Updated schedule for workshops: Fall 2010 and Spring 2011

Summary of workshops and dates and costs:

All workshops are held in Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast, two hours from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to sign up for any of these or have questions please e-mail me at Dean@deanwesleysmith.com and put the words “writer’s workshops” in your subject line.

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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Any questions, or if you would like to sign up, please e-mail me at dean@deanwesleysmith.com.

These workshops range over different skill levels and a few have limitations, so please read the descriptions following carefully and feel free to ask questions. We have tried to schedule some workshops close together to save on travel costs. All workshops are held on the Oregon Coast. All rooms are reserved for you automatically when you sign up, so no need to worry about that either. You just pay for your room when you arrive. I will not take money ahead on the rooms.

Feel free to pass this along to anyone you feel might be interested.

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———- September 2010————

CHARACTER VOICES WORKSHOP. Sept.18-25, 2010 (Starts 7 PM on the 18th, ends late 25th). Cost $600. Limited to 12. Room Rate $50.00 (3 Spots left)

Taught by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

In our modern world of publishing, if you can’t do distinctive character voice, you are at a huge disadvantage. If your readers having trouble telling your characters apart, if your work seems always flat and you’re getting form or short letter rejections, chances are your characters have no voice and this workshop is for you. A very intense week of writing. Open to all levels, but if you don’t need this workshop or are not ready for it yet, I will say no.

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NOVEL WORKSHOP. Oct 10-13, 2010 (Starts at 7 PM on the 10th). Cost $200. Limited to 12. Room Rate $40.00 (Over booked and full at the moment)

Taught by Dean Wesley Smith with feedback from Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

The novel workshops are at first, NOT a standard critique weekend. Each writer must have a novel completed one month before the workshop. Each writer will send everyone one month ahead of time the first 50 pages, a short proposal, and a query letter addressed to an editor. Everyone will read those pages, as well as one or two people including Dean will read the full novel. After your critique, you will be required to fix anything wrong in the query letter, the proposal, and first 20 pages of the book, then before you leave at the end of three days, mail the story to TWO editors. So this is a writing and mailing workshop.

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NEW TECHNOLOGY. Oct. 14–16, 2010 (Starts 7 PM on 14th, ends noon 16th). Cost $300. Room Rate $40.00

(Taught by a number of people, going into the ways writers can use Kindle, eBooks, POD and anything new by then to make money and sell more copies of their stories.) Open to all levels. This workshop will change your writing, I promise you.

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MARKETING WORKSHOP. Oct 16-23, 2010 (Starts 7 PM on the 16th, ends late 23th). Cost $600. Limited to 14. Room Rate $40.00 (3 Spots Left)

Taught by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.

This workshop, flatly and simply, will give you all the tools you need to sell novels. You will learn how to write top proposals, top query letters, and all about agents, including how to hire one, when to fire one, and when and for what they are needed. We have done this three times before and everyone who attends says it is a critical workshop. It will jump you years ahead in selling novels. Very intense writing workshop. Open to all levels, but better if you have a novel finished and have tried to sell it.

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2011 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

——–FEBRUARY 2011———
Novel Workshop Feb 21-24, 2011. Fee $250.00

Taught by Dean Wesley Smith with feedback from Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

The novel workshops are at first, NOT a standard critique weekend. Each writer must have a novel completed one month before the workshop. Each writer will send everyone one month ahead of time the first 50 pages, a short proposal, and a query letter addressed to an editor. Everyone will read those pages, as well as one or two people including Dean will read the full novel. After your critique, you will be required to fix anything wrong in the query letter, the proposal, and first 20 pages of the book, then before you leave at the end of three days, mail the story to TWO editors. So this is a writing and mailing workshop.

Denise Little Feb 24-27, 2011. Fee $500.00.

(This will fill the hotel plus some, and we will hold the actual meetings at the Inn at Spanish Head again.)

Taught by Denise Little and Dean Wesley Smith.

Denise Little is a freelance editor for Tekno Books, the packaging company that does a vast majority of the paperback and hardback anthologies, plus novels and other projects. She also freelances for many other companies. You will be required to send a story in written to order before the workshop as well as write a second short story during the workshop. An intense but fun writing workshop.

—–MARCH 2011——-
Kris and Dean Show. (Publishing Overview) March 12-13, 2011. Fee $250.00

Overview of Publishing…open to all comers at any level…pass the word to your beginning writer friends. This workshop will give you an understanding of publishing, how to break into it, how to start selling your fiction, and so much more.

Marketing Workshop. March 26-April 3rd, 2011. Fee $650.00. Limited to 12, so deposits required.

(This has changed so much, it’s not even the same marketing workshop as two years ago. If you need help on query, proposals, and so on, plus pitches and blurbs for e-book sales, might want to take this one. An intense writing workshop that will teach you how to get your books to editors in every detail.)

——APRIL 2011——
Character Voice Workshop. April 16-24, 2011. $650.00.

Limited to 12 so deposits required.

(This is one of the most important workshops we are doing, and more than likely the last time. There is one in September 2010 with spots still open. Take one of them. You will be very happy you did. Knowing how to do character voice in the modern world of publishing is critical now.)

—— MAY 2011——
How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: May 13-15, 2011. $350.00.

(This will fill the hotel, so deposits needed to hold your spot. Contracts, negotiations, the whole ball including when and how to seek help. This is an expansion of the copyright and contracts workshop held last year. Revision clauses and so much more critical things you need to know even if you have an agent.)

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Novel Workshop. May 16-19, 2011. $250.

(see details above)

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Secrets of Making a Living with Your Fiction. May 20-22, 2011. $350.00.

This is an extension and slight change on the workshop we just finished called Money Management. This includes both traditional publishing and e-book publishing and will blow you away. I promise. Just ask anyone who took the workshop in June. This one dovetails nicely with the Literary Agent workshop from the previous weekend. I guarantee you this will change your writing career in a very good direction.

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Short Story Workshop. June 18-26, 2011. $650.00.

Since a writer can now make more money than you can imagine writing short fiction with this new world publishing is slamming into, this workshop suddenly becomes very, very important. Both Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I will teach it and you will come out of this inventory and understanding on how to write short stories and their importance. We are both highly acclaimed editors of short fiction and this will be the only time we will teach this ever. It will be intense with a lot of writing and a lot of fun.

That’s it. 9 workshops next year. Don’t expect us to hold any workshops in the fall of 2011. I doubt we will.

Sign-ups now being taken. Next spring is going to be a lot of fun. And watch out, the Denise Little short story workshop will have some surprises and a lot more value than even normal. Of all the years for that workshop, this is the one you want to make. Trust me on this one, you will understand later in the fall.

Questions or more information or to sign up, just e-mail me at dean@deanwesleysmith and put workshops or writer in your subject line.

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