If you'd like me to speak at your online conference

I receive many invites to participate at online or virtual conferences. I do not accept if any of the following apply:

• If the conference charges for attendance but does not pay speakers
• If the conference pays speakers only through affiliate marketing arrangements
• If the conference is free for people to attend live, does not pay speakers, then retains rights to sell the material after the event is over

If you're running an online conference and you directly pay speakers, you're welcome to reach out. Please let me know:

• your anticipated or past attendance for the event
• registration fees (if any)
• where the sessions will be available
• how long you expect to make the sessions available.

If you'd like me to teach a webinar

I actively teach online with organizations such as Writer's Digest, Authors Guild, Inked Voices, and Creative Nonfiction, among others. If you'd like to partner on a webinar (or you might call them online or virtual workshops), keep reading.

Webinars are live, one-time events that last 1-2 hours. Usually they're recorded so that registrants can watch again or so that people don't have to be attend live unless they want to.

On my own, I offer about two dozen paid webinars per year that attract between 100-600 students per session. I bring in roughly $10,000 for every webinar I self-host, which is a nice payday, but there is a drawback to hosting my own sessions: It requires a considerable amount of administration, customer service, marketing, and post-production work.

If I teach a webinar for or in partnership with another organization, I'm considering two important factors: (1) whether I'm competing against my own offerings, and (2) if I'm gaining the advantage of showing up to teach without the burden of administration, customer service, and so on. How much I market the session will depend on whether I'm incentivized to do so financially and if the partner organization invites the general public to register and not just members or subscribers.

I can only teach a webinar in partnership with you if the following criteria are met:

• I keep all rights to the material.
• The recording is made available only to paid registrants and not distributed on social media or through a website.
• The recording should not be sold a la carte or as part of a membership after the fact.

Whether you charge for the webinar, how much you charge, and whom you allow to register—all that is up to your organization. That said, for webinars carrying a registration fee, pricing for my sessions is commonly between $25 and $149.