Udemy - Author Media Training: How to Promote Your Book in the Media

How to look comfortable and confident on TV, create media messages, answer reporters' questions and speak in sound bites

Imagine becoming a regular fixture on the talk show circuit and in the national media as a well-known author. Writing a good book isn't easy, but getting in front of enough people to generate buzz and demand for your books can be even harder. This Media Training for Authors course will teach you step-by-step how to prepare for media interviews. Specifically, you will learn how to look good on TV, how to frame a media message, how to answer reporters' questions and how to speak in sound bites.

If you want to sell a lot of books, you will need to be able to sell your ideas and your expertise to the public through regular media appearances. You can begin learning how to master the media right now in this comprehensive, interactive course.

TJ Walker is a media trainer with 30 years of experience as a media coach to best-selling authors, experts, CEOs, Presidents of countries, Prime Ministers, and Nobel Peace Prize winners. Walker is also the author of the USA Today #1 Bestseller "Secret to Foolproof Presentations" (also a Business Week and Wall Street Journal Bestseller). Walker once set the Guinness book of World Records for most talk show appearances ever in a 24 our period (104) while promoting one of his public speaking books.

The course also features three bonus interviews with book publishing legend Dan Poynter.
What are the requirements?

Students will need to video record themselves using a cell phone or webcam

What am I going to get from this course?

Over 121 lectures and 12 hours of content!
Create media messages promoting your book
Answer reporters's questions about yur book
Speak in sound bites
Become a valuable source to the media

What is the target audience?

Authors
Aspiring authors
Anyone promoting a book through the media