Bestselling & award-winning author Aaron Ryan is also a longtime speaker, panelist and workshop leader at some of the largest conferences around for both authoring and voiceovers, including Norwescon, Seattle Worldcon, VO Atlanta, OneVoice, Doxacon, and dozens of independent businesses and churches since 1995.
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Through a fun, engaging and memorable style, Aaron teaches on the following topics:
Properly writing and structuring Your Novel
- Format: 60-120 minute keynote, workshop, breakout session
- This program is perfect for New authors seeking how to write a book well and New or seasoned authors seeking how to finalize their book and prepare for publishing
- The audience will leave with: Improved writing style, Increased confidence in their role as the author, ways to reach more readers
- You’re just a voice in the choir, right? WRONG. As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” So be unique and learn how to fearlessly write a book that is unique, compelling, exciting, and possibly, eventually a bestseller!
From Hobby To Enterprise
- Format: 120 minute workshop
- This program is perfect for: All those entrepreneurs who feel trapped in a hobby, and those aspiring souls who desperately want to take their hobby and turn it into an enterprise but lack the acumen or information needed in order to structure an ecosystem around themselves as a vehicle to make their hobby a profitable one
- The audience will leave with: Tangible tips, strategies, goal-setting ideas and monitoring software to track progress, The knowledge of how important quotes, mantras, mission statements, and everything else is to actually run a business well.
- Aaron has provided dozens of workshops over the years on properly turning your hobby into an enterprise with a focus on excellent business administration. You CAN take a hobby and transform it into something profitable that begins to develop business revenue instead of hobby bucks.
Adapt & Overcome
- Format: 60 minute keynote, workshop, breakout, etc..
- This program is perfect for: Any established or aspiring sole proprietors or entrepreneurs who are facing challenges in their industry and desire to break free from the mold, pursue new goals and aims, and move forward, and anyone desiring to adapt and overcome
- The audience will leave with: Ways to self-analyze, Skills to assess the marketplace and determine what else you can bring, Realization that you have a UNIQUE voice and talent skill set that can benefit others – you just need to find the arena to do it in
- “Adapt and overcome.” “Adapt or die.” We’ve all heard those phrases. They’re around because they’re true! We MUST adapt. We MUST find ways to break free from the mold, to figure out what our next steps are, and how we can survive and thrive in an ever-changing world where nothing is truly secure or permanent.
Creative Marketing for the Self-Published Author
- Format: 60-120 minute keynote, workshop, or breakout session
- This program is perfect for: Aspiring and seasoned authors looking to up their creative marketing game and established literary agents seeking to understand what self-published authors need
- The audience will leave with: Creative ways to expand marketing and tools, tips and tricks to get your book in front of buyers
- Aaron sold 5500 books through self-publishing in 2024 alone. His witty and creative styles and methods of engagement draw in crowds. As a storyteller, he’s captivating and attention-getting.
Steps to Successful Self-Publishing / How to Approach an Agent
- Format: 60-120 minute [keynote, workshop, breakout sessions
- This program is perfect for: Self-published authors seeking info on how to successfully self-publish and self-published authors seeking info on how to approach a literary agent
- The audience will leave with: Proper steps and pitfalls to avoid in self-publishing, Steps to launch your book successfully and Ways to approach agents to get yourself, and your book, noticed
- Rise above the noise. Agents are approached all the time by those desiring representation. Learn to set yourself apart from the herd – and get heard!
Thanks for your interest!