Each workshop is 6 weeks long and is limited to twelve people. (It will take you about four hours per week to do each of these.) These are the starting dates of upcoming workshops.
All have openings. For sign-up and more information about each workshop, click the Online Workshop tab at the top of the page.
Starting July
Class #22… July 8th … World Building
Class #23… July 9th … Plot Your Novel
Class #24… July 10th … Designing Book Covers
Class #25… July 11th … Designing Book Interiors
Class #26… July 12th … Essentials
Starting August
Class E-1… August 5th... Promotion
Class #27… August 5th … Ideas to Story
Class E-2… August 6th... Promotion
Class #28… August 6th … Openings
Class #29… August 7th … Genre Structure
Class #30… August 8th … Pitches and Blurbs
Class #31… August 9th … Cliffhangers
Starting September
Class #32… Sept 2nd … Essentials
Class #33… Sept 3rd … Plot Your Novel
Class #34… Sept 4th … World Building
Class #35… Sept 4th … Pacing
Class #36… Sept 5th … Designing Book Covers
Class #37… Sept 6th … Designing Book Interiors
Starting October
Class #1… Oct 7th … Pitches and Blurbs
Class #2… Oct 8th … Promotion
Class #3… Oct 9th … Genre Structure
Class #4… Oct 10th … Openings
Class #5… Oct 10th … Cliffhangers
Class #6… Oct 11th … Pacing Your Stories
Starting November
Class #7… Nov 4th … Essentials
Class #8… Nov 4th … Ideas to Story
Class #9… Nov 5th … Plot Your Novel
Class #10… Nov 6th … Designing Book Covers
Class #11… Nov 7th … Designing Book Interiors
Class #12… Nov 8th … Promotions
Starting December
Class #13… Dec 2nd … World Building
Class #14… Dec 3rd … Pacing Your Stories
Class #15… Dec 4th … Cliffhangers
Class #16… Dec 5th … Genre Structure
Class #17… Dec 5th … Pitches and Blurbs
Class #18… Dec 6th … Promotions
Sign-up and more information under Online Workshops tab at the top of the page.
I am excited to hear how the ebook cards did!
Diane, so far so good on the cards. Full report with pictures of the entire package when I get back.
Joshua, great to talk with you as well. See you around next few days.
Hey, it was great to sit down and talk with you a bit at WorldCon earlier today. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to see you again later this week. Safe travels regardless.
Looking forward to that report on the cards, too! It sounded like an *awesome* idea. =)
Hope you guys are having fun out there.
When I look at your page for _Killing the Sacred Cows_ it lists your new and improved articles, but _not_ the original essays.
It was in those original essays that people commented deep important information. Now when people click on the series, they have come in to the end of the conversation, when you are summing up, yet they are still stumbling through a paradigm shift that only occurs while reading the original posts.
- When I refer people to your site to read the articles, I have to give them a list of the earlier stuff so that they can get up to speed.
May I recommend that you have the complete list, beginning to end, in order, with the new stuff at the end of the list. In that way people can start at the beginning and learn everything in chronological order.
You will thank yourself for it. HA!
Hi, Dean! Glad you’re having fun and success at Worldcon. Can’t wait to hear about the ecards and your exciting news! Take care,
Karen
Hope your having fun, but I don’t think a science fiction convention would do me much good with all those casinos to tempt me.
It was terrific seeing you and Kris in Reno, Dean! Just terrific. Also, as “coming out” parties go, this former WorldCon virgin can’t complain one bit.
Dean, it was great to meet you in person at WorldCon. I’d be very interested to hear your take on some of the panels. The ones I attended re: publishing were 100% Old Guard. In fact, the answer to virtually every question from the audience was “Get an agent”. All questions regarding indie publishing were brushed aside or dismissed. All presentations re: book design, book covers, or layout were geared to traditional publishing — which made no sense, considering that (if I understand correctly) traditional publishers don’t really ask for a lot of input from writers about their book covers. I sat in the audience, thinking like a publisher, listening to these traditional publishers tell me indie publishing is an amateurish fluke, and thought “B—s—”. The fun part was listening to the questions from the audience: most of them were about how to get into indie publishing; most of the answers were variations of “don’t do that, stick with the old model”. The more I listened to these panels, the more I felt like I was on the deck of the Titanic, with icebergs in sight.
Ditto what Brad said. Overwhelming, as a Worldcon virgin, but LOADS of fun. Great to see Dean and Kris in person again–and an unexpected bonus meeting Brad Torgensen and Alastair Mayer and others who comment here. So much fun!
Great to see you and Kris in Reno, Dean. It’s getting to the point where even a five-day Worldcon is too short to see and chat with all the people I know there, let alone the new friends made, so I’m glad we had a chance to talk.
It was good to meet you, Dan. There were a few other frequent posters here I met, and a few others whose names I recognized but I couldn’t quite wade through the crowds to say hello to. Maybe next time.