Online workshop: How to Write a Bestseller with New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong

How to Write a Bestseller

 With book editor Brian Henry

  & New York Times #1 bestselling author 

   Kelley Armstrong 

Saturday, April 3, 2021
1 – 5 p.m.

Offered online, so you can join from wherever there's Internet

This workshop will give you the inside scoop on what gives a novel best-selling potential. You’ll learn how to get readers emotionally involved in your story, how to raise tension, control your pacing and keep your readers turning the pages. But you won't just hear about some of the best secrets of the trade; you'll learn how to apply them to give your own writing a sharp new edge.

Workshop leader Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing teacher for more than 25 years. He publishes Quick Brown Fox, Canada’s most popular blog for writers, teaches creative writing at Ryerson University and has led workshops everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Sarnia, Ontario, to Saint John, New Brunswick. He has helped many of his students get published, including guest speaker Kelley Armstrong...

Kelley Armstrong  lives in Aylmer, south of London, Ontario, with her husband and three children. She used to program computers and attend Brian Henry workshops. Now she writes international bestsellers. Kelley has hit the New York Times bestseller list with both her supernatural thrillers for adults and her urban fantasy for teens.

Kelley's principal publishers are Penguin Random House in Canada and St. Martins in the U.S. To date, she's published more than 50 books, most recently A Stitch in Time, a gothic novel for adults,  Wolf’s Bane, a YA urban fantasy, Every Step She Takes, a thriller for adults, and The Gryphon’s Lair, a middle grade fantasy novel. Coming in February 2021: A Stranger in Town, an adult mystery/thriller.  

Bitten, a TV series based on Kelley’s first 13 novels, was on the air Jan 2014 through April 2016.

Fee: $39.82 + 13% hst = $45 paid in advance by mail or Interac

To reserve a spot now, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

See Brian's complete current schedule here, including online and in-person writing workshops, weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats in Algonquin Park, Alliston, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Collingwood, Georgetown, Georgina, Guelph, Hamilton, Jackson’s Point, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Midland, Mississauga, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Southampton, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor, Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.

Mid-pandemic schedule for writing workshops and retreats continues to develop

December

Happy Hanukkah! Sunset on Dec 10 to Dec 18

Merry Christmas! Friday, December 25

2021

January

Happy New Year! May 2021 bring you health, happiness
     and all good things.

Online: How to Get Published with Barbara Berson
    of the Helen Heller literary agency, Sunday, January 24.
    Details here.

Online: Writing for Children and for Young Adults with
     Scholastic Books editor Anne Shone, Saturday, January 30. Details here. 

January ~ Weekly courses

Online: Exploring Creative Writing, an introductory, low pressure course to get the creative

  juices flowing. Offered at two times: Thursday evenings, Jan 21 – Apr 1 {no class Feb 25} and

 Friday afternoons, Jan 22 – Apr 2 {no class Feb 26}. Details of both here.

Online: Writing Personal Stories, nine weeks of creativity and fellowship. Thursday

  afternoons, Jan 28 – Apr1 {no class Feb 25}. Details here.  

Online: Writing Kid Lit, Picture Books, Chapter Books, Middle Grade books, and Young Adult
 novels, with enormously talented and experienced authors as guest speakers for two of the classes,
 Tuesday evenings, Feb 2 – March 30. Details here.

Online: Writing Little Kid Lit, Picture Books, Chapter Books, and Middle Grade books, with

 enormously talented and experienced authors as guest speakers for two of the classes, 

  Wednesday evenings, Feb 3 – March 31. Details here.

February

Online: Writing and Revising, Saturday, February 6. Details here.

Online: Writing for Children and for Young Adults with Kids Can editor Kathleen Keenan.

  Saturday, February 27, Details here.

April

Online: How to Write a Bestseller, with New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong,
  Saturday, April 3.  Details here.

May

Algonquin Park: Writing Retreat at Arowhon Pines Resort, an island of luxury in the
     middle of a wilderness. Friday, May 28 – Monday, May 31. Details here.

For more information or to reserve your spot at any weekly class, weekend retreat or Saturday
     workshop, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

This weekend: Writing Conflict; and Secrets of Writing a Page-turner

Writing Conflict: Fight scenes, Dialogue scenes & Love scenes

Saturday, November 30, 2019
1 – 4 p.m.
London Central Library, Stevenson & Hunt Room B, 251 Dundas St, London, Ontario (Map here).

This workshop is geared to both beginners and more experienced writers. We'll look at how to create the most difficult scenes of all: the fight scene, the dialogue scene, and the love scene.  You’ll learn how to use great dialogue and how to mix it with your narrative so that the interaction between your characters comes alive, and you'll go home with some of the best tricks of the trade so that you'll never write a lifeless scene again.

Fee: $37.17 + hst = $42 paid in advance or $39.82 + hst = $45 if you wait to pay at the door

To reserve a spot now, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Secrets of Writing a Page-Turner

Sunday, December 1, 2019

10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Includes lunch!)

Arrive at 9:30 to check in and for coffee and snacks

Sho – Art Spirit & Performance Centre, 628 Monmouth Road, Windsor, Ontario. (Map here)

Ever stayed up all night reading a book? In this workshop, you’ll learn you how to build that kind of tension.  And we'll help you put into practice the techniques professionals use – on every page and in every kind of story – to create drama and tension.

Fee: $65 in advance or $75 at the door (Registration includes lunch)

Register online here.
Or reserve a spot now by emailing brianhenry@sympatico.ca

And mail a cheque to:

Windsor International Writers

c/o Sho

628 Monmouth Road, Windsor, ON  N8Y 3L1

Workshop leader Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He publishes Quick Brown Fox, Canada’s most popular blog for writers, teaches creative writing at Ryerson University, he's led workshops everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Sarnia to Charlottetown, and he's the author of a children's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But his proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get their first book published and launch their careers as authors. 
See reviews of Brian's classes and workshops here.

See Brian’s complete current schedule here, including Saturday writing workshops, weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats in Algonquin Park, Alliston, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Collingwood, Georgetown, Georgina, Guelph, Hamilton, Jackson’s Point, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Midland, Mississauga, New Tecumseth, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor,  Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.