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20 October 2018 | Learn to Sell the Sizzle with Relationship Expert’s Tips

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Workshop: Learn to Sell the Sizzle with Relationship Expert’s Tips

If you’re willing to write about your personal experiences in love, sex, and relationships, Joey Garcia wants to show you how to profit from it.

Joey Garcia is a relationship advice columnist and the on-air Relationship Expert at Fox 40.

Her workshop will explore ways to manage the fear of revealing personal details about yourself or your friends, how to recognize and capitalize on relationship trends, and how to find markets for your writing.

Workshop Details

  • When: 20 October 2018, 8:45-11:30am
  • Where: Hodel’s Country Dining, 5917 Knudsen Drive in Bakersfield
  • Tickets: $10 for members, $15 for guests, include a buffet breakfast and can be paid at the door or online.

September 15, 2018 | Realistic Character Design Workshop

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Workshop: How to Create Realistic Characters for Your FictionJoan Raymond, Character Development Workshop Presenter

Great storytelling relies on great characters. And now there’s a fun system to help you develop yours.

Join Writers of Kern and creative writing instructor, Joan Raymond, for our September meeting and workshop.

Joan will walk writers through all the easy steps and fun questions that lead to those realistic characters in breakout stories. She’ll show you “how to get inside a character’s head and discover hidden secrets and emotions” that go beyond basic description and outer appearance.

Joan Raymond teaches creative writing through Bakersfield College’s Levan Institute and served as Writers of Kern president for four years. Her short stories have been published online and in print.

Workshop Details

  • When: 15 September 2018, 8:45-11:30am
  • Where: Hodel’s Country Dining, 5917 Knudsen Drive in Bakersfield
  • Tickets: $10 for members, $15 for guests, include a buffet breakfast and can be paid at the door or online.

 

August 18, 2018 | Self-Publishing Made Simple

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Self-Publishing Workshop in Bakersfield

Marcus & Donnée Harris of First Draft PublishingReady to self-publish your book but don’t know where to start?

Join Writers of Kern and First Draft Publishing executive duo, Marcus and Donnée Harris, to find out how to create and market a self-published book that readers will love to buy.

Marcus and Donnée will cover tools for publishing and selling a manuscript, how to use easy social media resources you probably already have to find new readers, and how to make the most of self-publishing platform, Amazon.

Donnée, journalist turned self-published novelist and busy mom of three, wrote six novels that sold thousands of copies—all while staying home with her girls. Marcus created and marketed seven books while working full-time as an engineer. Both prove that writers can successfully self-publish and sell their books even when they don’t have a lot of time.

Workshop Details

  • When: 18 August 2018, 8:45-11:30am
  • Where: Hodel’s Country Dining, 5917 Knudsen Drive in Bakersfield
  • Tickets: $10 for members, $15 for guests, include a buffet breakfast and can be paid at the door or online.

July 21st, 2018 | Crafting the Perfect Pitch with Clarissa Kae

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Clarrisa Kae

Monthly Meeting July 21, 2018

The publication journey is filled with obstacles. Among them is “the pitch.” At the July 21st Writers of Kern meeting, Clarissa Kae will present a workshop that will demystify the art of a pitch. Writers will discover what a pitch is and what it isn’t–and why we authors need one.

We’ll learn the basics (what, where and how) of a pitch and then work together to reconstruct a more polished pitch. At the end of the workshop, we’ll have a Good Pitch, Bad Pitch contest, where each participant can win a prize for their Perfect Pitch.

“A Perfect Pitch is the very soul of the novel—and the crowning moment in the author’s craft,” says Kae, longtime board member and this year’s WOK president. She has worked with publishing editors and the online presence for Writers Digest and others and garnered clients for traditional and self-publishing clients before breaking out on her own.

Join us on Saturday, July 21, for this exciting topic. Register to attend here.

(You can also pay at the door.)

Allison Crotzer Kimmel – Craft the Perfect 10

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Writers of Kern
Monthly Meeting

April 23, 2016
Allison Crotzer Kimmel

 

Allison Crotzer Kimmel, author and writing workshop presenter, will teach writers how to “Craft the Perfect 10”.
Allison Crotzer Kimmel’s program is designed to remove the mystery of how to hook an agent or editor. She will help participants understand what the first ten pages of their manuscripts should contain and why these are the most important pages of their manuscript.

Using examples and discussion of successful novels that have wonderful “First 10s” and hands-on activities designed to set up participants’ “First 10s” for perfection, Ms. Kimmel expects attendees will become ready to craft their own “Perfect 10.”

A former teacher and the author of four published books for youth in middle grades, she said, “I’ve learned a lot about what worked in my manuscripts and what didn’t.  From the first drafts of my manuscripts to their published pages, my first tens changed [greatly]… “

Allison Crotzer Kimmel, a Bakersfield resident, serves as the Published and Listed Liaison for the CenCal region of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. To learn more about Ms. Kimmel, see her website at www.allisoncrotzerkimmel.com

Writers of Kern monthly meetings, held at the Clarion Hotel from 9:30-12:00, are open to the public. Admission: Members, $5, Guests $10. For more information see www.writersofkern.com or email info@writersofkern.com.