why prioritizing a newsletter is worth your time.