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2026 Press Kit
Section V

# The speaking topics.

Five bookable keynotes. Virtual versions available for all. For event organisers and bookers.

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Speaking · Bookable keynotes

## Five keynotes. Any stage.

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For publishing conferences, author conventions, industry forums, and craft-focused events. Virtual keynotes available for all topics.

#### Formats available

Keynote · 30–60 min Panel / fireside Workshop · 60–120 min Podcast · radio · print
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For publishing execs, agents, associations, industry conferences

### Don’t Die on the Hill — What Kindle Taught Us About AI

In 2010, authors who refused to move to eBooks said they were protecting the craft. Fifteen years later, the hill they were dying on is a parking lot. Coral was there for Kindle. She was there for Kindle Unlimited. She is living through AI now — and has 10,000 death threats to prove she hasn’t stayed quiet about it. What the last three waves of disruption actually taught us about who survives, who gets left behind, and what “embracing the tool” looks like in practice for working writers.

Takeaways The pattern repeats; the hill-dying authors never win; the real question is not whether to learn but how fast.
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For authors, indie publishing conferences, writing-intensive workshops, marketing teams

### Readers Are Buying Feelings, Not Books

The single most important sentence Coral teaches her Launchpad cohort is this: readers do not buy books — they buy feelings. They are signing up to escape reality, and their loyalty is to the emotion, not the author. A market-first, trope-first approach to fiction — before a single word is written — is what separates authors who make a living from authors who write books nobody reads.

Takeaways Marketing is not what happens after the book is written; trope-mapping vs. idea-first writing; the commercial sofa you cannot deliver on a scooter.
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For authorship conferences, publishing panels, literary festivals, MFA programmes

### The Publisher Who Writes

Coral Hart does not call herself a writer anymore. She is a publisher who writes — creative director, developmental editor, line editor, marketer, and CEO of a portfolio of pen names. It is the role working authors will actually have in the next decade. What that looks like in practice, what it demands of craft, and why the lone-writer-in-a-garret model is already gone, whether we want it gone or not.

Takeaways The expanded role of the modern author; creative direction vs. drafting; how this frees craft rather than eroding it.
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For author associations, women-in-publishing panels, mental-health-in-publishing forums, industry ethics events

### On the Record — Surviving the Backlash

When The New York Times featured Coral in February 2026, her inbox registered more than 10,000 death threats within 24 hours. Her children were harassed online. Her pen names were targeted for doxing. This is the talk she wishes she had heard before going public. What she learned about her industry, her peers, and herself — and what colleagues owe each other when the pile-on starts.

Takeaways Going public is a strategic decision, not a moral one; how to preserve safety while still speaking honestly; what authors and associations should — and should not — do when one of their own is under attack.
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For working authors, writing-craft workshops, craft-focused conferences, mentorship programmes

### The Coral Method — Craft-First AI-Assisted Publishing

The Coral Method is not “ask Claude to write a book.” It is 15 years of publishing craft — trope mapping, beat sheets, story structure, character wounds, rapid release — applied with AI as a tool, not a replacement. A walk-through of the actual methodology behind 216 novels, taught live inside her Launchpad mentorship, and the five rules that separate authors who use AI well from authors who hate the output.

Takeaways The role of craft in AI-assisted work; the five-bullet-chapter outline rule; why asking beats telling; when to let AI leave the building.
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