Improve Your Author Website: From Homepages to Contact Page

March 6

Every professional author needs a website, but too often bad design choices and lack of focus prevent it from doing its job.

Whether your website is one day old or ten years old, you want to make sure the time and energy that you’ve put into your website will pay off with more opportunities for you and your writing. This 2-hour live webinar will address best practices for any author website—whether you’re published or unpublished—with simple tips and tricks you can put to work immediately.

Romance Writing Virtual Conference

February 21 - 23

Our WDU Romance Writing Virtual Conference will provide expert insights from seven bestselling romance authors. Spend the weekend learning the finer points of the romance writing craft. The virtual conference also includes:

• Live Q&A with the speakers
• Network with fellow writers
• OnDemand recording access for one year
• Bonus OnDemand Webinars and an issue of Writer's Digest Magazine

How To Adapt A Book For The Big And Small Screen

February 27

This live webinar will cover the adaptation process of turning a book into a screenplay from both the perspectives of screenwriters seeking to find books to adapt, and also authors not only wishing to adapt their own books, but also who aim to understand the adaptation process.

This live webinar will be interactive with plenty of time for questions and answers.

Mastering Amazon for Authors

February 20 - April 17

Did you know? Amazon sells nearly 50% of all print books and over 70% of all e-books in America. If you want your book to reach its full sales potential, then you must learn how to sell more books on Amazon. It doesn’t matter if you’re self-published or traditionally-published…if you write fiction or non-fiction…if you’re a first-time author or an experienced veteran. Today, success for every author hinges upon selling more books on Amazon. Mastering Amazon for Authors is the premiere online course designed to help you maximize book sales at the world’s largest retailer

Introduction to Copyediting

February 20 - March 20

Copy editors are not the stars of the show when it comes to publishing and news media but they do help the stars to shine. If you’ve thought about becoming a copy editor but you’re not sure how to go about it, this is the course for you. It’s also a fitting course for college students who want to work for the school newspaper, creative writers who want to self-edit their manuscripts, teachers needing to brush up on the real-world basics for their English courses, and businesspeople striving to sound as competent and together on the page as they possibly can.

Write Your Drama Pilot in Six Weeks

February 20 - April 3

If you sell a pilot, you’ve reached the pinnacle of TV writing success. It’s extremely satisfying to see your brainchild come to life on the screen, and it can lead to an extremely lucrative career in writing, production, or “show-running.” In this course, you will learn the tools professional screenwriters use to finish high-quality scripts under deadlines. By the end of this course, you will have completed and received professional feedback on a script for your drama pilot.