THE LIVE EVENT FOR WOMEN AUTHORS, SPEAKERS, COACHES, AND CONSULTANTS
GET IN THE ROOM.
BECOME THE NAME they remember.
Spend two hands-on days with publishers, podcast hosts, PR experts, and women ready for their next move. Choose your track. Work on your pitch, your book, or your visibility. Make the introduction you can’t make from your desk.
Your hostsApril Adams Pertuis& Alexa Bigwarfe
Authors need stages. Speakers need pages. Your next chapter needs a room.
A speaking invitation? A real plan for your book? More of the right people knowing your name? Choose the track built for your next move. Your choice of Friday track is included with both tickets.
You didn’t put all that work into a book just to keep reminding people it exists. You want audiences hearing the message behind it.
You’ve got the message. You’ve held the room. Now you want a book that keeps working for your authority after the mic is off.
Not just more followers. The right people hearing your name, understanding your work, and knowing why they should pay attention.
This room is for women already in motion: a book, a speaking platform, or established expertise with an active plan. Bring something to build on. You don’t need a bestselling title or a mainstage résumé.
You see the speaker lineup. Hear the podcast interview. Read the announcement. And think, “I could be having that conversation.”
You’re not imagining it. You have the experience. The ideas. The stories. You want more of the right people to know what you bring.
Stages & Pages brings the speaking and publishing worlds into one room. You’ll work on the message, pitches, content, and relationships that help your expertise travel further.
You don’t need to become someone else. You need more people to meet the woman you already are.
Here’s how the work you do in San Antonio carries into your next pitch, your next introduction, and your next opportunity.
Finally, a better answer to “What do you do?”
You know your work is good. The person across the table needs to understand why it matters to them. Shape a message that connects your expertise to the audience you want, then put it to work in your pitch.
Get clearer on what you’re offering, who it’s for, and which stages and publications make sense for your next move.
What you’re buildingClearer positioning and language you can actually use.
Give your next pitch something worth opening.
You’re in the room. You’ve got something to say. Use on-site content guidance and photo and video opportunities to start turning that expertise into material you can share.
Work on your message, capture content, and create while the ideas are fresh. VIP includes professional stage photos; speaker-reel recording is available as an add-on.
What you’re buildingUsable content and stronger material for your next introduction.
Good things can start with “Tell me more.”
Have the conversation you’ve been trying to start from behind a screen. Meet publishers, PR firms, podcast agencies, event organizers, and women with ideas that could connect with yours.
Ask where your work fits. Explore a collaboration. Make an introduction with a reason to follow up when you get home.
What you’re buildingIndustry relationships with somewhere to go next.
Keep the spark. Put the first move on your calendar.
You know how quickly a full inbox can swallow a good idea. Use the work you’ve done, the content you’ve created, and the conversations you’ve had to map your immediate next steps before you leave.
What are you pitching? Who are you following up with? What will you do first? Give the answers a place in your actual week.
What you’re buildingA practical action plan you can pick up as soon as you’re home.
Live podcast interview places are limited and require an application. Participation does not guarantee an interview, publishing deal, or speaking booking.
LET’S PUT MY WORK IN MOTIONThe conversation after the session. The person who asks about your book. The chance to put your message in front of someone new. Make room for all of it.
You’ve got stories worth telling and ideas worth hearing. Apply for a guest spot on a live podcast recording during the event and give a new audience a chance to meet you.
Limited interview spots. Application required; your ticket does not guarantee a recording.
Meet event organizers, agency sponsors, and people who hire speakers. Ask the question you’ve been sitting on. Let them hear what you bring. Explore where your expertise could fit.
A shared audience. A complementary idea. A conversation that keeps going. Connect with sponsors and fellow authors, speakers, podcasters, and experts to explore what you could create together.
You put a lot into those pages. Give them a place in the room. The Thursday author showcase puts your book in front of attendees, speakers, and sponsors who can discover the work behind your name.
Get guidance from an on-site social media professional, with photo and video opportunities throughout the experience. Capture what you’re learning, what you’re saying, and the work you’re ready to share.
VIP adds professional stage photos. Speaker-reel recording is an optional add-on.
Make time for coffee by the water and a walk after the last session. San Antonio gives you a reason to linger, keep talking, and get to know the women you came to meet.
Spend two days around women who have something built and something they want to do next. Share the idea. Ask the question. See where the conversation goes.
A community moment beyond the conference.Bring the book. Bring the talk. Bring the idea you’re ready to do something with.
YES. THIS IS MY KIND OF ROOM.Teaching panels. Real questions. Hands-on work. And enough room in the conversation for you.
Expert teaching panels, guided discussion, and real Q&A. Explore the author showcase and start the conversations you came for.
Included with General Admission & VIPChoose your hands-on track. Make use of office hours, sponsor meetings, and hot-seat coaching opportunities. Finish with a closing keynote and celebration.
Included with General Admission & VIPJoin the hosts, featured guests, and sponsors for brunch, followed by four hours of small-group and one-to-one implementation work.
Exclusive to the 20 VIP ticket holdersSpeaking, storytelling, publishing, and visibility. Different worlds, brought together around your next chapter.
Founder, LIGHTbeamers
Storytelling & Visibility Expert
April helps speakers, coaches, and entrepreneurs find the story behind their expertise and build a message people remember. Her work brings storytelling and stage presence into the same conversation.
Founder, Women in Publishing
Author Advocate
Alexa has supported authors for more than a decade. She brings the publishing perspective, the author community, and a belief that your book can do more than take up space on a shelf.
Founder, The REP Network
Storyteller & Visibility Strategist
With two decades in broadcast journalism, Roshanda knows how to hold a room. She brings the energy, the questions, and the momentum that keep this experience moving.
Your expertise deserves more than a someday plan. Give it a date. Give it a room. Give yourself a reason to make the next move.
Come for two days of visibility work and real connection. Or go VIP for more time, closer access, and a third day to put it all together.
Two days to work on the message, make the introductions, and map your next move.
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Because the conversation you came for
deserves more than a quick hello.
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Tickets are non-refundable but transferable with notice to the organizers. Travel and accommodation are separate. Capacity figures are ticket limits, not a live count of remaining seats.
Meet us at Sol Cypress on the San Antonio River Walk. Come for the work you want to do. Make room for the conversations that keep going after the session ends.
Still deciding if this is your room?
Ask us what you need to know.
It can be. This event is for established women authors, speakers, coaches, consultants, and experts who already have something built. You can come with a speaking platform or established expertise and an active plan to move into speaking or publishing. It is not an introductory course for starting from zero.
The main conference is October 15–16, 2026, at Sol Cypress Hotel on the San Antonio River Walk in Texas. VIP ticket holders also attend the Saturday Implementation Day on October 17.
VIP includes General Admission plus Saturday brunch and implementation work, a VIP River Walk dinner, priority sponsor meetings, front-row seating, lounge access, professional stage photos, and a curated welcome gift. VIP is capped at 20 people. The organizers will confirm the VIP dinner schedule.
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On-site content guidance and photo and video opportunities are part of the event experience. VIP includes professional stage photos. Speaker-reel recording is an add-on. Live podcast interview places are limited and require an application; an event ticket does not guarantee an interview.
Hotel accommodation and travel are separate from your ticket. General Admission does not include meals. The VIP package lists a River Walk dinner, Saturday brunch, and lounge refreshments. Contact the organizers with dietary questions or to confirm meal arrangements before booking.
Tickets are non-refundable but transferable. If you cannot attend, you may transfer your ticket to someone else. Notify the event organizers of the ticket-holder name change.
No. This is a live, in-person experience and sessions will not be recorded. The conversations and hands-on work happen in the room.
The event is capped at 120 women: 100 General Admission and 20 VIP ticket holders. The format is designed to make real conversation, connection, and participation possible.
Give yourself two days to put it in front of more people. Bring the book, the talk, or the expertise. Leave with work done, introductions made, and a clearer next move.
YES. I WANT TO BE IN THAT ROOM.
Get started today before this once in a lifetime opportunity expires.
