Book Proposal Boot Camp
Non-Fiction Publishing Boot Camp: Proposals, Agents, and Query Letters

with Tawny Lara

Live Seminar Via Zoom Tuesday, October 14th, 2025

The class will meet weekly via Zoom on Tuesdays, 6:00PM - 8:00PM Eastern.

This publishing boot camp, limited to just 15 students, is designed for folks ready to prioritize writing a book proposal and finding a literary agent. 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 boot camp she needed in the early stages of her publishing career. Tawny also has a Business degree, and she's the co-founder of a drink brand. She approaches book proposals 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.

WHAT WRITERS CAN EXPECT:

In a virtual group setting, students meet with Tawny for two hours a week to finally dust off that old Google Doc and get to work. Each week is structured so students can focus on one aspect of a book proposal at a time rather than feeling overwhelmed by the whole thing at once. 

Each session ends with a 20-minute Q&A where students can ask about publishing, proposals, finding an agent, preorder campaigns, and book marketing.