WNFIN 2017 Videos
Introduction
Why Take A Challenge and How To Meet It with Nina Amir
Nina Amir is an Amazon bestselling author of such books as How to Blog a Book, The Author Training Manual and Creative Visualization for Writers. She is known as the Inspiration to Creation Coach because she helps writers, bloggers and other creative people combine their passion and purpose so they move from idea to inspired action and Achieve More Inspired Results. This helps them positively and meaningfully impact the world - with their words or other creations.
Nina is a hybrid author who has self-published 17 books and had as many as nine books on Amazon Top 100 lists and six on the same bestseller list (Authorship) at the same time.
As an Author Coach, Nina supports writers on the journey to successful authorship. Some of her clients have sold 300,000+ copies of their books, landed deals with major publishing houses and created thriving businesses around their books. She is the creator of a proprietary Author Training curriculum for writers and other coaches.
She is an international speaker and award-winning journalist and blogger as well as the founder of National Nonfiction Writing Month and the Nonfiction Writers’ University.
Nina also is one of 300 elite Certified High Performance Coaches working around the world.
For more information, visit www.ninaamir.com.
Video One: 30 October 2017
How to Write a Book in a Month with Grant Faulkner
Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, The Los Angeles Review, and PANK. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. He recently published a collection of one hundred 100-word stories, Fissures, two of which are included in Best Small Fictions 2016. His book of essays on creativity, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Prompts to Boost Your Creative Mojo, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books in October 2017.
Grant has presented at events such as the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Associated Writing Programs Conference, Book Expo America, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Oakland Book Festival, the Bay Area Book Festival, Poets & Writers Live, the San Francisco Writers Conference, the Commonwealth Club, the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit, Writers Digest West, the Porchlight storytelling series, Litquake, Lit Crawl, the Mendocino Writers Conference, and the Arizona State Library Association’s YA Summit.
Additionally, Grant is co-founder of the Flash Fiction Collective, a member of the Oakland Book Festival’s Literary Council, a member of the National Writing Project Writers Council, and a member of Lit Camp’s Advisory Council.
Video Two: 6 November 2017
How to Write a Book in a Month with Ellen Violette
Ellen Violette is a literary strategist and publishing expert as well as an award-winning business coach. She helps thought leaders, speakers, coaches, independent professionals, businesses, and authors get their message out to the world giving them instant credibility and expert status, and increase their earning power, so they can affect change in the world and transform lives.
She's a 7-time, #1 bestselling author and creator of the Bestseller to Business Pro Blueprint. Ellen is also a 2-time ELit Award winner, recipient of the "Be the Change" Award, and a Grammy-nominated songwriter.
Video Three: 13 November 2017
How to Write a Book in a Month with Rick Benzel
Rick Benzel is passionate about ideas, writing and book design, and making publishing easier and faster for people who absolutely want to write an intelligent book. He specializes in working with professionals, social entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers who have a burning desire to write a book and a strong message or story to convey to the world.
His forte is non-fiction in any genre and helps authors produce state of the art eBooks and video books, as well as good print books.
Rick is a profoundly creative soul, interested in BIG ideas. His favorite expression is “There’s a book idea in that.” He has been a professional ghostwriter, editor, and publishing consultant for 40+ years. Rick has edited scores of books, authored five, and ghostwritten nearly 20 books for consultants, coaches, and business leaders. His career includes editorial positions at Houghton Mifflin, Prentice Hall, and Jeremy P. Tarcher where he was the Senior Editor for the best-selling creativity book, The Artist’s Way. Recently, he was the author’s editor for the NY Times Business Bestseller We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World by Simon Mainwaring (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Rick is also a highly experienced creativity coach. He helped develop and edit many books about the creative process, including by Eric Maisel’s Staying Sane in the Arts and Jordan Ayan’s AHA! Ten Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas.
Rick is the Founder of the Creativity Coaching Association, the only association in the U.S. to train and certify professional creativity coaches. In that capacity, he established the Creativity Coaching Association Press and self-published Inspiring Creativity, an anthology of 22 essays by the leading creativity coaches in the country. The book was selected as the Book-of-Month for the North Light Book Club and sold more than 20,000 copies.
Rick has written scores of business documents, case studies, thought leadership articles, and training courses for many large U.S. and international corporations, universities, and government agencies. He has also ghosted and edited professional articles that have appeared in numerous professional publications.
Video Four: 20 November 2017
How to Write a Book in a Month with Tom Corson-Knowles
Tom Corson-Knowles is the international bestselling author of 27 books including The Kindle Publishing Bible, founder of TCK Publishing, an independent publishing company specializing in digital marketing, and host of The Publishing Profits Podcast show.Video Five: 27 November 2017
How to Write a Book in a Month with Shelley Hitz
Shelley Hitz has coached thousands of authors through her books, training programs, online events, seminars, and more. She has over a decade of experience speaking to groups of all sizes, from small workshops to keynote presentations in front of thousands. However, she is best known for injecting energy and enthusiasm into everything she does and inspiring those around her to take action.
Her clients are successfully publishing new books almost every day and some have become #1 Amazon best-selling authors in their category within days of publishing their books simply by following her proven system.
Learn Shelley’s 6-Step "ASCENT Method"; she has used to write 40+ nonfiction books FAST.: www.shelleyhitz.com/freetraining
