Authors & Audiences
In Authors & Audiences, YA author and presentation coach Caroline Leech, chats to authors, illustrators, booksellers, librarians, publishers and other randomly fascinating guests, and invites them to share the secrets of their public speaking confidence and their media/social media strategies. Caroline will also share her own extensive knowledge of public speaking, storytelling, event planning and media strategy, so if you want to feel sure you can present yourself and your books with both confidence and professionalism, you’ve come to the right place.
Authors & Audiences
#4 - Community - what that is and where to find it
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Caroline Leech
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Season 1
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Episode 4
In today's episode, Caroline digs deeper into what community means to writers, following her conversation last week with fellow 2017 Debut, Tiffany D Jackson.
In it, she talks about the importance of her own writing communities as a way of helping you identify where you can find your own. These include:
Eleri Grace - author of the WW2 Romance Clubmobile Girls series, and Caroline's writing buddy
Nikki Loftin - middle grade author who showed Caroline what writing conferences are really about
Writing workshops in Houston:
Membership organizations:
- SCBWI Houston and SCBWI Austin - Caroline's local chapters of the international membership organization, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
- Writers League of Texas
Writing challenges
- Jami Attenburg’s #1000words of summer
- Julie Duffy’s StoryADay
- NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month every November
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