Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association In this session, APA Style experts will answer frequently asked questions about APA Style, note areas that copyeditors should watch for, dispel some APA Style myths, and share resources the APA Style team has created for learning APA Style.

Guest: NAIWE’s Nonfiction Expert Amy Waters Yarsinske Interested in writing nonfiction books? Learn from one of the best! In this webinar, Amy Waters Yarsinske, who has published over 85 nonfiction books, shares the ins and outs of the nonfiction world. She tells her personal story of always having been a writer at heart, even though she went on an adventurous path before she began writing full time.

Guest: NAIWE's Executive Director April Michelle Davis From thoughts of starting a business all the way to hanging your sign “open for business!” As you prepare to become a professional freelancer, there are many things to consider such as the type of business and the protection it will offer to business tax preparations and correctly estimating quarterly payments to accurate record keeping and project status.

Editors are often challenged to work on multiple projects simultaneously while editing at different levels, some manuscripts requiring a developmental edit, some requiring a heavy copyedit, and others requiring a light copyedit. April Michelle Davis will discuss the differences between the various levels of editing and how to easily transition between them when working on more than one project in a single day.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis There are many benefits to being a member of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, and NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle would like to introduce you to some of them!

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis There are many benefits to being a member of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, and NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle would like to introduce you to some of them!

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis The more publishing professionals can do to increase efficiency in the writing, editing, or proofreading process, the more valuable they are to publishers and clients, and the more they can earn. Get the scoop on creating and using macros in Word to make your workflow faster, more efficient, more accurate, and more productive.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis Writing is no longer a lucrative career. The most recent study by the Authors Guild, a professional organization for book writers, shows that it may not even be a livable career. In this webinar, we will discuss the theme of NAIWE membership: developing multiple streams of income. And we will discuss how to leverage your book to succeed in a career in writing!

Guest: NAIWE’s Social Media Market Expert Ashley Henyan Are you posting on your social media platforms only to find your high school best friend and your mom are the only followers liking or sharing your content? Get tips and tricks for engaging your followers and gaining new ones. Learn how to create a toolkit to help engage a network of social advocates to work for you, bringing greater visibility to your brand.

Guest: Conference Speaker Bennie Currie For colleagues already established or approaching retirement age, it’s vital to have a strong financial plan and retirement options in mind before they are needed. Find out how to build a more-secure future for yourself and your freelance business in this practical session.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Bowker If you can click a mouse and type on a keyboard, you have all the skills you need to build your own great-looking website! Bowker has done the hard work for you and created a complete website solution specially designed for authors. You get all the elements you need to construct an eye-catching website that will attract and engage the readers you want to reach.

Guest: Conference Speaker Bradley Rayford, Jr. Using visual tools to enhance a business is becoming more important. Learn how to create videos and podcasts that will go beyond the traditional ways to promote your freelance business — and may increase your profits by adding to the services you provide to clients. This webinar will encourage freelancers who are doing audio to expand to also do video!

Guest: NAIWE’s Self-Publishing Expert Brian Schwartz Getting your book found is a matter of having the right content in the right place at the right time. The good news is that it’s less about driving traffic to your own site and more about being visible where your audience already exists. It’s wise to choose a few platforms to master instead of spreading yourself too thin, but which ones produce the highest ROI?

Guest: NAIWE’s Kindle Expert Brian Schwartz The internet has affected nearly every industry, and books are no exception. In this webinar, Brian Schwartz showcases how bestselling authors are taking advantage of the web to increase value, grow sales, and connect with readers. He’ll also touch on the key elements of an effective author website and the common mistakes. You’ll hear the 5-figure tip Brian gave.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Cadman Training Multiple tools claim to help editors and writers speed up and improve the quality of their work. But how do you know which tools to choose, which are easy to use, reliable, and good value for the money? To help you determine what’s worth your investment of time and money, Hilary Cadman will share three of her favorite tools: PerfectIt, PhraseExpress, and ProWritingAid.

Guest: NAIWE’s Content Marketing Expert Carol Tice So you’ve got your LinkedIn profile set up. Now what? What do you write in your status updates, or in LinkedIn’s articles section, to build your authority and attract the clients you want? This example-filled presentation will show you multiple strategies and approaches for creating content for LinkedIn that promotes your business—even if you don’t have much time.

Guest: NAIWE’s Ghostwriting Expert Claudia Suzanne There are a lot of good writers, so what differentiates your book? Marketable Literary Property! It’s all about improving your book’s value in the marketplace. Discover truths about the book industry and how a certified ghostwriter can give your title a better chance in the marketplace. Learn about the art of musical line editing and what an industry pitch is.

Guest: NAIWE’s Ghostwriting Expert Claudia Suzanne Do you know about the polish step between the final rewrite and line/copy editing? It’s called Musical Line Editing (MLE), and it’s the ghostwriter’s secret ace-in-the-hole to transform a good manuscript. In fact, MLE is exactly the type of polish traditional publishers used to do on all their acquired titles, but now can only afford to do for high-end authors.

Guest: NAIWE’s Headline Expert Dana Sitar A single headline is not sufficient for most content in digital publishing. Readers access your content in a variety of contexts, and the headline that’s effective in one context is often less effective in another. This training shows you how to craft headlines that catch readers’ attention across platforms, including websites, social media, email, and search.

Guest: Conference Speaker Dick Margulis Independent authors often expect freelance communications professionals to design and lay out their books. Get the basics of using InDesign to provide effective, attractive, readable typography, and layout through a software demonstration where you will leave prepared to work on projects created in InDesign.

NAIWE's Conference Speaker Dick Margulis Self-publishing authors have become one of the biggest, and often best, potential clients for freelancers, especially editors, proofreaders, indexers, illustrators, photographers, and book designers. Working with these clients often means shepherding them through the publishing process. In this webinar, discover how to manage this potentially profitable side of freelancing.

Guest: NAIWE's Benefit Partner Fictionary The editing industry is full of secrets. And one of them is “All writers should perform their own story edit.” We’re talking about a structural edit of fiction. Kristina Stanley will share why story editing is essential and the top 5 steps in a structural edit of a novel, and you’ll leave this session with actionable advice you can immediately apply to your book.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Fictionary Are you a fiction editor who wants to elevate your editing skills? Perhaps you’re a copyeditor looking to expand your business into story editing. Or are you looking for a method to edit consistently and quickly every time? Editing a novel is a complex, cognitive task. This webinar shows you the critical story elements to evaluate when performing a story edit.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Fictionary Writers know the excitement of typing “The End” on their first draft. Before you share your story with others, you owe it to yourself to tell the best possible story. Learn how to story edit to refine a story readers will enjoy reading from beginning to end! Maybe you’re a structural editor for fiction and are worried that you’re overly influencing a client’s manuscript.

Guest: NAIWE’s Novel Writing Expert Greg Smith Storytelling is as old as the human race. Over the ages we’ve come to expect a pattern to storytelling. In this webinar, Greg Smith lays out this time-proven pattern. Based on Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey, mythology, psychology, and screenwriting techniques, this webinar will help you plot your story before you put pen to paper.

Guest: NAIWE’s Novel Writing Expert Greg Smith You’ve probably heard of Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey.” This is the time-worn pattern of stories that dates to antiquity. But as every story must have a hero (or protagonist), there must also be a villain (or antagonist). In this hour-long webinar, Greg Smith (The Agile Writer) will review the Hero’s Journey, then lay out the Villain’s Journey.

Guest: NAIWE’s Novel Writing Expert Greg Smith Write your first draft in just six months using the Agile Writer Method! This method combines the lessons of myth, storytelling, psychology, and a little project management. The Agile Writer Method has been used to successfully complete over 50 first drafts. Yours could be next!

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Intelligent Editing If you use CMOS, the collaboration between the Manual and PerfectIt offers a new way to check your documents. This session shows how you can use The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt to save time in your editing work. It takes a deep dive into how the style works and what it finds so that you understand how and when to apply it.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner the J. Rosen Group You have written an amazing book and it has been published . . . now what? For your book to achieve significant sales and success it’s essential you have a strong and comprehensive marketing program in place. This is where we come in.

Guest: NAIWE’s Freelance Expert Jake Poinier As a freelancer, pricing your services properly is the foundation of your long-term financial prosperity and day-to-day psychological well-being. In this webinar Jake “Dr. Freelance” Poinier offers a strategic, value-focused approach to setting your fee structure, taking into account the numerous factors that can’t be found on an industry rate sheet or association survey.

Guest: NAIWE’s Freelance Expert Jake Poinier Part of the enjoyment of freelancing is working with great clients on interesting projects—but let’s face it, it’s a lot more fun when the compensation matches our efforts. In this webinar, Jake “Dr. Freelance” Poinier will discuss the big picture of freelance finances as well as specific steps to help your business become more profitable.

Guest: Conference Speaker Jake Poinier No matter how long a freelancer has been in business, setting or negotiating rates is a constant challenge. Get the lowdown on this elemental aspect of freelancing to keep from undervaluing your business, skills, and experience!

Guest: NAIWE’s Freelance Expert Jake Poinier Freelance pricing isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition — and overlooking the nuances can leave you feeling overworked and underpaid. In this webinar, Jake “Dr. Freelance” Poinier discusses the principles of estimating, incorporating a range of diverse practice examples with real-world project descriptions and client scenarios.

Guest: NAIWE’s Freelance Expert Jake Poinier Setting and maintaining boundaries creates better client relationships and a more effective freelance business. Dr. Freelance provides steps to ensure that you’re delivering what clients need, while protecting your own sanity and profitability. This webinar will help you understand how to take a strategic approach, making the process smooth and efficient for both parties.

Guest: NAIWE’s Freelance Expert Jake Poinier You don’t have to be a freelancer for long before you learn that not every client is what they first seem, and not every project goes according to plan. In this webinar, Jake Poinier outlines a real-world approach to screening prospects as well as bringing challenging clients back into line.

Guest: NAIWE’s Freelance Expert Jake Poinier Any experienced freelancer will tell you that referrals offer the most powerful way to build and diversify your business. In this session, we’ll discuss how to create a system that increases your volume of high-quality word-of-mouth projects. Topics include benefits of referrals; when, where, and how to ask for them; and the key steps to take that will keep them flowing.

Guest: NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert Jeanne Grunert and Dr. Tim Johansson of A Deeper Way Participants in this workshop will use the ADW self-assessment tools before and during the workshop to understand their unique personality, what helps them thrive in the workplace, how they respond in different work situations, and how they develop trust and communication with clients.

Guest: NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert Jeanne Grunert In Part 2, participants will be encouraged to review their results from Part 1 and identify their own unique personal branding “calling cards”. Then, through various exercises, participants will develop their personal brand profile and leave the workshop with several ideas on how they can share their personal brand profile.

Guest: NAIWE’s Creative Nonfiction Jennia D’Lima Apart from bringing credibility to your topic, historical details have the benefit of helping your reader better understand the context surrounding your subject. This session shows how to sift through research and facts to find what will have the most impact and meaning as well as how to identify which areas of your manuscript would most benefit from these additions.

You’re certain that a memoir is the best way to share a personal event. But before you begin, it can be helpful to ask yourself a series of questions to determine whether writing a memoir is right for you. This webinar will use these questions to define what a memoir is and what it isn’t while also addressing an individual’s emotional readiness to share their story.

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre Everyone appreciates an apt simile or striking metaphor. Figurative language enlivens prose and aids the reader’s understanding. But it is easy to get entangled in mixed metaphors, comparisons that fizzle, or images that convey the opposite of what the writer intends. And writers are not always the best judges of their effects.

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre We know that split infinitives are okay, sentences can begin with conjunctions, sentence-ending prepositions are perfectly good English, and it’s okay to use hopefully as a sentence adverb. We know this because grammarians and linguists have been gleefully exploding shibboleths and bogus rules. But what rules or usages are worth maintaining?

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre John, who was a working newspaper editor for 40 years, has watched writers grapple with changing patterns of English usage and wants to help you make reasonable decisions. Anticipating your concerns, he is preparing advice on perennial concerns: Should we give up on “whom”? Is singular “they” here to stay and acceptable everywhere? What can we do about “lie” and “lay”?

Guest: NAIWE’s Tax Expert Kajli Prince For those of you who are putting funds in traditional or Roth IRAs to fund your retirement, the ages 50, 59 1/2, and 72 have implications for your taxes. There are limitations when it comes to IRAs whether it is a traditional or a Roth. The limitations have to do with income, whether or not you participate in your employer’s retirement account, your filing status, and your age.

Guest: NAIWE’s Tax Expert Kajli Prince It’s tax time! Learn about relevant credits and deductions that apply to independent writers and freelance editors, with a focus on the new deduction. The Qualified Business Income Deduction is a new provision from the most recent changes in the tax law (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) that allows small business owners to deduct up to 20% of their qualified business expenses.

Guest: NAIWE’s Tax Expert Kajli Prince 2020 was a year full of dramatic stimulus efforts intended to relieve huge financial stresses felt by most Americans. It seems that everyone is hopeful for 2021, but huge questions still loom large as to what happens next, especially with a new administration. Kajli Prince will share the 21 questions he is asked most frequently about what to expect in 2021.

Guest: NAIWE’s Tax Expert Kajli Prince Since COVID, Kajli Prince has found that his clients are more confused than ever about what to expect at tax time. In this webinar, Prince will share some of the questions of the past two years. He discusses issues like (advanced) child tax credit payments, stimulus payments, as well as how to avoid paying a tax penalty on coronavirus-related retirement distributions.

Guest: NAIWE’s Fiction Expert Karin Beery Beta readers can help authors clean up and strengthen their manuscripts without hiring an editor, but like editors, not all beta readers are the same. In this webinar, find out what to expect from beta readers, how to find good ones, and how you can collaborate with them to polish your manuscript.

Guest: NAIWE’s Fiction Expert Karin Beery What’s the difference between a freelance editor and an acquisitions editor? Do you need an agent? If you do, how do you find one? How do you decide between traditional publishing, self-publishing, and hybrid publishing? In this webinar, we’ll take the confusion out of editors, agents, and publishers and help you figure out which options will work for your publishing goals.

Guest: NAIWE’s Journalism Expert Kristen Fischer Want to know how to quickly find reputable sources? We'll go through tips and tricks from journalists to find the right sources for stories—in a pinch. This will include experts for quotes, as well as written research for articles.

Guest: NAIWE’s Journalism Expert Kristen Fischer Journalists have to guide an interview, and how they do it can make or break a story. In this webinar, we’ll explore different tactics for asking questions that receive more detailed responses and produce better sound bites. Come prepared with one example of a great question you’ve asked in the past, and one that you thought was great yet fell flat.

Guest: NAIWE’s Journalism Expert Kristen Fischer Whether you write for digital or print avenues, being a freelance journalist can be tough. This webinar will explore how to target publications, secure editorial contacts, line up regular work, and overcome obstacles that arise when you’re not on staff. Learn business tips to break into new publications as a freelancer and keep a steady flow of freelance work coming.

Guest: NAIWE’s Journalism Expert Kristen Fischer We live in the age of misinformation so it’s vital for journalists to use reputable sources. How can you sift through the information on the internet and find legitimate sources? How can you pinpoint sources for interviews and ensure they are legitimate? This webinar will take a deep dive with tips to help you ensure that your research and interview sources are solid.

In this training, we’ll discuss ways to provide outstanding and consistent client service while building automation or systems that save you time. We’ll discuss three big ones: sales pipeline systems, onboarding, and offboarding. Make a better impression on your clients and earn repeat business and referrals while spending more of your time on billable work.

Guest: NAIWE's Business of Writing Expert Laura Pennington Briggs You’re not just a freelancer, you’re a CEO. Discover how to systematize, protect, and run your business like a pro. Get streamlined and attract the right kinds of clients by treating your writing like a business. Discover top tips for protecting boundaries, preventing scope creep, organizing your communication, and working effectively with clients.

Guest: NAIWE’s Business of Writing Expert Laura Pennington Briggs Making a good living as a freelancer is a challenge, especially nowadays. Discover what today’s six-figure freelancers have in common and learn how to search, negotiate, and maximize your revenue and profits as you build a successful business as a freelancer.

Guest: NAIWE’s Business of Writing Expert Laura Pennington Briggs Interested in publishing for nonfiction? Getting an agent may help you receive the best offers and consideration from publishers. Discover tips for writing a book proposal, how to create an agent shortlist, how to note and keep track of agent requests, what to ask when meeting with agents, and more. Get prepared to start your query prep process!

Guest: NAIWE’s Business of Writing Expert Laura Pennington Briggs Marketing is often overwhelming and ignored by freelancers. In this webinar, freelancers will learn the importance of the statement “always be marketing” and how to make it an easy, consistent lift for your freelance brand. Discover how to find your highest-value marketing activities, schedule them, and consistently build a warm pipeline of work.

Guest: NAIWE’s Business of Writing Expert Laura Pennington Briggs It isn’t enough to launch your freelance business and do good work; you also have to let the world know that you exist, what you offer, and how to find you — and keep those messages going. That often means having a strong presence on LinkedIn, which is retaining its position as the lead platform for business networking, visibility, and connections.

Guest: NAIWE’s Author Representation Expert Leslie Truex Interested in working with an agent to market your book to traditional publishers? An agent actually performs more services too! In addition to revisions, edits, and grammar checks, an agent submits a book to one imprint at a time and keeps track of the process! An agent discusses contracts with you, is a mediator for you, and is current on publishing news!

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne Join us for this round-up of current issues surrounding artificial intelligence and the world of creative content. We’ll review pending cases, as well as what the Copyright Office, publishers, creators, and some major associations representing creators and publishers have to say about generative AI. We’ll explore some language you might see in contracts.

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permission Expert MJ Courchesne As a writer, you know the value of your work, and have a keen interest in protecting it. You also may know that your work is copyrighted as soon as you put thoughts into a fixed medium, so why should you bother registering your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office? This webinar will review the basics of copyright law in the United States.

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne Learn about what the newly established Copyright Claims Board means for individual creators in this town hall style webinar. We’ll also talk about the implications of a shared copyright between two or more authors.

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright and Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne Learn the ins and outs of what publishers require when they ask you to "clear" permission for third-party materials you are incorporating into your work. What things do you need to have in a permission agreement, how do you go about getting permission anyway, and how long will this process take?

Guest: NAIWE’s Copyright & Permissions Expert MJ Courchesne This webinar will feature some sample agreements and sources for templates that the writer may find useful. What does a work-for-hire look like? What should you expect in a trade publishing contract? How common are NDAs in the publishing world? How do you format a simple permission request? Who can you reach out to for help when reviewing a contract?

Guest: NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert Marcia Rosen A good detective needs to be tenacious and patient. A good detective needs to look at the truths of a situation and ask questions that get to the heart of the matter. Those same skills are needed to write a good memoir. How do you search for clues about your history and their impact on your life?

Guest: NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert Marcia Rosen The audiobook market is one of the fastest growing segments of the publishing industry. According to the Audio Publishers Association, it grew an estimated 24.5% from 2017 to 2018. This included self-published authors and small publishers who accessed numerous marketing actions and opportunities to create an awareness and enhance sales.

Guest: NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert Marcia Rosen From staying on track to not giving up or giving in, from not listening to negative voices, including your own, this webinar is to encourage you to stay determined, confident, courageous, hopeful, inspired, and motivated with respect to your writing. We’ll talk about what can inhibit and interfere with writing goals and how to improve them.

Guest: NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert Marcia Rosen Crime is the number one genre people read. Dozens of published authors have created stories hearing the voices of past famous detectives. Many of us mystery writers have the ambition and desire to create thrilling crime fiction with clever detectives. I certainly have been impacted and influenced by these past crime-solvers. Have you?

Guest: NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert Marcia Rosen How do you reach your potential market, especially now with limited opportunities for in-person events? As a marketing/public relations professional and agency founder, Marcia Rosen knows authors are like any business and they should create a presence and consistent message by implementing various marketing strategies.

Guest: NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert Marcia Rosen A good mystery story includes an intriguing plot, interesting characters, descriptive places and locations that set a mood, interesting and controversial dialogue, clues (real and false) leading to the bad guys, and a bit of humor. This webinar provides insight on writing a mystery, building suspense, and presenting the essential elements.

Guest: NAIWE’s AP Stylebook Expert Mark Allen The growing reference tome provides guidance on how to use gender-neutral language and language dealing with sexual assault. It cautions against the “senior citizen” label. And it proclaims “mistress” is not a very useful term. Mark Allen gives the rundown on all the updates in the new edition and talk about the move away from the paper book and toward doing more online.

Guest: NAIWE’s AP Stylebook Expert Mark Allen The Associated Press Stylebook, the essential guide to style and usage for news, PR, marketing, and corporate communication, is now updated for 2019 with its most substantive changes in years.

Guest: Conference Speaker Nicole Evelina Learn how to know if your book idea is likely to appeal to traditional publishers and whether your self-published book is likely to reach readers. Topics will include gatekeepers in traditional publishing, genre trends, perennial bestselling topics, the importance of platform, and how to find an idea that not only appeals to you but fills a gap in the marketplace.

Guest: NAIWE’s Novel Writing Expert Nicole Evelina They say everyone has a book in them, or maybe some short stories. As a corporate communicator, you may have the ability to write but may not feel creative enough to break out of your business-minded mold. A veteran of business communication and a USA Today bestselling author, Nicole Evelina will show you how to tap into ideas and talents you didn’t know you had.

Guest: NAIWE Benefit Partner Officially Social Alison Lukin, owner of Officially Social, will address the main roadblocks of social media success. She’ll give insight on content choices, calendars, and which platforms to use, along with other helpful hints — all for book editors! Whether you’re a book editor or a writer, this webinar will be full of helpful advice to level up your social media presence.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid Editing your manuscript sentence by sentence can be daunting, but line editing is a crucial part of the writing process. Take the fear out of line editing with a structured approach to improving your prose. Learn to elevate your storytelling with a step-by-step approach to line editing. Learn to harness editing technology to breathe life into your manuscript with ease.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid As writers we often spend too much time focusing on what our ideas are instead of how to communicate those ideas most effectively. If we don’t sharpen our sentences with our readers in mind, then our ideas will get lost and our writing will be less engaging. In this presentation, ProWritingAid will walk you through five key ways to improve the craft of your writing.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid As nice as it would be, writing your novel isn’t over when you type “The End.” In fact, the actual work is just beginning. During the editing process, your novel will go from rough first draft to thrilling final manuscript. In this workshop, a ProWritingAid rep will walk you through the most important edits you should make to your manuscript to ensure it’s publish-ready.

Guest: NAIWE’s Professionalism Expert Robert Moskowitz Almost everyone can write. Nearly every high school graduate can cobble together some words. Some people can even earn a few bucks as a writer. But if you really want to pursue the writing life, you’ll find you need to succeed at becoming a professional. Many years ago, I had a dream of writing professionally. I even had a job as a writer. But it was just a job.

Interviews are key to a variety of writing and editing work. Whether you’re doing an interview with a subject for a project or are the subject of one yourself, interviewing is an art and a skill. This webinar will focus on how to craft interviews that make the topic and subject come to life, along with tips on being a better subject oneself.

Guest: Conference Speaker Ruth Thaler-Carter As the public becomes more aware of the value of including diverse voices in all types of editorial work, freelancers can respond by helping their clients ensure that projects are both inclusive and sensitive. These tips will strengthen any freelancer’s business by providing ways to make their and their clients’ work diverse, inclusive, equitable, and sensitive.

Guest: NAIWE’s Networking Expert Ruth Thaler-Carter You may have information worth sharing with colleagues (and maybe even clients). You’ve developed experience, knowledge, and a strong skill set in your niche. It might be time to add to that skill set by becoming a presenter of conference speeches, workshops, or classes. This webinar will provide tips on why and how to develop a public speaking persona and service.

Guest: NAIWE’s Networking Expert Ruth Thaler-Carter Starting a writing business is exciting and challenging. Get some practical, effective tips from a long-time, award-winning freelance writer/editor in this session. Learn about types of writing that can be the basis of a business; getting experience; finding outlets, audiences, readers and clients; avoiding scams; and more.

Guest: Conference Speaker Ruth Thaler-Carter No matter what kind of freelance, consulting, entrepreneurial or other business you’d like to have (or enhance), achieving success will involve many of the same techniques and processes. Find out what you need to know and do to get your business off to a strong start and keep it rolling.

Guest: NAIWE’s Networking Expert Ruth Thaler-Carter Many of us tend to think of networking in terms of meeting in person, but nowadays the majority of networking takes place online. Learn about why networking is important to your writing or editing business and how to make the most of those virtual platforms and communities to power up your presence to potential clients and value to colleagues.

Guest: NAIWE’s Networking Expert Ruth Thaler-Carter We hear about networking all the time, but what is it and why is it valuable to independent writers and editors? Networking is simply interacting with colleagues to exchange information, resources, and support. Done right, it can create credibility, provide leads to new projects and clients, and bolster an independent business in many ways.

Guest: NAIWE’s Networking Expert Ruth Thaler-Carter Networking is more than a common buzzword; it’s an important key to success as an independent writer or editor. Learn about the best ways to make networking an effective, functional element of your independent business, as well as what not to do.

Guest: Conference Speakers Ruth Thaler-Carter and Kathie York Every freelancer needs a website to be found, vetted, and hired, but you need a site that’s easy to use and makes the most of your skills and experience while building credibility and brand. Learn why and how to create (or improve) a site, content and design essentials, and examples, and discover why websites aren’t just about bots and search engines.

Guest: NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert Stephen Colwell As freelancers, we often find ourselves thrust into team environments that are unfamiliar, confusing, and chaotic. Assignments often lack clear definition, details are scarce, feedback is vague, and deadlines are moving targets. Stephen Colwell shares the methods top-performing teams use to empower each other, eliminate waste, and accelerate progress.

Guest: NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert Stephen Colwell Far too many creative professionals are struggling with a relentless din of meetings and interruptions that too often get in the way of the strategic work they were hired to do. During this webinar, we’ll walk through a simple set of practices and routines even the smallest teams can use to improve focus without all the disruption and confusion.

Guest: NAIWE’s Media Interviews Expert Suzanne Lynn Cheesman Your work is not done when you finish writing a book. Now you need to let the world know about it, but how? Forbes endorses video as an author’s go-to strategy for marketing: “Video will be the primary marketing format for years to come.” You are in the business of selling books, so let’s talk about the why’s and how’s of video marketing as an author tool!

Guest: NAIWE’s Memoir Expert Suzanne Sherman Memoir writers often spend time exploring material that is essential for their book but is uncomfortable to dive into to craft scenes and write an engaging narrative. Suzanne Sherman will give you tips for navigating the emotional territory. She will address self-exposure and the exposure of others. Suzanne will also discuss legalities and the pros and cons of pen names.

Guest: NAIWE’s Book Cover Expert Tamian Wood In this webinar you’ll learn the basics of color psychology, including cultural responses and the language of color. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore the transformative magic of typography and how you can use it, in varying ways, to change the message of your words through your font choice. And lastly, we’ll take a dive into tracking, kerning, and leading.

Guest: NAIWE’s Book Promotions Expert Tina Glasneck Are you struggling with what you can do to make your books a success? Join USA Today bestselling author Tina Glasneck as she gives practical advice on what you can apply to your career to find readers and gain success. This webinar will dig into the basics and provide practical tips that you can implement right away to start you on your successful author journey.

Guest: NAIWE’s Research Paper Expert Yateendra Joshi Research and academic papers rarely make easy reading, given the dense subject matter, rigid conventions, and unappealing layout and design. Also, the layout and design must work across platforms and devices. The design must also take into account how research papers are accessed because rarely are they read from beginning to end.