Next Up with Tawny
CLASSES, WORKSHOPS & MORE
Next Up with Tawny
CLASSES, WORKSHOPS & MORE
Join a Workshop
JOIN LIVE WORKSHOPS & CLASSES ABOUT SEX, SOBRIETY, CREATIVITY, AND BEING YOUR FULL DAMN SELF—NO SHAME, NO FLUFF, ALL HEART.
Create and Pitch Your Own Card Deck
Card decks are having a moment in publishing right now, ranging from self-help to recipes to dating advice and beyond.
Perhaps you've noticed card decks in your local bookstore or gift shop and thought about creating your own but don't know where to start. Or maybe you're looking for a creative way to show your expertise.
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.
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.
Set and Slay Your 2026 Writing Goals
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.
Book Proposal Boot Camp
This book proposal boot camp, limited to just 15 students, is designed for folks ready to prioritize writing a book proposal. 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 book proposal boot camp 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 book proposals the same way she approaches business. She sees book proposals as business and marketing plans for your book.