If your goal is to become a freelance writer by selling a magazine article, short story, or book length manuscript, this seminar is for you! You will be guided through the process of publishing and learn a creative formula for developing manuscripts, production and presentation of manuscripts. Resource books available to writers will be included. Topics covered also include: research, marketing of manuscripts to agents/publishers, vanity or subsidy press, negotiations and payment. A professional critique of the publishing industry is also presented.

Instructor: Ralph Tanner
Subject: Cont_ed Course #100-80004

#67033        Sep 12        9am-12pm
Fee: $39     1 Saturday           TBA

Join the growing list of PVCC students from this class who have successfully published! This interactive workshop will teach writers the required basics of publishing including: formatting/completing manuscripts and presenting them to publishers; copyrights; manuscript submissions and; negotiations. Gain practical knowledge from an internationally recognized publisher and learn how to enter the lucrative business of publishing.

Instructor: Ralph Tanner
Subject: Cont_ed      Course #100-80003

67035        Sep 16 – Oct 7      6:30-8:30pm
Fee: $89    4 Wednesdays     TBA

Take both Ralph Tanner classes and save $19!
Cont_ed #100-80011, #67037,  Fee: $99

Did you know that Stephen King was rejected 75 times before he sold his first novel?

If your goal is to become a published freelance writer by selling a magazine article, short story, poem, or even a full-length novel, this comprehensive workshop will guide you to, then past, the editor’s desk. You will be presented with information it may take other writers years to discover, including:

• How to become a “published” writer overnight
• Submitting manuscripts the correct way
• Writing irresistible query letters
• 100 ways to make money as a freelance writer
• FREE future Q&A opportunities

If you really want to succeed, this step-by-step workshop, taught by a successful published writer, is a must! Required materials are $20 and payable to instructor in class.

Instructor: LeeAnne Krusemark
Subject: Cont_ed Course #100-80006

#67145       Sep 8        4-6pm
Fee: $49      1 Tuesday           TBA

Learn how to develop and complete your manuscript in just 6 weeks following a 10 step plan. You’ll also learn how to create a real page turner whether you are doing a fiction, non-fiction, cookbook or even a textbook. A $15 fee is payable in class for Writing, Publishing, and Marketing Your 1st Book, with all forms, samples and marketing information.

Instructor: Bobbie Christensen
Subject: Cont_ed Course #100-80014

#67023         Oct 6          6-7:45pm
Fee: $35       1 Tuesday           TBA

Learn how to submit your work to a publisher or self-publish your own book and keep the profits, plus all about POD’s, ebooks, etc. A $15 fee is payable in class for Writing, Publishing, and Marketing Your 1st Book, with all forms, samples and marketing information.

Instructor: Bobbie Christensen
Subject: Cont_ed Course #100-80015

#67031    Oct 6            8-9:45pm
Fee: $35       1 Tuesday      TBA

Are ideas continually streaming into your mind, crying to be released?

Are people continually telling you that you should write a book?

When you look at a best seller list, is a part of you continually scanning it to find your name?

Is writing a book something that you either need or want to do but you have no idea about how to go about it efficiently, quickly and joyfully?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, this one evening, teach-it-all-course was tailor made for you. Join bestselling author Tom Bird, architect of Tom Bird Method, to learn everything you need to know about how to write your book in one evening.

Some of the topics Tom will cover include:
How to Get Over Writer's Block Forever;
Why You are Already an Author and Now You Just Need to Write Your Book;
Two Drafts is all it Takes to Write the Book of Your Dreams;
Immediately Cut Your Revision Time by 98%;
and much, much more.

If you feel or think you have a book inside of you, crying to be born, this is the class for you.

Instructor: Tom Bird
Subject: Cont_ed Course #100-80017

#71136        Sep 8                6-9:30pm
Fee: $19    1 Tuesday         KSC208

This teach-it-all-in-one-evening-course provided by bestselling author Tom Bird, the architect of The Tom Bird Method, is designed for aspiring authors to get published RIGHT NOW! The ins-and-outs of how to just do that will be covered in this life changing and potential career changing course.

Topics include:
How to Get Your Book Published and Distributed Worldwide in as Little as 24 Hours;
How to Have the Top Literary Agents in the Industry Dying to Represent Your Book Right Now;
How to Follow the Nine Laws About Publishing to Which You Absolutely Have to Adhere;
He/She Sold a Million Books and Here's How You Can Do So as Well;
Common Mistakes Made by Just About Every Aspiring Author;
and much, much more.

If you have a book or story that is dying to be shared, your publication of that work is the key, and there is no one anywhere that knows more about how to get that done and done right now than Tom Bird.

Instructor: Tom Bird
Subject: Cont_ed Course #100-80018

#71137          Sep 29              6-9:30pm
Fee: $19        1 Tuesday        KSC208