Welcome to The Soul-Driven Author Summit
September 24-26, 2025
Krystalya Marie'
Building And Leveraging Your Email List As An Author

Latara Dragoo
Reverse Engineer Your Nonfiction Book to Build Your Business

Latara Dragoo is a Digital Marketing Strategist with a passion for helping small business owners and coaches overcome their biggest marketing challenges. With 18 years of experience in the luxury publishing industry, 20 years of experience in marketing and graphic design, and 10 years in online marketing, Latara has the skills and experience to help her clients succeed.
Latara specializes in sales funnel design, event launches, social media optimization, and managing the tech side of things to ensure clients effectively create a strong online presence and attract their ideal clients. Her expertise allows her to provide unique solutions tailored to meet individual client needs.
As a busy, non-technical small business owner or coach, it can be overwhelming to navigate the tech and ever-evolving digital marketing landscape. Latara takes a client-centric approach by providing outside-the-box, win/win solutions that help her clients focus on their area of expertise by removing tech overwhelm, as well as the mystery around putting the pieces together to develop and implement a winning digital marketing strategy.
Her ultimate goal is to help clients thrive in the new normal by bringing their vision to life and creating value for their target audience.
Latara specializes in sales funnel design, event launches, social media optimization, and managing the tech side of things to ensure clients effectively create a strong online presence and attract their ideal clients. Her expertise allows her to provide unique solutions tailored to meet individual client needs.
As a busy, non-technical small business owner or coach, it can be overwhelming to navigate the tech and ever-evolving digital marketing landscape. Latara takes a client-centric approach by providing outside-the-box, win/win solutions that help her clients focus on their area of expertise by removing tech overwhelm, as well as the mystery around putting the pieces together to develop and implement a winning digital marketing strategy.
Her ultimate goal is to help clients thrive in the new normal by bringing their vision to life and creating value for their target audience.
Laura B. Fox
Your Book as a Catalyst for Change: How Your Story Becomes Your Reader's Roadmap
Friday, 26 September 2025 11:30 - 12:00 PM
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As a writing partner and book coach, Laura B. Fox has a passion for helping wise teachers and holistic healers who have a soul-driven message create books that bring their profound insights to the world.
She has ghostwritten bestselling books on natural and spiritual living, holistic health, and self-confidence. Her life writing has been featured in Halfway Down the Stairs and The Dark Mountain Project. She is the author of The Soul-Driven Author's NonfictionBook Planning Guide and a co-author of Beyond Coincidence: Visionaries Unlock the Mysteries of Synchronicities and Success.
Laura was listed among 15 Book Coaches to Follow in 2024 in the San Francisco Examiner.
She has ghostwritten bestselling books on natural and spiritual living, holistic health, and self-confidence. Her life writing has been featured in Halfway Down the Stairs and The Dark Mountain Project. She is the author of The Soul-Driven Author's NonfictionBook Planning Guide and a co-author of Beyond Coincidence: Visionaries Unlock the Mysteries of Synchronicities and Success.
Laura was listed among 15 Book Coaches to Follow in 2024 in the San Francisco Examiner.
Gift for all attendees
Write Your Prescriptive Memoir - a mini-course
A prescriptive memoir is a book that interweaves the author's personal journey with lived wisdom, empowering readers to cultivate deeper awareness, holistic well-being, and a more harmonious existence on Earth.
In this 15 minute audio course, you will discover:
🖋️How to craft authentic stories that maximize the impact of your message
🖋️How to guide and inspire readers to make their own transformations
🖋️How to prevent blocks before you sit down to write
A prescriptive memoir is a book that interweaves the author's personal journey with lived wisdom, empowering readers to cultivate deeper awareness, holistic well-being, and a more harmonious existence on Earth.
In this 15 minute audio course, you will discover:
🖋️How to craft authentic stories that maximize the impact of your message
🖋️How to guide and inspire readers to make their own transformations
🖋️How to prevent blocks before you sit down to write
Gift for All Access Pass Holders
Not sure how much you love your working title? The perfect title for your book is within reach!
Your book's title has a big responsibility. It needs to rise to the top of searches while creating just the right intrigue, telegraph exactly who your book serves while hinting at the transformation inside, and feel utterly inevitable, all while being completely unique.
In this focused 90-minute workshop, we'll move beyond "good enough" to discover what makes a title feel utterly inevitable to those you're writing it for.
Together, we will craft book titles that balances searchability with soul. Titles that build a bridge between your deepest wisdom and your reader's searching heart.
You will master the art of the strategic subtitle based on insights into what's working in the body-mind-spirit space and what will make your book stand out.
Bring your working title, even if it's still "My Book About Healing" and leave with clarity, confidence, and quite possibly the title that will soon be printed across the cover of your book!
Your book's title has a big responsibility. It needs to rise to the top of searches while creating just the right intrigue, telegraph exactly who your book serves while hinting at the transformation inside, and feel utterly inevitable, all while being completely unique.
In this focused 90-minute workshop, we'll move beyond "good enough" to discover what makes a title feel utterly inevitable to those you're writing it for.
Together, we will craft book titles that balances searchability with soul. Titles that build a bridge between your deepest wisdom and your reader's searching heart.
You will master the art of the strategic subtitle based on insights into what's working in the body-mind-spirit space and what will make your book stand out.
Bring your working title, even if it's still "My Book About Healing" and leave with clarity, confidence, and quite possibly the title that will soon be printed across the cover of your book!
Value: 97
Laura Di Franco
Beyond the Bestseller

Laura Di Franco is the CEO of Brave Healer Productions, an award-winning publisher for holistic health, wellness, and business professionals.
Gift for all attendees
Access to the Brave Healer Resources Vault
The Brave Healer Resources Vault has thousands of dollars worth of master classes, training, and pro tips for author-entrepreneurs.
The Brave Healer Resources Vault has thousands of dollars worth of master classes, training, and pro tips for author-entrepreneurs.
Laura Fox
Memoirs that teach and self-help books that tell a story

Laura Fox is a book coach and ghostwriter serving coaches, healers, and wise teachers with a soul-driven message. She speaks on the art of combining powerful storytelling with messages of hope and healing in books that blur the lines between memoir and self-help.
Laura is the author of The Soul-Driven Author's Nonfiction Book Planning Guide
Laura is the author of The Soul-Driven Author's Nonfiction Book Planning Guide
Gift for all attendees
Write Your Prescriptive Memoir Mini-Course
In this 15 minute audio course, you will discover:
🖋️How to craft authentic stories that maximize the impact of your message
🖋️How to guide and inspire readers to make their own transformations
🖋️How to prevent blocks before you sit down to write
In this 15 minute audio course, you will discover:
🖋️How to craft authentic stories that maximize the impact of your message
🖋️How to guide and inspire readers to make their own transformations
🖋️How to prevent blocks before you sit down to write
Gift for All Access Pass Holders
The Soul-Driven Author's Nonfiction Book Planning GuideThis workbook (available in fillable pdf format or spiral bound) reveals a step-by-step process for coaches and healers looking to share their wisdom with the world.
From defining your purpose and connecting with your reader to choosing the right genre and marketing strategy, whether you self-publish, go the traditional route, or choose something in between, this book contains everything you need to know to start (and finish!) your book.
You will:
✓ Clarify your book's purpose and core message
✓ Identify your ideal reader and understand their needs and desires
✓ Choose the right genre and structure for your book
✓ Conduct market research to ensure your book stands out and reaches your target audience
✓ Create a comprehensive outline to guide your writing process
✓ Develop your authentic author voice and build confidence in your writing
Whether you've been trying to find your way into your book project for a while or the idea of becoming an author is all new to you, this guidebook will help you bring your stories and your message to life. It is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to make a big impact on the world through sharing their insights and wisdom.
Value: $23
Laura Saltman
Following Your Intuition & Building Your Self-Publishing Team

Laurin Wittig
Tales That Transform

Laurin Wittig is an intuitive energy worker, Reiki Master, Shamanic practitioner, and the founder of HeartLight Wellness and the HeartLight Women’s Circles. She also hosts the Curiously Wise: Practical Spirituality in Action podcast and is an award-winning fiction author with over 600k books sold. Most of her stories straddle the genre line between historical romance and spiritual awakening weaving the two together into what is now known as Magical Realism.
Laurin’s unconventional journey from poor health to robust wellbeing awakened her to her own healing gifts and sparked a passion to assist others to travel their paths with less pain, more joy, and a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
Laurin’s unconventional journey from poor health to robust wellbeing awakened her to her own healing gifts and sparked a passion to assist others to travel their paths with less pain, more joy, and a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
Gift for all attendees
Laurin’s Top 3 Ways to Communicate with Your Spirit Guides
A brief introduction to what spirit guides are and how to use the three tools I first learned to receive their messages.
A brief introduction to what spirit guides are and how to use the three tools I first learned to receive their messages.
Linda Ann Westman
Inside an Author-Ghostwriter Partnership

Dr. Linda Ann Westman is a chiropractic doctor who brings together practical scientific understanding with spiritual insights about healing and personal growth. Linda's approach combines her expertise in brain integration and energy work with accessible, practical wisdom about how we can create joy in our daily lives. She is passionate about helping others recognize their inherent worth and teaching them how to clear the unconscious patterns that prevent them from fully loving themselves.
Linda's understanding of human potential is grounded in both clinical experience and her own journey of learning who she is as a joy-filled being capable of inspiring happiness. As a chiropractor, she has helped thousands of people from all walks of life release old patterns and transform their lives through connecting the body, mind, and spirit. In the present book, Come Home To Yourself, she shows how we can break free from limiting beliefs.
An advocate for conscious living and personal empowerment, Linda remains actively involved in her healing community, sharing her knowledge through her writing and speaking engagements. Her work demonstrates that at any stage of life, we can create lives filled with joy, purpose, and authentic self-expression.
Linda's understanding of human potential is grounded in both clinical experience and her own journey of learning who she is as a joy-filled being capable of inspiring happiness. As a chiropractor, she has helped thousands of people from all walks of life release old patterns and transform their lives through connecting the body, mind, and spirit. In the present book, Come Home To Yourself, she shows how we can break free from limiting beliefs.
An advocate for conscious living and personal empowerment, Linda remains actively involved in her healing community, sharing her knowledge through her writing and speaking engagements. Her work demonstrates that at any stage of life, we can create lives filled with joy, purpose, and authentic self-expression.
Gift for all attendees
The first chapter of Linda's forthcoming book, Come Home to Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Creating a Joy-Filled Life Through Self-Love
Gift for All Access Pass Holders
Be one of the first to read Linda's forthcoming book Come Home to Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Creating a Joy-Filled Life Through Self Love.Lisa Tener
Embodied writing: How to Move Into Your Creative Flow

Lisa Tener is an award-winning book writing and publishing coach. Her clients have secured 5- and 6-figure book deals & won numerous book awards. She is the author of the award-winning book "Breathe. Write. Breathe.: 18 Energizing Practices to Spark Your Writing and Free Your Voice" which offers ancient mindful movement and breathing practices to access a state of creative flow at will. Its 9 book awards include the Bronze Stevie Award for "Book of the Year." Lisa’s previous book, "The Joy of Writing Journal" won 5 book awards, including the Nautilus & Ben Franklin.
Gift for all attendees
The Inspired Author Course: The 7 Day Course to Get Started on an Exceptional Nonfiction Book
The Inspired Author Course INCLUDES:
• A template for your book vision: stay inspired and engaged daily
• 7+ valuable lessons to write an excellent book—and the right book!
• A Template to Transform Any Self-Doubt into Confidence and Clarity
• Writing in the Zone meditation to consistently experience creative flow.
• Meet Your Muse meditation for focus and creative insights
• Timely writing/publishing articles, news, tips & events—straight to your inbox!
The Inspired Author Course INCLUDES:
• A template for your book vision: stay inspired and engaged daily
• 7+ valuable lessons to write an excellent book—and the right book!
• A Template to Transform Any Self-Doubt into Confidence and Clarity
• Writing in the Zone meditation to consistently experience creative flow.
• Meet Your Muse meditation for focus and creative insights
• Timely writing/publishing articles, news, tips & events—straight to your inbox!
Gift for All Access Pass Holders
Get Your Writing Done: One month of Get Your Writing Done Group Writing SessionsUp to 16 hours of writing sessions to get into an inspired flow state and write, using Lisa's prompts; includes Q&A time and laser coaching.
Come to our sessions with a specific plan or just show up and use the optional writing prompts provided by Lisa. During these sessions there will be time for setting a brief intention, getting into a flow state with Lisa's simple, empowering practices, writing (around 40-45 minutes for each hour of the call), asking questions, sharing insights and challenges, and some brief laser coaching.
• Can't make a class live?
Don't worry! New (optional) writing prompts are published weekly, so you can create your own writing session and use the optional prompts on your own at any time that works for you. You will receive a copy of The TENER Method for creative flow to help structure writing time with brief practices that induce creative flow.
Value: $247
Lori McDowell
Research, Write, Coach: How Writing Your Book Can Shape Your Expertise

Lori McDowell is a best-selling author, coach, and speaker known for her heart-led, spiritual approach to helping women redefine success and fulfillment. Through her award-winning book The Reinvention Mindset, coaching, retreats and transformative workshops, Lori guides women to overcome limitations and create lives of purpose and joy.
Gift for all attendees
From Stuck to Soaring: Five Mindset Hacks for Limitless Success
You’re capable of so much more than you realize. But maybe you’ve felt stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to reach the next level. It’s not your fault—limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns can block your success without you even knowing it.
You deserve tools that work. Tools that clear mental blocks, boost confidence, and align your goals with action.
This FREE guide, From Stuck to Soaring: 5 Mindset Hacks for Limitless Success, was created with YOU in mind. It’s time to replace overwhelm with clarity and start achieving the life you deserve.
You’re capable of so much more than you realize. But maybe you’ve felt stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to reach the next level. It’s not your fault—limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns can block your success without you even knowing it.
You deserve tools that work. Tools that clear mental blocks, boost confidence, and align your goals with action.
This FREE guide, From Stuck to Soaring: 5 Mindset Hacks for Limitless Success, was created with YOU in mind. It’s time to replace overwhelm with clarity and start achieving the life you deserve.
Gift for All Access Pass Holders
The Reinvention Mindset BundleGet this bundle to help you "reinvent" at any time. It include the online course, Secrets to the Reinvention Mindset, an autographed copy of "The Reinvention Mindset (audio or e-book for those outside n. America) and Lori's Inspirational Playlist
Value: $697.00
Lynn Tranchell
From Blog To Chapter To Book | Overcoming Writer's Block | Writing With AI

Marcy Pusey
The Value Of Telling Your Story

Mark Longhurst
Create Your Book from Content You Already Have
Friday, 26 September 2025 11:00 - 11:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
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Mark Longhurst is a writer and “ordinary mystic.” He is a member of the new monastic “Community of the Incarnation." A former pastor, he served United Church of Christ churches for ten years and worked as a faith-based social justice activist in the Boston area for ten more. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a longtime yoga practitioner, Mark lives in western Massachusetts with his family.
Gift for all attendees
Free subscription to Mark's Substack
As a thank-you for joining this speaker series, Mark's offering a curated subscription to his Substack, The Holy Ordinary. When you subscribe at marklonghurst.substack.com, you’ll receive regular essays, reflections, and spiritual practices that he doesn’t promote anywhere else — direct to your inbox. Your free subscription will include a special welcome post for event subscribers.
As a thank-you for joining this speaker series, Mark's offering a curated subscription to his Substack, The Holy Ordinary. When you subscribe at marklonghurst.substack.com, you’ll receive regular essays, reflections, and spiritual practices that he doesn’t promote anywhere else — direct to your inbox. Your free subscription will include a special welcome post for event subscribers.
These are some of the books summit speakers have mentioned in their talks, some of my favorite books they've written, and books that soul-driven authors will find inspiring and useful. Enjoy!
Pull Back Your Power: The ground-breaking code to unlocking profound confidence and soaring success for aspirational women