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Writing for e-zines

April Grey. The best piece of advice I ever had as a budding novelist was to also write short pieces. The benefits of publishing short stories and/or non-fiction articles with e-zines (and other publications) are huge. You can make a name for yourself as a writer, create a platform, improve your craft and get paid by selling to e-zines. This course will teach the beginning writer how to research markets, evaluate their own work, write a cover letter/follow up query and track their stories. Students will submit a short piece of 3,000 words or less to the group (a work in progress is okay).
 
Syllabus:

1) Introduction, Introduce yourselves and How to research markets: Top down or bottom's up?

2) Where is your niche - Finding a good match Everyday Fiction and other markets

3) Evaluating your work and finding helpers - come up with a list of ten potential markets to share with the group. Formatting.

4) Tracking your efforts - How many short stories, keep sending them out - Something extra. Not just good for e-zines. Keep track of anthologies, use topics as writing prompts. The question of self-publishing. Wanting to create a track record of sales and publications for a platform and to prove in the game. After publication (make sure you don't sell rights for more than a year) then can self publish as a promotion.

WHEN:    Jan 28, 2013 - Feb 10, 2013

COST:   $20 for Premium Members
$30 for Basic Members

Cancellation policy: Registrations are non-refundable except when the workshop is cancelled by Savvy Authors.

REGISTRATION:      *** Registration Closed***

INSTRUCTOR:   
April Grey‘s urban fantasy novel, Chasing The Trickster, is published by Eternal Press. Her short stories have been published in such print anthologies as Demonmind's Halloween 2010, The Best of Everyday Fiction 2, Northern Haunts, Ephemera,and Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry. On the Internet her work can be found at Every Day Fiction, Wily Writers, Erik's Hysterics, The Edge of Propinquity, Chaos Theory: Tales Askew and many more. Some of these stories are in her collection, The Fairy Cake Bake Shoppe available through Amazon and Smashwords. She is on the editing staff of Damnation Books. To learn more go to: www.aprilgreywrites.com, www.aprilgrey.blogspot.com and http://www.amazon.com/April-Grey/e/B005GLQBRE.

Tags:    Craft, Plotting, Characterization, Industry, Genre, Intermediate





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