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Writing to Market: You’re Not Selling Out, You’re Selling Books
October 20, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Are you convinced that writing to market means you have to give up on writing the ideas you love? Are you having difficulty selling your unique books and getting them noticed?
Take an honest look at your target market, genre of choice, and industry competition in this practical workshop where you’ll discover the research process for fleshing out a story idea with the goal of selling mass-market books (and getting one step close to writing what people want to read).
Participants will require a personal device (cell phone, tablet, laptop) to allow them access to the internet.
Program Overview
- Welcome & WCYR News
- Writing to Market debunked (what it really means & how you can do it without sacrificing the quality of your writing)
- Discuss the main genres of those writers in the room & explore mainstay ideas vs. trends
- Trope & Story scavenger hunt with personal devices
- Analyzing the story you “want” to write & how to tweak it for market salability (explore K-Lytics as an informative tool)
