WD Presents: A Literary Agent Boot Camp, New Podcast Episode, and More!
This week, we’re excited to announce your last chance to sign up for our literary agent boot camp, our newest podcast episode, and more!
There's always so much happening in the Writer's Digest universe that even staff members have trouble keeping up. As a result, we decided to start collecting what's on the horizon to make it easier for everyone to know what's happening and when.
This week, we're excited to announce your last chance to sign up for our literary agent boot camp, our newest podcast episode, and more!
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Last Chance To Register for Our Literary Agent Boot Camp!
First, congratulations! If you’re reading this, you’re dedicated to honing your submission and you’re approaching this industry from a business perspective. This is excellent news—but writing a great book is just the beginning.
Selling your book is a multi-layered process that will introduce you to key players in the industry. In this all-new Agent One-on-One Boot Camp, literary agents from The Tobias Literary Agency will give you the insight, information, and insider tips to navigate this ever-changing and competitive market.
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Writer's Digest Presents: Spooky Book Club With Tiffany D. Jackson!
Editor-in-chief Amy Jones, managing editor Moriah Richard, and content editor Michael Woodson sit down with author Tiffany D. Jackson to discuss her new YA horror novel, The Weight of Blood—which sees Jackson both returning to familiar form while also venturing into new territory, as The Weight of Blood is her second horror novel but her first novel written in third person.
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Watch the Interview With Tiffany D. Jackson On YouTube!
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Seven WDU Courses Begin This Week!
21 Days to Your Novel Outline and Synopsis
This course is designed to help you understand how to craft a winning premise, how to outline your novel, and then how to take both of those things and assemble a synopsis that will act as a guide for you to write your novel and sell it.
Build Your Novel Scene by Scene
If you want to learn how to write a story, but aren’t quite ready yet to hunker down and write 10,000 words or so a week, this is the course for you. Build Your Novel Scene by Scene will offer you the impetus, the guidance, the support, and the deadline you need to finally stop talking, start writing, and, ultimately, complete that novel you always said you wanted to write.
Creative Writing 101
Creative Writing 101 combines teaching the key elements of storytelling with developing the protagonist. Once you understand who this character is and how to make sure you’ve included the key story elements, you are well on your way to writing that book you have been squelching.
Focus on the Short Story
Short stories are a well-loved and popular form of fiction. When you take this online course, you will learn how to write short stories that will delight and entertain your readers. By the end of this course, you’ll improve your creative writing skills and write two complete short stories. Don’t delay—start writing your short story today!
Introduction to Copyediting
The heart of each session is a lecture that discusses important aspects of being a copy editor. Not only will students learn what a copy editor does and how she does it, they will also learn the crucial grammatical rules that will put them at the top of their game. Practice exercises allow them hands-on participation, and writing assignments reinforce each week’s skills.
Sell Books on a Shoestring Budget
You're an author on a tight budget. Or, maybe you've got some money, but you're tired of wasting it on marketing that didn't work. You've poured everything into writing your book hoping to move thousands of readers with your words. You've dreamed, hoped, maybe even prayed, that your book sales would take off. But, that reality has yet to come true. It doesn't seem fair for your dream to die just because you don't have thousands of dollars to spend on marketing. Is selling a lot of books only reserved for the elite authors with big budgets? No. It's possible to sell a lot of books—even on a shoestring budget. Like any author, you want to sell enough books to entertain or educate a lot of readers.
Writing the Memoir 101
The goal of this course is to teach you how to structure your stories, develop your storytelling skills, and give you the tips, techniques, and knowledge to adapt your own life stories into a chronological memoir. Learn more about the genre through Writing and Selling Your Memoir by Paula Balzer and The Truth of Memoir by Kerry Cohen.
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