Welcome to The Soul-Driven Author Summit
September 24-26, 2025
Mary Gooden
Working With A Done-For-You Publisher
MaryCatherine McDonald
Transform Your Academic Work For Non-Academic Readers
Melanie Herschorn
Your Book as a Business Asset
Known for helping business owners become bestselling authors and get positioned as experts, Melanie Herschorn wants to help you step into your spotlight as an authority. As a publisher and book marketing strategist, she’s on a mission to empower new authors to make an impact and grow their income with their signature book.
Gift for all attendees
The Ultimate Book Marketing Checklist
Want to get your book in the hands of as many people as possible? Grab this book marketing checklist to make sure you are using every marketing tool available to you when promoting your book and growing your audience. You will get:
-clarity on what to expect
-organized with your book marketing plan
-guidance to develop a lead magnet
Want to get your book in the hands of as many people as possible? Grab this book marketing checklist to make sure you are using every marketing tool available to you when promoting your book and growing your audience. You will get:
-clarity on what to expect
-organized with your book marketing plan
-guidance to develop a lead magnet
Gift for All Access Pass Holders
The Profitable Book Marketing Plan WorkshopIn this workshop, you will:
-Map out the 5 steps of your unique book marketing plan.
-Outline your customized plan to use a blueprint for your marketing your book.
-Discover how to cut through the overwhelm and stress of marketing your book and instead feel more confident and prepared as you build your visibility, credibility and sales.
Value: $47.00
Mila Johansen
You don't have to put it all in one book
Mila Johansen is a writing, publishing, and public speaking coach She is the best-selling author of twelve books, including, The Cinderella Monologues and From Cowgirl to Congress: Journey of a Suffragist on the Front Lines. She has developed “The Short Book” concept, giving people worldwide permission to write and publish their “short book” first. She is also the inventor of the Modular Book concept—creating up to 5 books from the Short Book. She is helping people write and publish their books, making the process easy and accessible. Mila also helps companies, cities, and towns to create anthologies of local stories to help promote communities. She loves to work in any genre including business books as lead magnets, novels, anthologies, and cookbooks, making people's dreams of becoming published authors come true.
Gift for all attendees
101 Surprising Tips to Promote Your Book
How and when to build hype for your book using all the resources available to you. Social media, public speaking, ads, websites, blogs, emails. This book takes you through the entire process giving you tons of secrets and tips.
How and when to build hype for your book using all the resources available to you. Social media, public speaking, ads, websites, blogs, emails. This book takes you through the entire process giving you tons of secrets and tips.
Gift for All Access Pass Holders
Tour of Front and Back End of Amazon Publishing and All the Free AttributesA complete tour of the front end and the back end of KDP, Amazon's publishing arm and all of the amazing attributes that are available to you. It's just like a website and easy to navigate. And you receive a list of everything. Tips and Tricks. Amazon gives you for free a front Page that you easily build on the back end.
Value: $97.00
Mila Johansen
Talk About Your Book on Podcasts, Summits, and More
Wednesday, 24 September 2025 11:00 - 11:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
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Mila Johansen is a writing, publishing, and public speaking coach She is the best-selling author of twelve books. She has developed “The Short Book” concept, giving people worldwide permission to write and publish their “short book” first. She loves to encourage writers to improve their public speaking techniques so they can speak about their books on podcasts, summits, and in person. Mila's grandmother taught Eleanor Roosevelt public speaking along with 1,000s of other women. Mila speaks 1-3 times a week about her books and coaching programs.
Gift for all attendees
Ten Tips to Rock Every Speech You Make
Ten Tips to help you build confidence, polish your speaking abilities, and rock any speech or interview you do.
Ten Tips to help you build confidence, polish your speaking abilities, and rock any speech or interview you do.
Milo Shapiro
Public Speaking for Authors
In 2000, Milo left fifteen years in Information Technology to apply his then-ten-year passion − improvisation − to business practices and professional development. His teambuilding program, “TEAMprovising”, creates team connectedness, improved communication and boosted innovation through improv games. As a profession conference speaker, his interactive motivational speeches have delighted Southwest Airlines, Minolta, General Dynamics, Kodak, Pfizer, Qualcomm, the US Navy, and more. After repeated requests from audience members, Milo launched the coaching side of his business in 2004: “Public Dynamics. He has worked with hundreds one-on-one (thousands if you count keynote audiences) to move them past fear and awkwardness in speaking to being more "Prepared, Polished, and Powerful". Readers can learn from his two books, "Public Speaking: Get A's, Not Zzzzzz's!" and its Young Adult sequel "Public Speaking for TEENS: Get A's, Not Zzzzzz's!" which hit #2 on Amazon.
Milo is San Diego based, but works with clients worldwide via Zoom and travels as need be for his keynote programs and teambuilding to share his "seriously funny lessons".
Learn more at www.MiloShapiro.com.
Milo is San Diego based, but works with clients worldwide via Zoom and travels as need be for his keynote programs and teambuilding to share his "seriously funny lessons".
Learn more at www.MiloShapiro.com.
Naomi Vladeck
Allowing Creativity In Your Writing
Pam Montgomery
Nurture Your Book Into Being
Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, author, international teacher, Earth elder and new-paradigm thinker who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. She is the author of two books one of which is the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. Her latest book, Co-Creating with Nature, will be published in the spring of 2025. She teaches internationally and virtually on plant initiations, spiritual ecology and co-creative partnership with Nature. She is the founder of the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE and was a founding board member of United Plant Savers.
Gift for all attendees
Essentials of Co-Creative Partnership: Connection to Nature Unlocks Creativity
Co-creative partnership is just as the words indicate; being an equal partner where the members create together to bring about balanced manifestation.
This conscious act of partnering with Nature brings about a union of form and spirit where all life can thrive. Co-creative partnership is not a technique but a way of life that we all carry within us.
Embedded in our cells is the memory of a time when we lived close to Earth.
During the time before we left Nature we wouldn’t dream of doing harm to that which is the source of our sustenance. But a deep amnesia has taken over and we have forgotten how to live in co-creative partnership with Earth and all her beings.
The separation from Nature that this amnesia has created is resulting in some very big challenging, changing times.
It is imperative that we begin to wake-up and remember that we are actually kin to Nature and together we can create a world where all of life thrives. During this slide presentation we will continue our journey of remembrance as I shine light on some of the components that make for a dynamic partnership with Nature.
Join me in discovering the Essentials of Co-Creative Partnership and start rebuilding your connection to Nature.
Co-creative partnership is just as the words indicate; being an equal partner where the members create together to bring about balanced manifestation.
This conscious act of partnering with Nature brings about a union of form and spirit where all life can thrive. Co-creative partnership is not a technique but a way of life that we all carry within us.
Embedded in our cells is the memory of a time when we lived close to Earth.
During the time before we left Nature we wouldn’t dream of doing harm to that which is the source of our sustenance. But a deep amnesia has taken over and we have forgotten how to live in co-creative partnership with Earth and all her beings.
The separation from Nature that this amnesia has created is resulting in some very big challenging, changing times.
It is imperative that we begin to wake-up and remember that we are actually kin to Nature and together we can create a world where all of life thrives. During this slide presentation we will continue our journey of remembrance as I shine light on some of the components that make for a dynamic partnership with Nature.
Join me in discovering the Essentials of Co-Creative Partnership and start rebuilding your connection to Nature.
Peggy Sealfon
Weaving Your Message Into Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Q&A Friday
Friday Q&A w/ Jackie Lapin, Anna Fox, DeShaun Williams, Eric Lincoln Miller, Sue Muller Hacking & Elisa Boogaerts
Learn valuable insights from our speakers!
Watch or listen to the recording of our panel of expert book coaches, publishers and authors tackling the audience's burning questions regarding writing and publishing one's book.
Watch or listen to the recording of our panel of expert book coaches, publishers and authors tackling the audience's burning questions regarding writing and publishing one's book.
Q&A Thursday
Thursday Q&A w/ Sue Hacking, Randy Peyser, Jules Hare, Lisa Tener & Laura di Franco
Learn valuable insights from our speakers!
Watch or listen to the recording of our panel of expert book coaches, publishers and authors tackling the audience's burning questions regarding writing and publishing one's book.
Watch or listen to the recording of our panel of expert book coaches, publishers and authors tackling the audience's burning questions regarding writing and publishing one's book.
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
It's a Great Time to Write a Book!: Why the World Needs Your Wisdom Now
Thursday, 25 September 2025 10:00 - 10:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
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Award-winning author of over 36 books on spirituality and religion, Contributing Editor and columnist with Spirituality & Health Magazine, writer Ask Rabbi Rami newsletter on Substack.
Gift for all attendees
PDF of as yet unpublished book titled "Gospel of Sophia"
This is an anthology of teachings on the Divine Feminine from different religious traditions. Rabbi Rami can send it to you via email: rabbirami@gmail.com.
This is an anthology of teachings on the Divine Feminine from different religious traditions. Rabbi Rami can send it to you via email: rabbirami@gmail.com.
Randy Peyser
Get Your Book Pitch Ready
Randy Peyser edits and ghostwrites books and gets authors book deals with literary agents and publishers. Her clients have been featured on Hallmark TV and Daily Mail TV, in Oprah Magazine and Time Magazine, on the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Lists, in airport bookstores and FedEx/Office and Office Max stores, and more. She is the author of Crappy to Happy as featured in the movie, “Eat Pray Love”; The Power of Miracle Thinking; and The Write-a-Book Program. www.AuthorOneStop.com.
"If you look up the word 'savvy' in the dictionary, a picture of Randy appears!" - David Tyreman, branding strategist for Ralph Lauren and author of World Famous
"If you look up the word 'savvy' in the dictionary, a picture of Randy appears!" - David Tyreman, branding strategist for Ralph Lauren and author of World Famous
Gift for all attendees
Consultation - Complimentary, 15 minutes: Is your book commercially viable?
Find out if your book or book idea is one that publishers might want to buy. Learn the best positioning for your book to get a book deal with a publisher!
Find out if your book or book idea is one that publishers might want to buy. Learn the best positioning for your book to get a book deal with a publisher!
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
The 2025 Spiritual Business Playbook: Marketing Trends for Sacred Success
Come Home to Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Creating a Joy-Filled Life Through Self-Love
Change Your Life with Self-Confidence: Introducing The Confidence Method