Speaking Your Brand: Public Speaking Tips and Strategies26 Aug 2024

407: Building Your Speaking Platform as an Author (Even If You're an Introvert!) with Tiffany Hawk

As a speaker, writing a book gives you additional authority and credibility.

Event organizers love speakers who have books because it shows that the speaker understands their material.

But, how do you know what's a good idea for an entire book?

On the flip side, if you're an author and public speaking isn't something you're jumping up and down to do, how can you build your platform to include speaking, even if you're an introvert?

My guest is my book coach Tiffany Hawk, who is a published author and who runs the Breakthrough Book Proposal Program.

Tiffany and I talk about:

Her journey from reluctant to charismatic speaker as a result of attending our in-person retreat
What makes a good idea for a book
Why you shouldn’t write the book that you can write in your sleep
How authors can build their platform, particularly around speaking, even if you’re an introvert (like us!)
How speakers can build authority for their book proposal to attract agents and publishers
A sneak peek of the online workshop this fall and an in-person retreat in the spring that Tiffany and I will be hosting together

About My Guest: Tiffany Hawk is an author and book coach who helps leaders write agent-ready books and book proposals. Her clients have landed literary agents, traditionally published with big New York Presses and small literary presses, self published, won awards, and seen their stories in places like Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, Narratively, McSweeney’s, and The Atlantic.

Links:

Show notes at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/407/

Tiffany’s website: https://www.tiffanyhawk.com/

Get Tiffany’s free resource “How good is your book idea?” = https://www.tiffanyhawk.com/idea/

Discover your Speaker Archetype by taking our free quiz at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/quiz/

Attend our 1-day Speaking for Impact in-person workshop in Orlando on October 10th: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/workshop/

Enroll in our Thought Leader Academy: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/academy/

Connect on LinkedIn:

Carol Cox = https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolcox
Tiffany Hawk (guest) = https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanyhawk/

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