Every business owner, artist, author and entrepreneur MUST network, connect, speak and communicate with other people, no matter how you might feel about public speaking. Let’s make it easier. Join us for our next “lunch and learn” session to help you become more comfortable in public speaking.
Read MoreWe’re on the road once more! We’ll see you at the Texas Storytelling Festival 2019! Denton, Texas, March 7-10. We’ve got a workshop, books for sale (duh!) and Sean will be offering private coaching at a great price.
Read MoreVideo: Illustrator Michelle Buvala from “Mesquite Tree Studio” unboxes the first shipment of copies of The Fox and the Crow: Art and Stories Inspired by Aesop.” This book is a cooperative project with Sean Buvala. Sean, by the way, is responsible for the shaky camera. :-).
Read MoreLooking forward to seeing you at the Tucson Festival of Books 2019, March 2 and 3, in Tucson, Arizona. We will have three authors and illustrators at this event, show-special pricing on all the books. They’ll be freebie book swag like buttons, bookmarks, and posters until we run out. Our staff will be signing it all if you wish. Come find us at our various locations!
Read MoreSean Buvala talks about how Laura Packer’s New book is like taking part in one of those “pick my brain” sessions with an expert in the field of oral storytelling and public speaking. Short video:
Read MoreLearn More about our upcoming Indie Author’s Mindset Conference, training held in spring 2020, in Avondale Arizona.
Read More“Award-winning storyteller Laura S. Packer gives storytellers, and for that matter, artists in many other genres, a powerful understanding of not just the ABC’s of storytelling, but of how to live a more vibrant and creative life. This wildly-wide-reaching book explores the inner and outer work of crafting stories (and the stories of our lives) in tune with our passions, callings, communities, and livelihoods.”
Read More“It was so important to me that…that I neither shield my audience from the depth and rigor of what it is to be a good storyteller nor do I present it in such a way that they feel like it’s never attainable, that they can’t reach it.” ::: Author and Storyteller Laura S. Packer is the creator of “From Audience to Zeal: The ABCs of Finding, Crafting, and Telling a Great Story.” Part 3: Laura Packer and Sean Buvala discuss the nature of Laura’s new book. They talk about the need to create an “invite” for the reader. They discuss the nature of how stories are used for bonding people’s lives together in the midst of a real-life lab(rador) in the office. Woof. Part 3 of 8. Learn more at audiencetozeal.com.
Read MoreIn these days of too much screen time, a journal can help your kids find some balance in their communication choices. Journal writing is an incredible activity for kids. It’s especially good for young people that have a hard time expressing things orally or those that are reluctant to write as a “school assignment.”
Read MoreHey Folks! We’re at the Mesa Book Festival this weekend, Saturday, December 8th, 2018 in downtown Mesa, Arizona. We’ve got a small handful of new books that will make great gifts for the authors, artists, poets, and storytellers in your life.
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