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Keynotes, Workshops, Panel Presentations
Beckstrand presents keynotes, workshops, author panels, and seminar sessions of 50–110 minutes for schools, universities, conferences, literacy organizations, businesses, and community groups. All sessions can be adapted as panels with advanced notice and are available in English or Spanish. Organizations may offset the speaker fee with a qualifying book order.
Getting Your Book to the World
The pros and cons of traditional, self-, and e-publishing (including print-on-demand); finding editors, designers, and agents; and reaching a global audience using today’s media. Practical, experience-based, and adapted for fiction or nonfiction writers at any stage.
Telling True Stories: Successful Nonfiction
How to identify your core message and gather, shape, and share it in a way that grabs and influences readers. Covers memoir, biography, family history, immigrant narratives, and nonfiction for adults and young readers.
Reading, Language & Multicultural Storytelling
How narratives build vocabulary, empathy, communication skills, and cultural understanding. Drawing on 30+ published titles featuring ethnically, physically, and spiritually diverse characters.
Creativity, Curriculum & Learning Through the Arts
Ten ways to inspire learners through narrative arts, visual expression, performance, food, and culture. Practical activities for educators, parents, and community leaders. Includes: The Quality Time Myth — Ten Together Activities for Healthful Learning.
Writing for Media: News, Press Releases & Scripts
AP style, inverted pyramid structure, headlines and leads that get attention, and libel basics — plus script formats for radio, television, film, ads, and the web. Practical guidance for marketing, PR, and media professionals.
Making Habit Work for You
How small, consistent daily actions — practiced without fail — can replace ingrained patterns and produce lasting achievement. Drawing on true stories of personal reinvention and Beckstrand’s own experience.
Entrepreneurship & Finding Your Gifts
Examining your life for passions and strengths, shaping your unique contribution, assembling a team, and building an organization or body of work that serves the broader community. Includes business start-up resources and Q&A.
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For speaking inquiries, publishing consultation, media interviews, or a free 20-minute conversation about your creative or publishing goals, reach out below.
Se habla español. Beckstrand también ofrece consultas y presentaciones en español.
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