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WIP Live: 2026 THE Business Conference for Women Authors and Publishing Professionals in Columbia, South Carolina

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Join our WIP Team IN PERSON in Columbia, S.C., March 26–28, 2026, for a conference that will boost your skills to build your platform and business growth strategies. We invite authors, publishing industry professionals, and creative entrepreneurs.
For Authors & Publishing Pros who want to grow your business. Learn. Collaborate. Get the Work Done. Columbia, SC | March 26–28
THIS IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE CONFERENCE.
We’re coming together to grow our book centered businesses and answer the central question: Why aren’t more people buying my book, product, or service?
It’s almost never about your talent or your offer. It’s about visibility, strategy, and knowing how to connect your story to the right audience.
At WIPCON, we’re tackling the three pillars that actually move the needle:
📖 Find Your People Through Storytelling — Share your story in a way that attracts the right readers and clients, builds authority, and makes your audience feel seen.
📱 Use Social Media to Build Trust, Not Just Post Content — Use social media as a tool to get discovered, grow the know-like-trust factor, and drive the right people to your email list and website.
💰 Grow Your Revenue Through Strategy and Collaboration — Learn the sales funnels, lead magnets, email strategies, and partnerships that turn your audience into buyers.
Implementation Tracks On Saturday, choose your track and get to work with experts beside you:
🎬 Track A | Social Media & Content Lab — Walk away with finished posts, reels, and videos ready to publish.
💰 Track B | Sales, Collaboration & Growth Lab — Build your sales funnel, content strategy, and partnership assets ready to go.
📣 Track C | Visibility, Storytelling & Speaking Lab — Craft your signature story, identify where it needs to live — podcasts, stages, social media — and build a visibility plan that puts you in front of the right people.
Most conferences follow the same formula: a speaker takes the stage, delivers their best material, and heads home. You leave with pages of notes, a head full of ideas, and the familiar question — now what?
WIPCON is built differently.
This is where the Women in Publishing community comes together in person — finally — to do more than learn. To build. Day one, you’ll hear from a powerhouse lineup of industry experts across panels designed to give you every angle on growing your author platform, your revenue, and your reach. Day two, you roll up your sleeves. You’ll break into small groups with those same experts in the room — not watching from a seat, but working side by side with you to actually create the content, strategies, and assets that move your business forward.
You won’t just leave inspired. You’ll leave with work done.
WIP LIVE: #WIPCON is the in-person gathering of the Women in Publishing community — and it’s coming to Columbia, South Carolina. If you’ve been part of our world online, you already know the warmth and caliber of this community. Now imagine that, in the same room.
Spots are limited. VIP access even more so.
Learn Friday. Discover Your Genius Friday Night. Build Together Saturday.
Three days. Three distinct experiences. All designed to work together.
Friday is your deep dive — advanced marketing, visibility, storytelling, and sales strategies delivered by a powerhouse lineup of industry experts across four sessions. That evening, you’ll discover your unique Genius: the way you naturally think, create, and lead, so Saturday’s work actually fits you.
Saturday, it all comes together. You’ll choose your implementation track, work in small groups with the same experts from Friday, and leave with real assets built — not just ideas to act on later.
What You’ll Leave With
By the time you head home, you’ll have:
✅ A visibility and marketing strategy built around your story and audience
✅ A social media approach that drives people toward your email list
✅ Sales and revenue strategies mapped out for your business
✅ Real content and assets built at the event — not a to-do list
✅ Identified collaboration and JV partners in your corner
✅ A 90-day plan and a community building alongside you