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What I Learned Selling Burgers and Blush

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Key Objectives

  • Identify ambassadors for your book and give them tools to help them help you
  • Know your target (reader) and take aim
  • Make a detailed plan early and get help executing it

Event Type: retreat

Description

Museum of Science and Industry, before she published her first book, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America. Listen as she shares the pro tips that turned her debut book into a bestseller.

Tamara Winfrey-Harris – 2021

Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a writer and speaker who specializes in the ever-evolving space where current events, politics and pop culture intersect with race and gender. Tamara has been published in media outlets, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. Tamara’s first book, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (2015) and called “a myth-busting portrait of Black women in America” by The Washington Post. Her sophomore effort Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power debuted in March 2021. Tamara also has more than two decades of communications and marketing experience, providing counsel to consumer brands, arts institutions and not-for-profits.

More information can be found at tamarawinfreyharris.com