Hello Reader,
Kayleigh here, I hope you had a great Easter / Oestre / Passover / Chocofest.
This is an email to let you know that Orna Ross's next live creative planning workshop is set to take place tomorrow, Thursday 4th April at 5pm (UTC).
These workshops are run through Patreon and are Orna's way of offering more personal attention than she can offer through ALLi.
Across the quarter to come, the planning workshops' focus is on email marketing.
Q2 2024 Go Creative! Planning Workshops: Optimise Your Email Energy
Orna says: "I see the email ecosystem around your books as an electrical network, carrying the energy of your author values to your readers. Across this quarter, you will elevate and expand both your own energy for emailing, and the energy embedded in your emails."
Early in the quarter, the focus will be on fixing any breaks in your sign-ups, autoresponders, and author newsletters. As the quarter progresses, we'll be activating and optimising your communications for wider reach and greater ROI.
- April 24: ACCESSing The Right Reader: Getting out of your author head to walk in your reader's shoes then setting up / fixing any breaks in your ACCESS marketing.
- May 24: Activating Author Values in Your Emails: Aligning your books, your author mission, and your publishing model with your email plans. Awakening and infusing the right energy into your words, before you write to your readers and followers.
- Jun 24: Optimising: Using emails about your books (both your backlist and the book you’re currently working on) to draw readers closer and join a street team.
You'll do much of the work there and then, in the workshops. You'll have all your questions answered, and you'll go away with clear homework.
The workshop offers personalized advice, group discussions, and Orna's expert insights on merging creativity with commerce.
She will guide you through a variety of f-r-e-e-writing exercises that will greatly enhance your writing, your publishing, and your planning process as you work through 2024.
Register here to attend the live workshop and gain access to additional Patron-exclusive benefits: Selfpublishingadvice.org/WorkshopProgram
Once registered, you’ll be provided with full details of how to prepare and attend.
Happy planning!
Kayleigh
PS: PLEASE NOTE: If you are already registered through Patreon, or through Orna's Kickstarter campaign, you don't need to sign up again. Your links and downloads will be with you shortly.
🗓️ Live Workshop Details
- Date & Time: Thursday, April 4th 5pm UK time
- Location: Zoom (once you register, links will be sent to you 24 hours in advance of the workshop)
- Duration: 90 mins.
- Facilitator: Orna Ross, celebrated novelist and poet, and founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors
- Replay: Available soon after
Live or In Replay You will:
💡 LEARN: A planning process that will enable you to consciously:
- Create Money: Monetizing your writing and publishing without compromising artistic integrity.
- Create Meaning: Infusing your work with significance and personal resonance.
- Creatively Plan: Tools and techniques to harmonize your artistic aspirations with practical business.
✍️ DO: Brainstorming, f-r-e-e-writing, and planning exercises that explain and explore:
- Your personal strengths and weaknesses and the challenges and opportunities you face (SWOT analysis), and how creative planning can help.
- The importance of rest and play to the creative process
- The principles that enable creative publishing.
- The three hats an indie author must wear and how to improve your abilities under each.
Engage with the transformative power of f-r-e-e-writing, a core technique Orna advocates for unblocking and unleashing creative flow. This method is not just about writing freely; it's about diving deep into your subconscious to access a more authentic creative connection to your writing and publishing.
🤝 CONNECT: Network with other indie authors. Build lasting relationships, and be part of the supportive Go Creative! community, all working from a proven program that works.
✅ How to Register
Once registered, you’ll be provided with full details of how to prepare and attend.
📞 Contact Us
If you've any questions, please contact Kayleigh at info@ornaross.com.
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