Writer Mama Riffs on Raising A Writing Career Alongside Your Kids

Poetry For the People with Sage Cohen
Next Class Begins on June 4th
Prerequisites: None
Have you always wanted to write a poem but didn’t know how to begin? Maybe you’re already writing poetry and want to connect with your muse more often, or brush up on your poetic prowess? Poetry for the People takes poetry off of its academic pedestal, making it accessible to and enjoyable for everyone. Six lessons with six assignments completed in six weeks.
Cost: $175 [Last time at this price.]
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Personal Essays that Get Published with Sage Cohen
Next Class Begins on June 4th
Prerequisites: None
Everyone has a story to tell. Would you like to tell yours exceptionally well–and then share it with a wider audience? Personal Essays that Get Published equips you with the basic knowledge you need to write personal essays that connect-and the market know-how to get them published. Six lessons with six assignments completed in six weeks will take you from writing magnetic leads to cultivating meaningful and memorable narratives to researching markets and sending out your work. Plus, each week’s lesson will include two recommended publications for placing your essays.
Cost: $199
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With Christina Katz

Writing and Publishing The Short Stuff
Especially For Moms (But Not Only for Moms)!
Next Class Begins on August 20th
Prerequisites: None
Finally, a writing workshop that fits into the busy lives of moms! You will learn how to create short, easy-to-write articles-a skill that will make it easier to move up to longer, more time-consuming articles when you’re ready. Try your pen at tips, fillers, short interviews, list articles, how-tos, and short personal essays-all within six weeks. Now includes markets!
Cost: $199.00. [This class fills fast and is already filling!]
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Targeting Your Best Writing Markets
Next Class Begins on August 20th
Prerequisites: Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff is strongly recommended or Permission from Instructor
Learning to sift through and analyze markets is one of the biggest challenges of launching a writing career. This class will help you tackle the markets head on while covering: idea management, how to discover your best audiences, how to allow those audiences to lead you to fresh ideas, how to break a magazine down into the key areas that matter most to freelancers, and how to start specializing right away so your career will achieve lift-off faster. And how to determine your speciality or specialties so you can earn more.
Cost: $175.00. [Last time at this price!!!]
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Platform Building Basics for Writers
Next Class Begins on October 8th
Prerequisites: Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff, Targeting Your Best Writing Markets, and Pitching Practice all strongly recommended or Permission from Instructor
Be the first to sign up for the companion class to my forthcoming book, Get Known Before the Book Deal. Picking up where Targeting Your Best Writing Markets left off. This class helps you go position yourself as a seasoned professional, who isn’t afraid to let the world know what you have to offer. This is an advanced class, for people who have taken classes with Christina Katz and who are ready to take their writing career to a more professional level with a blog, Web site and newsletter. By the end of our six weeks, you will have a clear vision of your platform, and a plan for first and future steps. You will be ready to anchor your book proposal to that all-important online and in-person presence, agents and editors are looking for.
Cost: $199.00 [This class fills fast and is already filling!]
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An E-class Taught by Christina Katz

Class Begins on June 4th
Most writers underestimate the comprehensiveness needed in a book proposal that will garner the interest of agents and editors. They also mistake the definition of platform and importance of alining their proposal to a solid track record. A two-time author, Christina has helped hundreds of nonfiction writers succeed over the past seven years. Now she’s making her proposal-writing advice available in a six-week e-mail course to aspiring authors who want to nail the proposal the first time around.
Cost: $199.00. [Only time at this price.]
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Don’t forget that Friday, Leap Day, is the last day to send in your receipt for a new copy of Writer Mama that you got this month to get the essay markets. You may forward your receipt to: “writer mama 2 at earthlink dot net”

Don’t forget that the week to submit your application for the next full scholarship for Writing and Publishing The Short Stuff is between March 9-March 16th. I’ll announce the application requirements on March 8th. Please pass it on!

Don’t forget that the next round of classes starts April 16th. I’ll be offering WPSS and Pitching Practice. (I’ve decided to hold off on Platform Building Basics until August 20th. I’ll update the classes page soon.)

Don’t forget that I’m raising the price of WPSS in August to $199.00. Sign up for April for your last chance to get the less expensive price.

Don’t forget (okay, you probably didn’t know this) the WPSS class will likely be full by the time of the scholarship winner announcement) so don’t plan to try for the scholarship first and then sign up for the class if you don’t win. The scholarship is only for folks who truly cannot afford the class.

Don’t forget to keep aiming higher and higher and higher…that’s the path to success!

Well, mamas. Over the years I’ve consistently kept the prices for my e-classes low.

But it’s gotten to the point where I regularly hear that my classes are so much better than other classes and that I need to raise my price.

So, I’d say it’s time.

Over the holidays, I asked myself, “How can I help the writer mamas I teach even more?”

The decision was to add markets to each of the six workbook chapters. Now that I’ve worked with Cindy Hudson to accomplish this, I’d say the value of the class has quadrupled (not that you don’t also have to work hard, I’m still a taskmaster).

So, as of August 20, 2008, the price of all of my classes will be $199.00.

I will continue to offer one scholarship for WPSS each class session.

If you want to get in on the new upgraded class at the old price, the last chance to do so is the April 16th class, which is already filling up.

When the registrations started pouring in, I thought I’d better announce it.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

In Targeting Your Best Writing Markets, one of the many things we will explore is how and why succeeding as a writer does not necessarily equal selling out.

In other words, we’ll explore why and how The Sell Out Myth is baloney. Especially when it comes out of the mouths of successful writers.

What those obsessed with The Sell Out Myth are really talking about is their belief that being a writer means that writers should:

a. starve

b. suffer

c. act crazy (and justify it)

d. point your finger at others

In Targeting Your Best Writing Markets, I will demonstrate how insidious and damaging The Sell Out Myth is to you and, potentially, in your relationships with other writers and writing-related professionals.

More on Targeting Your Best Writing Markets is here.

Hi!

I’m gathering samples of your published work to use as writing samples in the new and updated Writing & Publishing the Short Stuff Class.

So…if you’ve taken WPSS and then published a tip, list article, how-to, filler, interview or essay, please e-holler at me at “writer mama at earthlink dot net.”

I’m looking forward to working with those who have signed up!

If you are interested in Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff, please sign up for the April 16th-May 28th class here.

Thanks!

I’m pleased to announce that the value of the class has gone up, with the addition of sample markets for each week’s lesson. Special thanks to Cindy Hudson for her help making the class better than ever!

(I like to think it gets better every time, but it’s taking a quantum leap this February 13th.)

I hate to disappoint people if they miss the cutoff, so I’m letting you know.

Here’s the info about the two classes that start on February 13th: Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff (Especially for Moms) and Targeting Your Best Writing Markets.

If you want to see the complete 2008 schedule, it’s here.

Here’s a few of testimonials from recent students:

“Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff has given me the knowledge and momentum needed to get my writing career off to a fast, successful start. Sharing ideas, resources, and proven methods, Christina’s positive attitude is contagious and reverberates throughout each weekly assignment. Christina’s book, Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, is a guidebook written just for me!” ~ Joanne D., Gainsville, Florida

“This class is like hiring a personal trainer for your writing. Christina showed us how to set small achievable goals and in order to get results you have to make the effort. No skipping a work-out.” ~ Heidi L., Vancouver, Washington

“After reading books about freelancing and how to break into national magazines, I was overwhelmed. Then I took How to Write the Short Stuff and Christina connected the dots for me.  After six weeks of classes, I had a new game plan.  Now I feel confident that I’ll see my name in a national magazine without having to take out a classified ad to accomplish that goal!” ~ Laura B., Fort Collins, Colorado

2008 CLASSES WITH CHRISTINA KATZ

Writing and Publishing The Short Stuff
Especially For Moms (But Not Only for Moms)!
Prerequisites: None
Finally, a writing workshop that fits into the busy lives of moms! You will learn how to create short, easy-to-write articles-a skill that will make it easier to move up to longer, more time-consuming articles when you’re ready. Try your pen at tips, fillers, short interviews, list articles, how-tos, and short personal essays-all within six weeks. Classes begin February 13, 2008.
Cost: $175.00.
Register at Writers on the Rise

Targeting Your Best Writing Markets
Prerequisites: Writing and Publishing the Short Stuff or Permission from Instructor
Learning to sift through and analyze markets is one of the biggest challenges of launching a writing career. This class will help you tackle the markets head on while covering: idea management, how to discover your best audiences, how to allow those audiences to lead you to fresh ideas, how to break a magazine down into the key areas that matter most to freelancers, and how to start specializing right away so your career will achieve lift-off faster. Classes begin February 13 and August 20, 2008.
Cost: $175.00.
Register at Writers on the Rise