Todd Fahnestock Keynote Speaker for Awards Presentation
Every person attending the celebration will receive Todd’s key strategies.
Todd’s books regularly appear on Amazon Bestseller lists
Todd has figured out how to sell in the new marketplace. His books regularly land on bestseller lists and he takes a many pronged approach to creating that success.
Todd talks Amazon, ebooks, author investment and how writers make their own luck (read create an advantage) when he delivers the keynote to CAL authors.
His strategies have a familiar ring. Todd shows writers how to use newsletters, emails, and elevator pitches in a way that makes sense.
Todd parents gave him a start at viewing life at different angles. His sign painter dad bestowed a herculean work ethic on Todd while his mother gave him magic. That combination works for a fantasy writer. Reading became his retreat when his parents divorced.
Like many writers, Todd’s checkered job history provides a rich backdrop of experience for his writing. Jumping from job to job, he hitchhiked across the country. From Price Club cashier to video arcade attendant to investment banking every job offered a new learning experience. He waited tables, hung safety cables for crack-inspection teams inside oil tankers, and helped raise millions of dollars for diabetes nonprofits. He lived in cities and towns across America as he learned from each experience.
Todd talks about finding how authors can find their audience and within that wide group, their superfans.
Todd looks at the tools available for marketing and encourages writers to use the tools that work best. There are ways to make choices within social media and other popular communication venues.
Todd says his kids are a constant source of inspiration. Now both teenagers, he’s become fascinated with the alternative language he hears his kids and their friends speak (he calls it slanglift) and has started to keep a dictionary to keep up with words like Yeet—An all-purpose utterance for moments of disgust, and phrases like ‘My soul would depart my body’—That’s gross.
In Todd’s Threadweaver’s Series, Todd invites readers to “Become a threadweaver in the lands of the mythical hero Wildmane, where reading is a crime and using magic could mean your death.”
In Todd’s Whisper Prince Series he challenges readers to “Flip up your cowl and step into the deadly city of Fairmist, where droplets of water hover in the air and danger stalks between the trees.”
In Todd’s The Wishing World Series he invites readers to “Make a wish and visit The Wishing World, where children become their own heroes.”
In Todd’s Charlie Fiction Series he invites readers to “Jump through time, trade banter with a sexy, cynical ghost, and try to stop the end of the world in Charlie Fiction