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| How to Plan Your Novel Like a Pro, Interview with Beth Barany
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August 13, 2021
Oakland, CA
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| | Future novelists everywhere have at one point felt that spark, that yearning to tell stories, to fill pages with fascinating characters, exciting plots, and genuine emotions. Then they encounter the big question: “Where do I even begin?”
In an interview with fellow novelist Emma Dhesi, I shared about I got my start writing non-fiction before I committed to writing my first novel. Then I talked about my current series, sci-fi mysteries that follow protagonist lead investigator Janey McCallister.
Read the rest of the post here:
Or jump right to our podcast interview here:
In This Issue: - About the upcoming Book Marketing Huddle (no cost to you!)
- 8 Weeks to Writing a Commercially Successful Novel for Experienced Novelists, Upcoming Course with C. S. Lakin
- Picture Book Palooza for Children's Book Authors with Mira Reisberg
- 60-Day Novel Course... Coming in October!
- Top Posts on the Writer's Fun Zone Blog
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| About the upcoming Book Marketing Huddle
We will have a free online huddle soon -- Tuesday, August 24, 4pm PT/7pm ET -- with a focus on book marketing for fiction writers.
This is an offering to everybody here on this list and also to any friends you would like to invite. (Just send them the link!)
Sign up here:
Everybody who wants to come needs to sign up here, so I can send out the details and reminders to only those who want to come.
I'll be sending the recording to all who sign up, even if you can't make it live. |
| 8 Weeks to Writing a Commercially Successful Novel for Experienced Novelists, Upcoming Course with C. S. Lakin
For a limited time (until August 21), you can enroll in C. S. Lakin's intensive, deep, unique, and powerful course on writing a commercially successful novel for $200 off the regular price! Just type in coupon code SUCCESS when you enroll HERE.
For experienced writers, 8 Weeks to Writing a Commercially Successful Novel gives you a year's worth of material and instruction. You'll have lifetime access into the lectures, bonus videos, sample scenes, and all worksheets!
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| 2021 Picture Book Palooza
Help support diversity and low-income scholarships by joining Mira Reisberg of the Children's Book Academy at the 2021 Picture Book Palooza! Includes: handouts, worksheets, live & recorded, innovative topic-specific panels, a PBP party & so much more!!! Oh and tons of fun as well!
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Have a happy and creative week!
All my best,
Beth |
| | | BOOK MARKETING HUDDLE
We will meet again in August: Tuesday, August 24, 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern.
Do you have a specific question you'd like me to address during the Huddle? You can submit it here.
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60-Day Novel... Coming in October! We’re getting ready behind the scenes to launch our 60-day novel course, in time for NaNoWriMo.
Our course starts Oct. 1, so you can plan your novel with us. Then write together during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November, with hands-on support.
Great for writers who have always wanted to write a novel, and for writers stuck in the middle and would like to reach The End this year!
Early Bird Registration opening soon. |
| | Top Posts on the Writer's Fun Zone Blog
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| | | | You have been reading the Creativity Sparks Newsletter!
Now in its 15th year, this newsletter is a service of my coaching and consulting business, helping genre fiction writers write, market, and publish their books through courses, coaching & consulting, NLP sessions, a 12-month group program, and books to the delight of their readers.
You may share this content intact and with no changes with this attribution:
c. 2006-2021 Beth Barany, Creativity Coach for Writers, www.BethBarany.com
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| ABOUT BETH BARANY
Beth Barany is creativity coach for writers, a teacher, workshop facilitator, and speaker, who helps fiction writers experience clarity, so that they can write and polish their novels, and proudly publish them to the delight of their readers.
Owner of the Barany School of Fiction, an online training hub, Beth takes great interest in how humans learn, create, and grow, and includes all her students’ life experiences, including the ancestors, into the moment.
Want a course to help you prepare to write your novel? Discover the comprehensive Plan Your Novel course here, I teach alongside with award-winning, bestselling thriller author, Ezra Barany.
She's also an award-winning novelist and writes magical tales of romance, adventure, and mystery to empower women and girls to be the heroes in their own lives.
Uncover her Henrietta series here (YA Fantasy) and her Touchstone series here (Fantasy/Paranormal Romance). And her new Sci-fi Mystery here.
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
Writer's Fun Zone blog
Photo Credit: by c. 2018 Ezra Barany
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