Apr
6
6:00pm
Workshop Package | Erma Home Schooling
By Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
Learn from renowned faculty who offered four exclusive online workshops from the April 4-6, 2024, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton.) The workshops:
Humor Your Readers Can Visualize: How to Make Writing Funnier — Bob Eckstein and Mark Shatz
The most potent humor is creative, unexpected and visual, yet writers can only use words to be funny. In this interactive presentation, a cartoonist and psychologist share valuable insights from their fields to show writers how to craft more captivating humor. Attendees will learn humor principles, such as audience awareness, exaggeration, simplification, relatability, atmosphere and emotion. Through a rich array of cartoons and writing examples, attendees will develop practical techniques for enhancing humor and enlivening scenes. By harnessing the power of illustration and psychological concepts, writers can create funnier content that resonates with readers and sparks their imagination.
Memoir: Putting Life to Words — Susan Pohlman
Everyone has a natural writer within, and everyone has something meaningful to say. Our lives hold many tales, but how do we bring our personal and family stories to life on the page in a compelling manner? This interactive workshop explores the art and craft of memoir. It includes writing exercises to get you started!
Hybrid Publish or Self-Publish — Jane Friedman
This session covers everything you need to know about the self-publishing, hybrid publishing and paid publishing services landscape, in plain English. You'll come away with a clear picture of how these companies work, how they are different from each other and how it all compares to what professional, self-publishing authors do. By the end of this class, you'll be able to assess if you are well-suited to self-publishing your work, either as a complete independent (by setting up your own publishing company) or with the help of a service — or if you would benefit from what a hybrid publisher offers.
Find Your Readers: The Ultimate Book Marketing Workshop, Including How to Run an Instagram Book Tour — Eva Lesko Natiello
Have you published a book but wish your sales were more robust? Are you about to publish and want to put marketing strategies in place to strengthen your launch? The truth is that no matter how you publish these days, authors need to contribute to the marketing. This talk is designed for all authors, indie or traditional, introvert or extrovert, fiction or non-fiction. Learn actionable marketing strategies that even the most introverted author will not balk at.
Please note the Erma Home Schooling package includes:
- Access to four online workshops exclusive to this virtual package and not offered to attendees of the in-person workshop.
This package does not include:
• Access to five keynotes live-streamed from the in-
person Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop in Dayton,
Ohio, April 4-6, 2024.
- Access to workshops facilitated at the in-person Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
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