Successful writers write, submit their work and repeat the process. That’s how they reach their goals.
Some writers, if they are very lucky, have mentors that guide them,
most learn through painful trial and error. I want to provide a shortcut for
YOU in submitting your work and navigating your way through the volatile landscape of publishing.
Imagine what getting better writing results in 2024 might feel like.
My online course ‘Chart Your Path to Publication' provides structure and accountability for YOU—two key things that I know as a successful writer and coach are essential to writing success.
You’ll feel less overwhelmed, confused and afraid about submitting your work and publishing after taking my course.
Give yourself permission to support your writing life.
Enrollment runs through Friday, December 15, 11:59pm PT
Here's how I will serve you:
-I've designed this course to feel DOABLE and FUN! I've demystified the publishing process.
It's JAM PACKED with inspirational tools to keep you moving forward:
-Bite-sized lessons
-2 Co-Writing Sessions in Jan 2024 (NEW)
-Q&A Call
-VIP BONUS: Goal Setting Workshop and ENVISION Lab (NEW)
See ALL the EXCITING DETAILS BELOW:
‘Chart Your Path to Publication'
Lesson 1: What to Do Before YOU submit (some of the topics: Insider Tricks for Perfecting those First Few Pages)
Lesson 2: Tools of the Trade: Cover Letters, Bios, Query Letters (How to Write a Rocking Bio, How to Submit to Editors and Agents, What's in a Proposal)
Lesson 3: How to Find Markets to Buy Your Work (Tons of Resources Across Nonfiction and Fiction and across Different Genres, Intellectual Property Rights)
Lesson 4: Author Mindset (Facing Rejection, Resistance + Finding Motivation and Momentum)
All lessons pre-recorded and you will have access to them for the life of the program.
Worksheets and additional materials included with every lesson.
COURSE BEGINS Jan 5, 2024
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS:
+ Submission Tracker--you'll receive my amazing submission tracker system that will allow you to easily keep track of all your submissions
+A video on how to Overcome Inner Critics
+A video on How to Break Through Being a Serial Non Finisher
+A video on How to Write Better and Faster
+A video of a behind the scenes conversation about small press editors about what they do, how they work with writers, and the pros and cons of working with small presses.
+ 45 minute LIVE Q&A on Saturday, Jan 28, 2024 ET. You'll have the opportunity during this Q&A to have your questions answered.
This LIVE Q&A session offers you an opportunity to go deeper with me into the course material.
It’s easy to sign up for courses and never take action. My LIVE Q&A session functions as group coaching and provides you with structure and accountability during the course. It will provide insight, inspiration, information and move you toward ACTION.
If you can't attend live you can send me your question(s) and I'll answer on the air. The Zoom session is recorded and you'll receive a timestamped annotated list of questions asked and answered.
This course serves writers of every level, genre, and background, traditional or indie leaning.
The lessons are self-paced.
TWO 75 Minute-Co-Writing Sessions in January 2024
-Need to get your writing done and can't find the time? You'll have access to two writing sessions led by my writing facilitators. You'll be lead through a five minute mindful exercise, writing time (cameras off and muted) and will be reminded to take a break.
Let me support you to get published (or more widely published) and experience confidence every step of the way.
This investment is $297 Value over $1000!
COURSE WILL INCREASE BY ALMOST DOUBLE AFTER DEC 15!
*Enrollment runs through Friday December 15, 11:59pm PT
You can pay via STRIPE
*Please make sure to also enter a valid email below. Thanks!
BONUS: VIP WORKSHOP!!!!!!!
How to Set Writing Goals that You Love (and can Accomplish) in 2024!
I've designed a two part visioning workshop as a special VIP Bonus.
In this workshop we’ll cover:
How to align values, intentions and goals for writing success
Fun and creative ways to set goals that draw on all your senses
Reflect on and celebrate your accomplishments of 2022
How perfectionism gets in the way of goal-setting
Highlight ways to get unstuck during the year
You'll receive a pre-recoded video in December with exercises and inspiration about goal setting and envisioning what you most want for your writing life. We'll then come together in January via ZOOM and help you apply the work in the ENVISION LAB. This two part experience will give you the spaciousness and time to reflect, dream and be ready to take the next powerful steps.
*Delivered via Zoom. I'd love for you to be there live but if you can't it's no problem--it will be recorded!
GOT QUESTIONS? See FAQs below!
About Michele Tracy Berger, Ph.D
Dr. Michele Tracy Berger is a professor, an award-winning writer, a creativity coach and a pug-lover.
Her main love is writing speculative fiction, though she also is known to write poetry and creative nonfiction, too.
At the age of six, Michele’s mother turned a walk-in closet into creative space just for her daughter. That closet became a portal and gateway to self-expression. Michele pretended that Will Robinson, a character on the television show Lost in Space was her brother and that she fought alongside Lindsay Wagner who played The Bionic Woman. And, she went on many other adventures. From that age on, Michele never doubted the power of the imagination.
In 2004, Michele launched The Creative Tickle®, a coaching practice that utilizes her fun and accessible approach to creativity, specializing in helping writers.
Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Apex Magazine, SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire, Concrete Dreams: Witches, Warriors and Wise Women, Afromyth: A Fantasy Collection Volume 2, Stories We Tell After Midnight #2, UnCommon Origins: A Collection of Gods, Monsters, Nature and Science, Flying South: A Literary Journal; 100 Word Story; Thing Magazine; Blood and Bourbon, andFIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction.
Her nonfiction writing and poetry have appeared in The Chapel Hill News, The Wild Word Magazine, Glint Literary Journal, Oracle: Fine Arts Review, Trivia: Voices of Feminism, The Feminist Wire, Ms. Magazine, Carolina Woman Magazine, Western North Carolina Woman, A Letter to My Mom (Crown Press), Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler (Twelfth Planet Press) and various zines.
She is the 2019 winner of the Carl Brandon Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society for her story "Doll Seed" published in FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction.
In 2020, her science fiction novella, "Reenu-You" about a mysterious virus transmitted through a hair care product billed as a natural hair relaxer, was published by Falstaff Books. Much of her work explores psychological horror, especially through issues of race and gender.
She runs an award-winning blog called ‘The Practice of Creativity’ and is a columnist for The Chatham County Line.
Michele has been a judge for a variety of fellowships and book prizes awarded through Carolina Wren Press, Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN).
She is currently President of the board of the North Carolina Writers’ Network (NCWN) and President of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
Her short story collection will be published by Aunt Lute Books in summer 2024.
This investment is $297 Value over $1000!
You can pay via STRIPE
Please also make sure to also enter a valid email below. Thanks!
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