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Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck

a Custom Pitch Dec to This 10-slide pitch deck gives self-publishing authors the professional edge they need to get producers to take their book seriously.

$149

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Show event organizers the speaker, message, and audience experience behind your book.

Receive a professionally written and designed Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck that transforms the ideas, expertise, and experiences behind your book into a compelling presentation for event organizers, conference planners, organizations, and other potential hosts.

Custom Deck
Built around you and your book
Speaking Topics
Clear presentation ideas
Audience Value
Why your message matters
Speaker Positioning
Experience and credibility
Professional Design
Ready to share

Use your deck to pursue keynotes, workshops, panels, author talks, virtual presentations, community programs, and other appropriate speaking opportunities.

SPEAKING & PRESENTATIONS

Turn Your Book into a Speaking Platform

Your book can do more than introduce readers to your ideas. It can become the foundation for presentations, conversations, workshops, and other programs that allow you to share your message directly with an audience.

THINK LIKE AN EVENT ORGANIZER

Give Them a Reason to Put You on the Program

Potential hosts need more than an author biography or book description. They need to understand what you can talk about, who your presentation is for, what audiences may take away from it, and why you are the right person to deliver that message.

What Will You Say?
Define clear topics and presentation possibilities.
Who Is It For?
Identify audiences and organizations that fit your message.
What Will They Gain?
Show the ideas, insights, or experiences audiences can take away.
Why You?
Connect your experience, expertise, and book to your presentation.
YOUR SPEAKER PITCH DECK

Present More Than Your Book

Your custom presentation positions you as the speaker while using your book as the foundation for your message, expertise, topics, and potential audience experience.

Speaker Introduction & Positioning
Introduce who you are, what you bring to the conversation, and the perspective behind your message.
Core Speaking Topics
Develop presentation topics inspired by your book, experience, expertise, and central message.
Audience Value & Takeaways
Explain what attendees may learn, consider, discuss, or take away from your presentation.
Target Audiences
Identify the organizations, communities, groups, or audiences most naturally aligned with your message.
Book & Message Connection
Show how your book supports and extends the subjects you can address as a speaker.
Experience & Credentials
Highlight relevant professional experience, lived experience, credentials, or prior speaking background.
Engagement Formats
Present appropriate possibilities such as keynotes, workshops, panels, discussions, or virtual programs.
Professional Visual Presentation
Bring your speaker positioning, book, and supporting visuals together in a polished presentation.
SEE WHAT YOU'RE GETTING

Explore a Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck

See how an author's book, experience, message, speaking topics, audience fit, and program possibilities can come together in a professional presentation for speaking outreach. Click the preview below to flip through the example.

Preview of So Now You're a Widow by Bonnie Merryfield - Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck

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Example: So Now You're a Widow by Bonnie Merryfield demonstrates how a Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck can transform a book's subject matter and an author's experience into a speaking platform, highlighting relevant presentation topics, appropriate audiences and organizations, and ways the author could contribute to conferences, events, and other programs.

ONE BOOK. MANY POSSIBILITIES.

Think Beyond a Traditional Author Talk

The ideas behind one book may lend themselves to different types of programs. Your deck can help potential hosts envision how you and your message might fit their particular audience and format.

Keynote Presentations
Workshops & Breakout Sessions
Panels & Moderated Conversations
Author Talks & Book Discussions
Virtual Presentations
Fireside Chats & Q&As

Your Book Is the Beginning of the Conversation

A book can establish the ideas, stories, research, expertise, or lived experience behind your message. A Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck takes the next step by showing potential hosts how those elements can become a presentation designed for an audience.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION

Make It Easier to Envision You on the Program

A pitch deck cannot make an organizer's booking decision, but it can give that organizer a clearer picture of your message, potential topics, audience fit, experience, and possible presentation formats in one polished resource.

Creation or use of a Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck does not guarantee speaking engagements, event acceptance, paid appearances, audience size, book sales, publicity, or other outcomes.

MORE WAYS TO PITCH YOUR BOOK

Choose the Pitch Deck for Your Goal

Speaking is only one opportunity. Outskirts Press offers specialized pitch decks developed around different book-marketing goals and decision-makers.

Take Your Message Beyond the Page

Click Add to Cart to begin your custom Speaking Engagement Pitch Deck and turn the ideas, expertise, stories, and experiences behind your book into a professional resource for speaking outreach.

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