Join me for a new Masterclass: WRITING AND SELLING SHORT STORIES
How to Craft Great Stories and Find Paying Markets for Them
Join me for a new Masterclass: WRITING AND SELLING SHORT STORIES with NY Times bestseller JONATHAN MABERRY
Saturday May 30, 10am - 1pm PST (1 - 4pm EST) via ZOOM
DESCRIPTION: The short story is exploding and it’s a market constantly hungry for new talent and new voices! Short fiction is a great way to build your writing career and increase your professional income; it can also help you stretch as a writer. Short stories offer more creative opportunities than any other form of writing.
We’ll discuss:
• The short story structure (and its many variations)
• Building compelling characters
• Knowing where to start (and how to end with a punch!)
• Strategies for great dialogue
• Developing a compelling opening hook
• Research for short fiction
• Finding Markets (including places you’d never think to look!)
• Writing for Magazines, Anthologies, Collections, and more
• How Short Story writing can help you write a better novel!
• Short Stories as your ticket to Hollywood!
• Strategies for finding paying markets
• And much more!!
TO ENROLL: $50. (To enroll make a PayPal payment to jonathan_maberry@yahoo.com NOTE: If you don’t have a PayPal account, email me to make other arrangements (check, etc).
*** Proceeds benefit no-kill animal shelters and meal programs for disadvantaged children.
NOTE: Please include your full name and the best email address to use in order to send the Zoom link and class information. If purchasing for someone else, indicate that and give their name and email.
A set of notes will be made available to all participants.
JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Horror Writers Association, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, anthology editor, writing teacher, and comic book writer. He’s the author of 56 novels, 200-plus short stories, hundreds of comic books, and more
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