Media-Ready Author: Build Your Confidence, Visibility & Media Presence

PAULA RIZZO

Media-Ready Author: Build Your Confidence, Visibility & Media Presence

PAULA RIZZO

$499.99

09/04/2025 - 11/13/2025

Enroll Now

In today’s competitive publishing world, simply writing a good book isn’t enough — you need to know how to promote it. Media-Ready Author is a 10-week course designed to give authors the tools and confidence to shine in media interviews, create compelling videos, and speak about their work in a way that gets attention.

Led by Emmy Award–winning television producer Paula Rizzo, you’ll learn how to build an on-camera presence, craft your messaging, prepare for interviews, and design your own virtual studio. This hands-on course includes live sessions, feedback on your videos and materials, and practical templates to help you build long-term visibility.

Whether you’re a first-time author or an experienced speaker, this course will help you elevate your presence and get your book the attention it deserves.

$229.99

09/04/2025 - 11/13/2025

Enroll Now

In today’s competitive publishing world, simply writing a good book isn’t enough — you need to know how to promote it. Media-Ready Author is a 10-week course designed to give authors the tools and confidence to shine in media interviews, create compelling videos, and speak about their work in a way that gets attention.

Led by Emmy Award–winning television producer Paula Rizzo, you’ll learn how to build an on-camera presence, craft your messaging, prepare for interviews, and design your own virtual studio. This hands-on course includes live sessions, feedback on your videos and materials, and practical templates to help you build long-term visibility.

Whether you’re a first-time author or an experienced speaker, this course will help you elevate your presence and get your book the attention it deserves.

Course Details

Course outline

Meet the instructor

Paula Rizzo

Paula Rizzo is an Emmy Award-winning television producer, bestselling author of Listful Thinking & Listful Living, media-training coach, speaker, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, host of the live-stream show Inside Scoop, and creator of the popular online training Media-Ready Author. She also writes a regular column for Writer’s Digest and is an on-air contributor to WPIX in New York City. Grab Paula’s free guide, 10 Media Questions Every Author Needs to Answer, to create buzz for your book.

She media trains fiction and nonfiction authors who are both traditionally and self-published. Harper Collins, Hachette Book Group, and Time Inc have all hired Paula to prepare their authors for book launches. She’s also media trained executives from The New York Times, Dow Jones, Fortune 500 companies and privately owned organizations.

She's the founder of the productivity site ListProducer.com and best-selling author of Listful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed, which has been translated into 15 languages and was featured as one of Oprah.com’s “Self Help Books That Actually Help.” She’s also the author of Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You.

Paula is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor with several courses about media skills, productivity and optimizing work from home remote offices. Paula has served on the advisory board of Book for Kids, is a member of The Authors Guild and Women’s Media Group, as well as a founding member of Chief in New York City.

Her work has been featured on TV and radio, in print, and around the web. She’s also a keynote speaker and has presented at Toyota, HOW Design Live, MA Conference for Women, The Authors Guild, New York Women in Communications, Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), Chief, American Society of Association Executives, The Author’s Guild, Writer’s Digest Conference and many others.

Before becoming a best-selling author and media trainer, Paula spent nearly 20 years as an Emmy Award-winning television producer. Paula served as a writer and producer at WPIX, WCBS and WLNY in New York City. She also spent more than a decade as the senior health producer for Fox News Channel where she produced health, wellness, and lifestyle content with a range of top experts, including JJ Virgin, Jillian Michaels, and Deepak Chopra. Visit PaulaRizzo.com for more and follow her on LinkedIn or on Instagram.