Beyond the Margins is a twice-monthly newsletter helping authors create enterprises they love around their books, expertise, and experience. It combines 25+ years of indie publishing and author coaching into practical business insights, strategic guidance, and a community of author entrepreneurs.
FREE! TOMORROW! Experience-Driven Marketing: Creative Events & Partnerships That Work - All Authors Welcome - 4/16, 1pm-2pm CT
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Beyond the Margins presents Experience-Driven Marketing: Creative Events & Partnerships That Work for You with Author David Jay Collins Business Know-How + Author Community Support Why did I invite David to lead one of our Power Hours? Because every time I saw him on Instagram (or in my neighborhood) he was doing something fresh and creative! Why should yout not miss this one? Because I've seen his slides and heard his info and you are guaranteed to be inspired and learn something (I did!). Beyond the Margins presents a practical session on getting visibility beyond traditional book marketing. Learn creative event and partnership strategies from David Jay Collins, an indie author who’s mastered the art of bringing his work (and characters) to life on and off the page. David has written six novels spanning LGBTQ+ fiction, horror, and romance over 50, and he’s built his own playbook for experience-driven marketing that actually works. Discover how to create events, forge partnerships, and center your unique voice in your creative engagement. Get your marketing questions answered by someone who’s done it, plus community brainstorming and support. Join our next free 60-minute power hour—bring your visibility challenges, leave with actionable strategies. Our monthly Zoom calls are for all authors—aspiring, new, or established; fiction or nonfiction; traditionally, hybrid-, or self-published; if you do fluffy, scholarly, memoirs, cookbooks, children's books. ALL authors are welcome. These meetings are a little bit business know-how + a whole lot of community support, brainstorming, ideas, and inspiration for your questions and challenges related to the topic of the month. Creative Events & Partnerships
Q&A with Creative Partnership Pro David Jay Collins and Community Brainstorming
Wrap-Up & Next Steps
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Beyond the Margins: Author Entrepreneurship Beyond the Page
Beyond the Margins is a twice-monthly newsletter helping authors create enterprises they love around their books, expertise, and experience. It combines 25+ years of indie publishing and author coaching into practical business insights, strategic guidance, and a community of author entrepreneurs.
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