Webinars / Seminars

Besides my Write Your Book in 8 Days Retreat I also offer seminars at a variety of locations as well routine webinars.

Webinars

Tom offers webinars in one of two ways.

First, he does occassionally offer a FREE webinar to the general public. To find out more teh next FREE webinar, click on the FREE CLASS button on the homepage to this site.

Please keep in mind when considering one of Tom's FREE webinars that they usually sell out very quickly, so, if you are interested in attending one, it is important that you sign up quickly.

Secondly, through Tom's online author's community and curriculum WriteNOW! he offers a variety of monthly webinars designed to offer members a well rounded understanding and education of everything they need to know as authors.

To find out more about this option, click on the WriteNOW! button on his homepage.

Seminars

Over the last quarter of a century, Tom has made over 3500 lecture appearances at over 100 different colleges and universities. And even though he presently tends to stay closer to home and offer teachings more consistently through the internet and other sources, he still ventures out onto the road occasionally.

As a general rule, he usually offers the following two classes on either the same day or on consecutive days at the universities and colleges.

He usually begins with You Were Born To Be Published: Nine Laws for Getting Your Writing into Print NOW! because he knows that if you understand the viability of getting published, you’re more likely to complete your manuscript. He then moves on to You Were Born to Write: Complete Your Book in 30 Days or Less by Mastering the Inner Game of Writing, during which he explains in detail his method, which you will use to visualize, plan, and complete your book.

Both of his seminars are designed to impart volumes of information as quickly as possible. Each class packs a full day’s worth of wisdom into a three-to-five hour time frame.

The average student who attends my seminar has never written a book, but upon applying his proven methods usually completes the writing of his or her first book, working only in their spare time, in an average of 27 days. These courses offer you everything you need to become a published author NOW!

Here is a listing and website addresses of some of the locals at which Tom routinely appears. To get an up-to-date listing of exactly where he will be and when, please sign up to for his free newsletter, which he uses to update aspiring authors on exactly where he will be appearing and when.

Please Note: Each college or university handles their own registration for MY classes. The following is a list of website addresses.

Chandler-Gilbert CC: www.cgc.maricopa.edu
Emory University: www.emory.edu
EMesa CC: www.mc.maricopa.edu/communityed
Paradise Valley CC: www.paradisevalley.edu/ce
University of New Mexico: www.unm.edu
University of Tennessee/Knoxville: www.outreach.utk.edu/ppd

Webinar/Class Schedule for this Month

 Here is my teaching/webinar schedule, at the present time, for this month. Keep your eyes open for more though, for I have a few other offerings that I will be sending along your way, including the Pitch Nights I wrote you about last week and a one-of-a-kind webinar that will enable you to go deeper into your motivation and connection to write than ever before. So as I mentioned, keep your eyes open for more news on these exciting offerings.

Just in case you didn’t have the opportunity to read up on my description of what a Pitch Night is in last newsletter or you didn’t have the chance to attend one last spring, a Pitch Nights constitutes when I bring Rick Frishman and David Hancock, of Morgan James Publishers, on a webinar and aspiring authors like you receive the opportunity to pitch your books live to the duo right on the air. No need to go through a literary agent. With my Pitch Nights, you can go directly to the source.

Last spring Morgan James offered eight aspiring authors, via Pitch Nights, to have the opportunity to have their work considered by them for publication. Through the innovative system of publishing that they have spearheaded, which has actually taken one author from submission of his book to New York Times Best Seller List in 92 days, two of those authors’ books have already been published.

Rick and David have committed to doing two Pitch Nights a month. More on this later when I get back to you on the exact dates and times for the Pitch Nights for this month.

You will note on the following schedule that some the classes/webinars that are listed are open to the general public, while others are open to Write Now members only. If you would like to know more about Write Now you can click on http://writeyourbookin8days.com/community-member.asp.

As you will see from the above description, you can try Write Now for one free month one time without having to make an obligation to purchase a one year subscription at less than $10 a month, or, if you would prefer, you can secure a membership one month at a time at $29 a month. There is plenty you get with your membership, outside of just the ability to attend presentations specifically meant for members, so you may want to check this out.

As you will see, not only do you receive admittance into members only classes and webinars, but you are emailed copies of my last two books and my three subliminal CDs. In addition, you are guaranteed the lowest advertised price on any products or services you may purchase. Also, you will receive exclusive access to my entire collection of webinars from this year. This will be posted on my site over the next few weeks.

Here’s how it works when joining Write Now.

You go to http://writeyourbookin8days.com/community-member.asp and sign up with a credit card, which will not be charged for your trial month. If you then decide that Write Now is not write (oops) for you, drop my webmaster Jan an email at jan@jbcr-virtualsolutions.com and in the subject line of the email put the words ‘not right for me.’ In the email tell Jan that you do not want to continue with your membership beyond your trial month. As long as your email is received by Jan before the end of your trial month your credit card will not be charged the $119 for a discounted one year membership. Or, as I mentioned, you can sign up for Write Now on a month-to-month basis for $29 a month. It’s that easy.

So anyway, here is what is on the schedule so far, but keep your eyes open for the other webinars and classes that I will be offering this month.

Thursday, February 4, 2010, 5-6 MST, WRITE ON MEMBERS ONLY – PART I - A BRAND NEW SYSTEM FOR FINDING EXACTLY THE RIGHT LITERARY AGENT TO REPRESENT YOUR BOOK. Through this special one time, online class will be able to share with you, a brand new system, which I have designed that will enable you to find exactly both the perfect literary agent and editor at a publishing house for your book. Not only will I share with you how to find them but also how to attract them to you. If getting your book published conventionally is your dream, you won’t want to miss this class.

Friday and Saturday, February 5 & 6, 2010, University of New Mexico – GET YOUR BOOK WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN 30 DAY, $150, Call 505-277-0077, Extension 1 to register.

Monday, February  8, 2010, 5-7 MST, $99, SPECIAL QUERY LETTER WRITING AND SUBMISSION CLASS – RESULTS GUARANTEED. Want to land a literary agent? If so, you don’t want to miss my class on Monday, February 8, 2010, when I will be offering a special query letter writing and submission class where I will actually review your query letter for you, right online, and give you the advice you need before you submit it. To learn more about this class, visit http://writeyourbookin8days.com/landtheagent.asp . Only two spaces remain available at this time.

Thursday, February 11, 2010, 5:30-6:30 MST, WRITE ON MEMBERS ONLY – PART II – A BRAND NEW SYSTEM FORFINDING EXACTLY THE RIGHT AGENT TO REPRESENT YOUR BOOK.  I will review your homework from Part I and make any final alterations and/or additions to your approach, which will allow you to go out and get exactly the agent that you really want.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 6-9:30 MST, $19, Paradise Valley Community College – EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO GET PUBLISHED. This class has been sold out for weeks. However, the college will be offering a second section, so if you would like to be one of the first to be put on their waiting list, give them a call at 602-787-7000.

Thursday, February 18, 2010, 5:30-6:30 MST, WRITE ON MEMBERS ONLY – THE QUEEN OF POD.  Having possibly formatted more books than any single person in the history of Print-on-Demand, Jamie Saloff is simply known as the Queen. In this one hour Jamie will cover everything you need to know and thus consider about taking this innovative route to publishing with your book.

Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5:30-6:30 MST, WRITE ON MEMBERS ONLY – OPEN Q & A WITH TOM. Having a question on anything to do with publishing or writing, this is your chance to toss them at me. To have your questions considered, email them to me at TomBird@TomBird.com and then tune in live to hear the answers.  Make sure to put in the subject line of your email Question(s) for February 24.

Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9-11 MST, WRITE ON MEMBERS $19, ALL OTHERS $39 – EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO GET YOUR BOOK WRITTEN … AND IN AS LITTLE AS 30 DAYS. Are ideas continually streaming into your mind, crying to be released? Are people constantly telling you that you should write a book? When you look at a best seller list, does a part of you scan it to see if your name is on it? Is writing a book something that you either need or want to do but have no idea about how to go about it efficiently, quickly and joyfully? If you answered “yes” to any of the above, this class was specially designed for you. Through it, you will learn everything you need to know to get your book written in the easiest, fastest and most successful way possible. If you feel as if you have a book crying to get out of you, you don’t want to miss this class. As part of your fee, you will receive a downloadable version of my book You Were Born to Write and a downloadable version of my subliminal CD, a surefire way to cure writer’s block, Transitioning Back to the Author You Were Meant to be.

Members click here to register.

Non-Members click here to register

Remember to keep your eyes open for the emails I will be sending this month on the Pitch Nights and other webinars I will be offering.

March 6-14, Sedona, AZ
Write Your Book in 8 Days Retreat

Last retreat, the forty students in attendance collectively completed forty-five books and had over 1200 literary agents interested in potentially representing their books. If you would like to experience the same results with you writing, consider attending my next retreat in Sedona from March 6-14 or my June gathering from the 11th-20th.

To see what discounts you qualify for and thus to save up to 60% off of the regular price, or jus to explore whether the retreat would be right for you or not, drop me an email at TomBird@TomBird.com or call my office at 928-203-0265 to set up a free, introductory, 20 minute interview.

If You Can’t Make It to Sedona for A Retreat But Would Still Like the Same Results
              

Even though I consider my Write Your Book in 8 Days Retreat my finest offering, for those of you who can’t visit Sedona for a retreat, I have established a brand new form of working with students on a group/individual basis, which you may want to consider. This offering is fast too. By using it you can get your book written and literary agents swarming to potentially represent it in 30 days.  To learn more, call my office at 928-203-0265 or drop me an email at: TomBird@TomBird.com.