After the success of the first Superstars Writing Seminar in Pasadena, Kevin j Anderson and Rebecca Moesta will again be joining bestselling authors Brandon SandersonDave Wolverton, and Eric Flint to present another three-day set of intensive lectures.  This time, the team will be joined by guest instructor Sherrilyn Kenyon, author of the popular Dark Hunter series; she’s had fourteen #1 New York Times bestsellers in the last two years!

The Superstars Writing Seminar is a practical, no-nonsense course on business topics for the professional writer.  Topics include:

Economics of Commercial Publishing

How Editors Look at Manuscripts, Novels, and Short Fiction

Dissecting a Book Contract

How to Read and Understand a Royalty Statement

Dirty Secrets: What You Need to Know About Being a Professional Author

How to Leverage Your Intellectual Property

Balancing Acts: Writing World and Real World

Agents

Networking and Self-Promotion for Authors

Understanding E-Books

Pitching the Big Proposal

Two Heads Are Better than One: Collaborations

How to Get an Edge with New Media

Movies, TV, and Authors

How to Increase Your Writing Productivity

—and more, including open Q&A sessions, a special limited-seating VIP banquet to get to know the instructors, and plenty of networking opportunities among the teachers, other writers, and fellow students.

Dates are January 13–15, 2011 (Thursday–Saturday, the weekend before the national holiday of Martin Luther King Day).  Early-bird pricing is still in effect, but prices will go up at the end of October.  For more information and to sign up, go to www.superstarswritingseminars.com.

Awards

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Peacemaker - Aurealis Award
Best Science Fiction Novel 2014

Curtin University Distinguished Alumni Award 2014

Transformation Space - Aurealis Award
 Best Science Fiction Novel 2010

Sharp Shooter - Davitt Award
Best Crime Novel 2009 (Sisters in Crime Australia) 

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