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  • “Video Game Writing Portfolio” with Kim Sparks

    Virtual Event Online

    This eight-week workshop will help you develop your video game writing portfolio. You will write elements for your portfolio, including: a brief scene in script format, character bio, lore entry, object description, and barks/NPC dialogue. At the end of the course, you will have a one-on-one meeting with Kim to discuss your portfolio and next […]

  • The Business of Bookselling: Managing Records, Taxes, and Publishing Costs with Elise Abram

    Virtual Event Online

    Once your book is published, you are running a small business. This workshop explores the practical, financial, and administrative responsibilities involved in publishing and selling books, helping authors understand the often-overlooked aspects and hidden costs of the business. This session examines: hiring freelancers tool subscriptions obtaining ISBNs publishing/distribution royalties bookkeeping: sales and expense recording income […]

  • Creative Writing Sessions: Playing with Words with Allison Hannah

    Aurora Public Library 15145 Yonge St, Aurora, Ontario, Canada

    This is your opportunity to get your fingers moving and ideas flowing. We’ll write in a group using 7-minute writing games: themed lists, music title prompts, passing a prompt to another participant, and more. You’ll have the opportunity to share a piece of writing with the group to receive some positive feedback. This session will […]

  • Read like a Writer with Elise Abram

    Virtual Event Online

    This workshop explores how writers can become stronger storytellers by learning to read analytically. Rather than reading only for pleasure or content, participants will learn how to “read like a writer” by examining the techniques, structural choices, and stylistic decisions authors use to create engaging fiction. By approaching books analytically, writers can turn every novel, […]

  • The Business of Bookselling: Managing Records, Taxes, and Publishing Costs

    Virtual Event Online

    Once your book is published, you are running a small business. This workshop explores the practical, financial, and administrative responsibilities involved in publishing and selling books, helping authors understand the often-overlooked aspects and hidden costs of the business. This session examines: hiring freelancers tool subscriptions obtaining ISBNs publishing/distribution royalties bookkeeping: sales and expense recording income […]

  • What’s your Brand?

    Virtual Event Online

    While raising the number of social media followers isn’t a magic formula for selling books or gaining traction with agents and publishers, it is a trust signal to the people buying your books that you are a ‘in real life’ person whom they can relate to. One of the questions I get asked the most […]

  • Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story

    Taylor’s Funeral Home 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

    Most writing craft courses and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on. And on and on and on. Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer’s toolbox. The problem with that […]

  • Consignment and Book Selling Tips for Authors

    Virtual Event Online

    We start with most writers’ goal of getting their book onto Indigo bookshelves and discuss why this is a bad goal to have and why an author should pursue it, […]

  • Begin With the End in Mind: A Backward Design Approach to Storytelling

    Taylor’s Funeral Home 524 Davis Drive, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

    This workshop explores how to build a strong story by starting with the ending and working backward. Participants will learn how themes, character arcs, and conflict work together to shape […]