Be Your Own Publicist
How to Promote Your Writing

with Tawny Lara

Live Seminar Via Zoom Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Led by Tawny Lara, author of Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze and The Sobriety Deck: Practical Practices for a Booze-Free Lifestyle, co-host of the Recovery Rocks podcast, and co-founder of the vinegar-based botanical beverage, (parentheses).

Read an Interview with Tawny about How to be Your Own Publicist.

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 Be Your Own Publicist class is more than PR 101; it's a chance to reframe self-promotion as a strategy to promote your hard work and expertise.

Participants will emerge from this seminar with a comprehensive understanding of what exactly a publicist does and some DIY skills so attendees can approach publicity on their own.

Tawny Lara shares from personal experience as an author, co-founder of a drink brand, and tired Millennial with a business degree. She unpacks the promotional strategies she’s used in the past while sharing what worked, what didn’t, and what she’d do differently.