Judith Briles
Biography

Dr. Judith Briles, the award-winning and best-selling author of 36 books, including Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms, Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Publishers, The CrowdFunding Guide for Authors & Writers, and How to Avoid Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers, and Boo-Boos. Her latest, How to Create a $1,000,000 Speech, was released in 2018.

To date, her books have been translated into 16 countries with over 1,000,000 copies sold! Judith's books and work have been featured in over 1,000 radio and TV shows including repeat appearances on CNN, CNBC, and Oprah. She has worked with over 1,000 authors and created 500 plus best-sellers. Print publications include Newsweek, People, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Working Woman and The National Enquirer!

Based in Colorado, she is the founding Partner in The Book Shepherd, a book and publishing consulting and project management firm that works with authors at all stages of their book to create a book they never regret!

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Creating Confidence as an Author & Writer

Based on the best-selling book, The Confidence Factor—Cosmic Gooses Lay Golden Eggs, writers and authors will learn that confidence is acquired, not inherited; and it usually comes from the pitfalls—the cosmic gooses—of the writing life. Woven around the 6 Steps to Building Confidence, this stimulating and humorous speech is guaranteed to motivate and inspire audiences. With confidence, anything is possible. Laugh and learn as Dr. Judith Briles weaves the 6 Steps to Building Confidence to open or close your conference. This keynote/general session has consistently received outstanding evaluations.

Creating Author and Book Platforms

Most authors think that a Platform is all your social media contacts. Wrong. Platforms consist of three critical elements. With them in place, the people can, and will come. Your book buyers. Based on the IndieFab award for Book of the Year in Publishing/Writing Author YOU: Creating and Building the Author and Book Platforms , participants will learn:

How to create the Author and Book Platforms
The critical elements of every Author and Book Platforms;
Why you should know intimately who your reader is before you starting writing;
How to bring value to the reader;
How to build spin-offs to expand your base.

If Publishing Is in Your Midst, Which Option is for YOU and YOUR Book?

Amazon changed the publishing field—a great thing for so many newbie authors who didn’t think a New York publisher or an agent would ever give them a moment’s notice … and it’s also not so good a thing.
Does it make sense to seek a traditional publishing contract? Or, does it make sense to look at alternatives, including self-publishing?
What are the differences between traditional, self, independent, paid-to-publishing, hybrid and vanity publishing?
Publishing continues to morph …
Do you know what your options are?
Have you created your Author’s Platform?
What about a Book Platform?
Do you know how to avoid the publishing predators and do you know who they are?
Do you know the dollars and sense of publishing?
Do you know that a book, the right book, can accelerate your career and skyrocket revenues?
Do you know which publishing option is the right fit for you and your book?

You will after this presentation.

CrowdFunding 101 for Authors and Writers

It takes a village to create a book … and money. Money for editing; money for cover design; money for interior design and layout; money for marketing; money for publicity; money for printing books; money for education to become a savvy author; money for …

Yes, it takes money. Thousands of dollars. Unless you have plenty of money to fund your book; an awesome friend or relative that loves what you do and is glad to write checks to support you and your journey; or you win the lottery … you need to noodle ways to underwrite your book project(s).

CrowdFunding is a way to get money … other people’s money that comes to you as a “gift.” Oh, you will pay taxes because you will report it as revenues … but you don’t have to pay it back. That’s a Happy Dance for today.

Your take-aways include:

Learn what CrowdFunding is and how it can work for you.
IDing which source to use and how it works and how you get paid.
How to structure your campaign and manage your roll-out.
How to create perks/rewards that deliver buy-in.
Create a CrowdFunding GamePlan.
Timelines and how to develop partners to support your quest.
Using Virtual Assistants to do preliminary and ongoing campaign work.

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