Here is the list of upcoming workshops in 2025!

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January 2025

How to Fix the “Funny” in Your Romance
ome writers were born funny. The rest of us wonder if our Humor Muse got marooned somewhere off-planet. Fortunately, comedic-writing skills can be developed—like a muscle—with practice, persistence, and a pinch of playfulness.

Into the Wormhole
In 4 weeks, we’ll travel down these imaginary wormholes to find our own story possibilities via Time Travel, Space Travel, Cracks in the Space Continuum, and journey forth into parallel worlds, alternative dimensions and, by following the footsteps of FARSCAPE or FIREFLY, (or Star Trek or Star Wars) into the farthest reaches of space.

Missing Puzzle Piece-Core Wounds
This workshop will explore what a Core Wound is, how it goes into the building of a deeply felt and memorable character, and how it influences their actions and reactions in a story. Further, we’ll discuss “matching” Core Wounds, in which a pairing (lovers, hero/villain) have the same wound but manifest it differently – and the potentially perfect complications it creates.

Hot Premise
This is for everyone who’s had a hard time boiling their stories down into the simplest terms, a necessity in today’s short-attention-span era. Come on over and find out how you can be make your premise double-take-worthy!

February 2025

Stealing Secrets from Screenwriting: How to make your book Bingeworthy
Learn how to weave in multiple storylines, use leads, sequels, and buttons, and the best character archetypes like the red shirt to answer story questions and open closed doors for the sequel.

Confessions of a Contest Judge
Participants will learn how to select a contest, how to avoid ‘fake’ contests, and leave with five tips for getting their work recognized and five things to avoid when entering a writing contest. Instructor has judged (and entered) numerous writing contests for both youth and adults.

Face to Face
This workshop covers topics such as how to conduct an interview, both in person, by phone, and by e-mail. It will discuss not only should we attend a conference, but what we should do once we get there, what should we say, and how we should act.

Writing the Short Story
Interested in writing shorter fiction? Shorts are popular at Amazon and are a great way to practice new techniques and to experiment. Discover how short stories are different than longer fiction and how they are similar.

March 2025

Easy Synopsis Writing
Join Editor and Book Coach Rona Gofstein and learn her index card method. A few questions, a few sentences, and you’ll have the first draft done in under an hour! And as a bonus, you can use this to help you plan/plot your next book and even draft your blurb.

How to Maintain Romantic Conflict
Without conflict there is no story. Your characters have to grow and be challenged. They fall in love, break up and make up until the HEA or HFN. How do you keep the tension and conflict as they go through their story arc? What keeps them going and what conflicts do they have to work through?

Cyberpunk It
Learn the ins and outs of writing a cyberpunk story. When did it all begin and where is this subgenre headed? You’ll have the opportunity to work on a cyberpunk story and post part of it to the workshop for instructor feedback

Those Who Forget The Past – Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel
In Those Who Forget History: Using Backstory to Enhance Your Novel, students will examine how to use backstory effectively to enhance their stories using elements of a character’s past.

April 2025

Overcoming Write Overwhelm
In this workshop, you’ll learn what leads to overwhelm, steps to overcome it, and additional ideas for setting yourself up to keep overwhelm and its buddies, stress, anxiety, and procrastination, at a minimum. You’ll also learn a few tips for coping with it in the writing process itself.

Creating Dystopian Worlds and Stories
In this 4-week workshop we’ll get a handle on how to create our own really messed up worlds. Not only will we look at the spins other writers have put on the dystopian

Active versus Passive
Characters do things. They go places. They have goals, a purpose, and challenges in your story. All of this is about action. Being active. During the next four weeks, we will look at different aspects of writing and see how we can make these elements more active and more engaging to give readers an immersive experience.

Ensembles & Sidekicks
So what’s the deal with the TV shows or movies or books with groups of characters supporting the main characters? They’re all interesting and they’re all making sure the story is propelled forward to be the most exciting adventure it can be. How can you make sure your sidekicks aren’t cliches or flat? This workshop includes a handout so that your sidekicks aren’t there to be a hindrance, but a help.

May 2025

Writing to Market in Romance
We’ve all heard the term Write to Market. But it doesn’t mean you can’t write the book of your heart. With a few tweaks that book could appeal to a hungry market. Learn to do the research and plotting necessary to hit reader expectations, nail the tropes, and march to the right beats in the romance genre!

Fairy Tale Retelling
Fairy tale retellings are very popular for a reason. They use tropes and characters that we’re familiar with. For instance, the Cinderella story is a common one across cultures and centuries. Learn how to use these familiar and beloved characters in stories and give them a different twist.

Writing Your Book in First Person POV
Writing in the first person can be challenging. But it is a great way to get your reader connected with your main character right away. In order to write in first person POV, it’s best to have a distinctive voice that engages the reader. In this class we’ll cover some important points for writing a novel in first person POV.

Making a Good First Impression: The First Five Chapters
The First Five Chapters: Your opening chapters are a book’s first date with a reader! They’re going to make decisions on if this is the right match for them based on their first impressions. So how do we write engaging, enticing, informative first chapters that set up your story, your characters and keep readers reading?

Digging Deep – Researching Your Novel
In Digging Deep: Researching Your Novel, I’ll introduce you to various research methods, as well as different options for organizing your research. Topics covered will include using written sources, libraries and archives, and the media to help in your research.

June 2025

When Your Hero Must Swear
In this “Teaching Workshop,” #1 bestseller, Adrienne deWolfe, will reveal how to redeem a growly Bad Boy, who needs a serious timeout.

Benefits and Pitfalls of Joining Writing Groups
Workshop will cover the basics of creating and organizing a writers’ group and different styles for both giving and receiving critique.

Stuck in the Middle
This class focuses specifically on the middle of your story, the bulk of the action that takes place after the set-up and builds up until you reach your “disembarking point” and the book’s ending.

Using Myths, Fairy Tales and Archetypes for Powerful Storytelling
For writers, the realm of myth and fairy tale is one of unending storytelling possibilities. This workshop defines and describes the elements and characteristics, as well as the differences of myth and fairy tales and how you can use them for stories that capture your reader.

July 2025

Social Media for Authors: The Budget Edition
Regardless if you’re a new writer or have been around the publishing block or two, you need to promote your work on social media. The problem is creating and maintain your online presence can be overwhelming, time consuming, and in some cases, expensive. How are you to write your best novel ever if you spend all your time promoting yourself online? SOCIAL MEDIA FOR AUTHORS: THE BUDGET EDITION solves that problem for you. Lisa Rabey will walk you through tips, tricks, and tools from creating a content calendar so you’ll always be ahead of the game to using free tools to manage and schedule your posts.

Writing Your Book in First Person POV
Writing in the first person can be challenging. But it is a great way to get your reader connected with your main character right away. In order to write in first person POV, it’s best to have a distinctive voice that engages the reader. In this class we’ll cover some important points for writing a novel in first person POV.

Last Three Chapters
We’ll discuss all the parts of your story that need to be considered as you end your book – everything from major character arcs to little details. We’ll consider the big and small in concluding your story in a satisfying way to make your readers happy!

Gaslamp Fantasy- The Worlds, The Wonders, and The WOW Factor!
So let’s pile into the carriage in our best Georgian and Victorian wear, and seek out the mysteries—and a cast, plot and just the right mix—to spin a Gaslamp Fantasy tale of our own!

August 2025

Making the Leap from 5 to 6 Figures a Year: How to Fail Your Way to Eventual Success
In this workshop, Ines Johnson will show you how she became an overnight success … after five years of bumbling mistakes. You’ll learn the secrets, which are mostly comprised of what not to do, as she details her missteps and failures up the slippery ladder of success from three figure to six figure author.

Behind the Scenes: The Research Before the Book – Aug ’25
Behind the Scenes: the Research Before the Book is a class which will help writers learn the basics for researching their novels. Whether they are using the public library, stacking their own shelves or meeting with a professional in their character’s profession, this class will give the writer the insiders look at how to do the research and then pull it all together.

Writing Through the End of the World
Fascinated with end-of-the-world stories? Or what it might be like to live after the end? Or societies gone wrong? This workshop will help you to explore these ideas so you can write stories of your own. Exercises will help you to develop your ideas and draft a short story or opening of a longer piece of fiction. You’ll have the opportunity to post part of your draft, receive feedback, and post your revision for additional feedback if time allows.

Time, Place and Beyond – Bring Your Setting To Life

In Time, Place and Beyond: Bring Your Setting To Life, will examine various methods for plunging your reader into your setting and making it real.

September 2025

OMG! I’m Psychic: The Secret Life of a Bestselling Author

You’ll learn, first-hand, what it’s like to talk to Guardian Angels; heal with crystals; see auras; communicate with pets; read Tarot Cards; glimpse past lives; and send telepathic messages to family and friends. (Who knew?! Telepathy is real!) Bring your questions, because this talk promises to be entertaining and inspirational.

Emotions and Description
How to connect descriptions to the reader’s visceral reactions. Using all five senses to engage the reader.

Writing TechnoFantasy
Technofantasy? What is it? How is it different from urban fantasy, science fiction, or science fantasy? Discover if this is a subgenre you are interested in writing or another way to classify your previous or current project. Try your hand at writing a technofantasy short story or longer piece of fiction which you can post part of to the workshop and receive instructor feedback.

Make Nanowrimo Support Your Writing Journey
This workshop is designed to get folks excited for Nanowrimo, even if they don’t plan to set a goal of 50,000 words.

October 2025

Writing Your ID
An understanding of our journey from consumer to creator can have a major impact on a career. From choosing projects to understanding and moving through blocks to creating an authentic and unique brand, your writer’s ID is a roadmap through good times and bad, feast and famine. We will track what excites your inner writer, how it translates into your work, and what that means for your career!

Daring the Threshold
In this workshop, several types of thresholds that have to do with elements of story, story structure, and the creative process are explained so that the writer can use thresholds to enhance and strengthen their writing and their stories.

Show Don’t Tell – The Writer’s Golden Rule
The workshop will cover the difference between telling your story and showing it. We’ll examine how to effectively use the five senses and show emotions and inner thoughts. You’ll learn how to replace passive verbs with active ones, and the dos and don’ts of writing dialogue. I’ll show you how to use body language, how to add those details that make your story real, and how to show your setting so your reader feels as if she’s “there.”

Rewriting Myths, Legends, and Pantheon Tales
I’m sure you’ve heard the term The Hero’s Journey or the switch to The Heroine’s Journey, but did you realize that it follows the format laid out for the main character in myths, legends, and the tales of gods, goddesses, and their offspring with humans (and their split parentage landed them the career, whether they wanted it or not) who are stuck being heroes. Ask anyone at Percy Jackson’s camp how they feel about that.

November 2025

Direct to the Heart: How to Sell Romance Novels Direct to Readers
Ines Johnson launched her direct sales store in the Spring of 2022. It was NOT immediately profitable. There was a key element missing on her sales page, and that was the element of story!

Second Chance Romances
Second chance romance is a popular trope that covers a lot of situations. A chance to make up after a split. A second chance at love for “older” heroines. Another chance for love after heartbreak or trauma. Second chances come in many forms and readers love to experience them. Learn how to build your character’s backstory and make their second chance extra satisfying for your readers.

December 2025

Fairies & Angels Along the Silk Road
Faeries and elves and faeries can be found in many places, in ways you may not expect. Did you know (or remember) that Santa Claus is sometimes referred to as an elf? The concept of supernatural or elemental spirits who are both of the world and who are not can be found all over the world. The names may change, but whatever you call them, faeries and angels and elves have been both kind and mischievous, good and evil, sometimes a symbol and sometimes one of chaos. Let’s take a quick walk around the world. This workshop includes a handout of some well-known versions of all three.

Mini Book Blueprint
What if thirteen questions could give you a solid start on your next book? Starting with title and genre and moving to plot and point and more, work with Author Accelerator certified book coach Rona Gofstein as she guides you and gives you feedback. Deceptively simple and amazingly powerful, the Mini Blueprint can support plotters, pantsers, and puzzlers alike!