The Basics of Marketing & Promotion 2-Week Intensive Workshop – Susan Palmquist
In this two-week class, we’ll go through the nitty gritty of promotion and marketing and by the end you should be able to successfully handle your own book marketing.
Successful Book Launches – Susan Palmquist
In Successful Book Launches you’ll learn-
How to start thinking about promotion before you even begin writing
How to create a promotion timeline
How to figure out who your audience really is and the best way to reach them
How to book yourself on podcasts, blogs and book review sites.
Building, Developing, & Promoting Your Brand – Susan Palmquist
In this two-week class, we’ll start building and developing your brand so that you offer readers and the media a consistent presence online.
Contemporary Romance and the Romantic-Comedy: There’s a Difference? – Beth Henderson
That doesn’t mean characters in romantic comedy don’t have problems similar to those in contemporary romance. It’s that the situations and the things that result from the way they handle things are different. The dialog shifts.
Make Villains Memorable – Mary Marvella
Learn how to make your villain the best he/she can be!
Small Conflicts that Move Your Story Along – Mary Marvella
In this class, we will work on ways to use small conflicts to keep a story moving.
Do I Need an Editor? – Mary Marvella
How do you know if you need an editor or not? Mary Marvella will teach you all about when you need an editor and when you don’t. She’ll also give some handy editing tips.
Writing Your Memoirs or Autobiography – Mary Marvella
Students could have a working outline for a memoir/autobiography and a good portion of a rough draft by the end of the month and the instructor’s guidance after the class ends.
The Fine Art of Killing Words: Editing for a Lean, Mean Manuscript – Beth Henderson
In four weeks, we’ll walk this walk together, evaluating what can go and what needs to stay, changing verbs, revising sentences, giving up adverbs (hardest thing for me!), trimming descriptions, catching when characters babble, and limiting dialogue tags.
Writing a Nonfiction How-To Book – Mary Marvella
We’ll use Mind Mapping and other brainstorming. We will explore the elements that make up a successful book.