Maggie Lynch has been teaching business and
technical courses for career-minded authors for nearly 15 years. Most of them
were through in-person workshops. For a few years she did offer several courses
as self-paced video. However, an analysis of completion rates worried her.
People would pay for the course but often abandon it well before finishing. The
feedback she received was that they needed the ability to ask questions and
didn’t have that in video-based courses. So, she decided to return to in-person
workshops. The difference is she runs them via Zoom so authors in multiple time
zones could attend. For the past two years she has been teaching
live-instruction, small classes (limited to 7 participants) via Zoom over
several weeks. They have been well-received. She’s enjoyed the in-person
teaching and coaching, and the participants have stayed for the entire class.
A number of students have asked for craft classes taught in this same manner, but Maggie felt uncomfortable teaching craft classes as she’s never had the educational background for creative writing instruction. So, in 2022, she found a great person to join POV Author Services as an instructor specifically for Craft classes. Her name is Jody Wallace. She is an author of over 30 books and has an MFA in Creative Writing, and has taught English and Writing classes at both the high school and college level. Best of all she has a great sense of humor and makes the hard work of writing fun.
Below is the 2022 schedule of POV Author Services courses. The links for each course go to the course product page where you can learn more about the course, the topics that are taught, and purchase a seat in the course if you like. As classes are limited to seven students, you may want to consider planning for the entire year. IF we get overwhelming need for a particular course, we will consider adding a second section.
2022 CRAFT COURSES SCHEDULE
Jan 11
– Feb 11 – Creating Compelling Conflict (4
weeks) $55
Feb 22
– Mar 9 – Writing Deep 3rd POV (6
weeks) $75
April
12 – May 10 – Composing Scintillating Dialog (5
weeks) $65
May 24
– Jun 14 – Self-Editing and Revision (4
weeks) $55
2022 BUSINESS COURSES SCHEDULE
Feb
10-Apr 7 – Foundations (12
weeks) $78
Apr
21-Jun 9 – SEO For
Authors (8 weeks) $85
Jul 7 –
Aug 18 – Build
Your Reader Email List (7 weeks) $75
Sep 1 –
Oct 6 – Effective
Social Media Marketing Course (7 weeks) $65
Nov 4 –
Dec 9 – Revive
Your Backlist ( 5
weeks) $45
You can learn more about our course and teaching philosophy here: https://povauthorservices.com/course-choices/teaching-philosophy/
5 comments:
Thank you to RTG for highlighting our courses. I am really excited about the addition of Jody Wallace and the craft courses. I know that many writers--both new to writing books and those who may have published, or are trying to get an agent, want these classes. There is so much I learned about writing because I took classes from some writers with lots of books already published. And there were a lot of things I learned along the way because no one bothered to tell me the basics. They assumed I knew them.
I hope everyone picks up class or two--even if it's not these classes. It is important to continue to learn new things and to apply them to our writing and careers. Happy 2022 everyone!
Those classes sound cool!
My favorite writing/publishing educator team is Damon Suede and Your A-Game. I also enjoy the Manuscript Academy, and the virtual classes that RWA chapters offer.
I've learned a ton in Maggie's classes and also value the classes and workshops I've taken from Laurie Schnebley Campbell, Mary Buckham and Margie Lawson. I did the Damon Suede Master Class, Verbalize, before an Emerald City Conference several years ago. Looking forward to learning from Jody...now to go sign up!!!
Hi, Maggie and Jody!
Having taken some of Maggie's previous classes along with Jody I can vouch as to Jody's sense of humor and how informative the classes were. Maggie goes above and beyond in answering questions, even questions that didn't necessarily pertain to the class, but did pertain to writing.
I have signed up for one class so far. I did have a question: classes that are in the future would I have to pay now or when it gets closer to the actual class? Thanks!
I have taken classes from all mentioned above. I am looking forward to signing up for one of Maggie's class - especially interested in newsletter production and SEO - even though I have taken time-limited workshops in those topics, I know Maggie gives a more in-depth look at topics over a period of time. I'll search my workshop folders and send some names along of those that were particularly useful.
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