About The Author

Carmen Leal is the author of five books including, WriterSpeaker.com, an Internet research and Marketing Guide for Writers and Speakers (WaterBrook/Shaw) and You Can Market Your Book, a book marketing toolkit for Christian authors (Write Now Publications). Her writings have been featured in Guideposts, Focus on the Family, Decision Magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, and numerous national and local publications. Her personal experience stories have appeared in dozens of compilation book series.

Carmen was featured as a publishing success story by Writer's Digest in 2000 and is a judge for the Writer's Digest Self Published Book Awards. She is a CLASS graduate, an Act One alumni, a member of Christian Writers Fellowship International and a member of the Naples Press Club.

For a listing of her writing workshops and classes please visit her topics page.

Carmen is a popular presenter at both Christian and secular writers conferences. She has taught or will be teaching at the following conferences:

"If we had a royal title of Queen of Promotion, the crown would belong to Carmen Leal." -- Cec Murphey, Award winning author, co-author, and ghostwriter of more than eighty-eight books.

South Florida Christians and Media Conference (2001, 2002)

Colorado Christian Writers Conference (2000, 2001, 2003)

Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference (2000, 2001, 2003)

Sandy Cove Communicators Conference (2001)

Florida Christian Writers Conference (2002, 2003)

God Uses Ink, Canada (2002)

Montrose Christian Writers Conference (2002)

Mid-Atlantic Writers Conference (2002)

Write on the Sound (Secular) (2000)

Washington Independent Writers Technology Conference (Secular) (2001)

Washington Independent Writers Conference (Secular) (2002)

Glorieta Christian Writers Conference (2002, 2003)

Richmond Christians Who Write

International Christian Writers Conference (Nairobi, Kenya) 2003