Become a Sustainable Storyteller
The Create Summit helps independent authors strengthen their craft, deepen their creative process, and build work that truly lasts. Create and Expand Summits are available for immediate viewing. Prosper Summit is next, in November.
April 29 – May 2, 2026 · Sessions from April 29 – May 2, 2026
Your work has something to say. The Create Summit is built for authors who want it to say it better.
It’s easy to get caught up in the noise of publishing — trends, algorithms, what’s selling. The Create Summit is a reset. Four days of sessions designed to help you strengthen your craft, unlock your creative process, and build work that goes deeper.
Instead of reacting to industry noise, you’ll focus on building work that truly lasts.
Two Ways to Create
- Chasing trends and writing to the market
- Waiting for inspiration and hoping craft improves on its own
- Getting stuck in blocks with no tools to move through them
- Building a body of work one isolated project at a time
- Creating with intention and a voice that’s unmistakably yours
- Building sustainable creative habits and processes
- Developing skills that transfer across formats and platforms
- Thinking across books and series — building work that compounds
The Create Summit teaches intentional creating.
Four Ways Your Work Gets Stronger
Every session at the Create Summit maps to one of four creative pillars.
The foundational skills that make your writing stronger — character, structure, voice, and the elements that make stories unforgettable.
How you work matters as much as what you produce. Build creative habits and systems that support your best output over time.
Identify and move through the resistance, perfectionism, and fear that keep you stuck — and find your way back to the work.
Create books, courses, and content that serve your readers and align with the storyteller you’re becoming.
The Create Summit Is For You If…
You’re a working author who wants to go deeper with your craft, not just produce faster.
You feel like you’re reacting to publishing trends instead of building something that’s truly yours.
You want a creative process that’s sustainable — not one that burns you out between books.
You’re ready to work through the blocks that have been keeping you from finishing or starting.
You write across formats — fiction, nonfiction, courses — and want skills that transfer.
You’re playing a long game and want your work to keep getting better over years, not just weeks.
What You’ll Explore
30+ sessions across two tracks — Storytelling and Fandom.
Character & Voice Work
Building characters readers remember and voices that are unmistakably yours
Story Structure for Sustainable Writers
Frameworks that serve your work, not the other way around
Writing Through Resistance
Practical tools for moving through perfectionism and creative blocks
Building a Body of Work
How to think across books and series, not just one project at a time
Understanding Reader Fandom
What makes readers become fans and return for every book
Writing for Your Community
Creating work that builds connection and loyalty over time
Fanfic, Tropes & Reader Psychology
Using what readers already love to create work they can’t put down
Creative Experiments & New Formats
How to expand your creative possibilities in a changing publishing world
Full session list available with replay access.
You don’t have to figure out your creative process alone.
The Create Summit brought together authors, teachers, and creative thinkers to share what actually works — the frameworks, habits, and mindset shifts that make a real difference over time.
Watch at your own pace. Apply what resonates. Come back when you need it.
Create · Expand · Prosper
The Create Summit is the first event in a three-part series giving independent authors a complete picture of the sustainable author business.
Create and Expand Summits are available for immediate viewing.
Create Summit ran April 29 – May 2, 2026 with 30+ sessions and 600+ attendees. Registration is closed — Prosper Summit is the next event in the series.
Prosper Summit · November 4–7, 2026