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January 11, 2025 (Zoom) with Ines Johnson
1st Workshop: Stealing Secrets from Screenwriting: How to Make Your Book Bingeworthy
2nd Workshop: Back that Book Up: Five Strategies for Backlist Promotions
About Ines Johnson: Aside from being a writer and professional reader, Ines Johnson is a seasoned educator. For over 15 years, she taught college level courses in screenwriting, story development, and media history. A lifelong learner (read: academic addict), she holds a Master’s in Instructional Design, and a Doctorate in Educational Technology. She is constantly taking courses on the latest digital marketing techniques, reading how-to books, and keeping her skills at the cutting edge, so that you don’t have to!
February 8, 2025 (Hybrid) with Greta Boris & Megan Haskell
1st Workshop: Self-Publish or Get an Agent?
2nd Workshop: Using the Enneagram to Create Characters that Feel Real
About Greta Boris and Megan Haskell: In addition to being individually published authors, Greta Boris and Megan Haskell co-founded The Author Wheel. Together, they write non-fiction books for writers, teach courses online and in-person, blog, and otherwise try to help writers become authors and keep their stories rolling.
March 8, 2025 (Zoom) with Sara Allen
1st Workshop: Crafting Character Arcs
About Sara Allen: For the last decade, Sarah has been working on writing the books she would have wanted as a kid. Books that don’t gloss over complexity but are still understandable, with engaging stories, strong characters, and advanced physics concepts!
2nd Workshop: Breakout TBD
April 12, 2025 (Zoom) with Victorine Lieske and Brittany Larsen
1st Workshop: Writing to Market
About Victorine Lieske: Victorine self-published her first book, Not What She Seems, in April of 2010. In March of 2011, Not What She Seems began its 6 week run on The New York Times best selling eBook list. By May 2011 she had sold over 100,000 copies. Victorine’s first romantic comedy novel hit the USA Today Bestselling books list in January 2015. She loves all things romance and watches While You Were Sleeping about once every six months. When she’s not writing, she’s designing book covers for authors or making something with her extensive yarn collection.
2nd Workshop: How to Write Strong Female Characters in a Romance
About Brittany Larsen: Brittany Larsen is an Idaho girl who’s spent the last twenty plus years in California raising daughters, reading just about anything, and writing–not necessarily in that order. Hot yoga is her happy/uncomfortable place. She loves a good romance, whether it’s set in modern-day, nineteenth century England, or the Old West, as long as it’s got a feisty heroine and makes her laugh and/or sigh.
May 10, 2025 (Zoom) with Jill Lublin
1st Workshop: Get Known Everywhere Using Publicity: For Authors
About Jill Lublin: Jill Lublin is the 4 Time Bestselling Author of Guerrilla Publicity, Get Noticed… Get Referrals, and Networking Magic. An international speaker with more than 200 speaking engagements each year, Jill Lublin is an audience favorite for her lively and interactive keynote speeches, seminars, and special programs. Her unparalleled knowledge of publicity and networking has gotten the attention of ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune Small Business and a long list of media outlets worldwide. Having shared the stage with Tony Robbins, Richard Simmons, and Jack Canfield, when Jill isn’t traveling the word wowing audiences, she hosts her own television show, “Messages of Hope.”
2nd Workshop: Breakout TBD
June 14, 2025 (Hybrid) with Karen Sue Walker and Rebecca Forster
1st Workshop: Why Aren’t My Books Selling
About Karen Sue Walker: Karen Sue Walker, authorpreneur and founder of Laragray Press, is the author of the Bridal Shop Cozy Mystery Series and the Haunted Tearoom Cozy Mystery Series. Her alter ego, KC Walker, publishes the Arrow Investigations Mysteries featuring an out-of-work stunt double and her rescue dog. Karen Sue is neurodivergent (Autistic/ADHD) which explains why she’s good at so many things but needs Alexa to remind her to brush her teeth and eat dinner. Somehow she never forgets to make a cup of tea, although it’s often cold and forgotten like her childhood dreams. That’s okay, because she’s come up with new ones like becoming a bestselling author. Inspired by classic mysteries, puzzles, and the stories all around us, Karen does her best to keep her readers guessing. When not writing or thinking about writing, Karen Sue enjoys baking, reading, hanging out with friends, and doing her best to support marginalized communities.
2nd Workshop: Balancing Romance and Suspense
About Rebecca Forster: Rebecca Forster will try anything once, but when she was dared to write a book she found her passion. Now a USA Today and Amazon best selling author with over 40 books to her name, Rebecca is known for her keen ear for dialogue, three dimensional characters, an eye for detail, twisted plots and unexpected endings. From court watching to weapons training, landing by tail hook on an aircraft carrier to police ride-alongs, Rebecca is dedicated to hands-on research and her stories are inspired by real life crime. “There is a poignancy to crime stories,” Rebecca says when asked why she writes thrillers. “Those who investigate or prosecute crimes are personally challenged to be heroic and the victims are forever changed. There is no greater drama.” Married to a superior court judge, she is the mother of two grown sons.
July 12, 2025 (Zoom)
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August 9, 2025 (Zoom)
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September 13, 2025 (Zoom)
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October 11, 2025 (Hybrid) Celebration of Romance
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November 8, 2025 (Zoom)
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