September 17, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Put Down the Pitchforks: How AI Can Be Your Fiction Ally
with Authors A.I., a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
Thousands of authors have begun using Marlowe, an analytical AI tool that provides comprehensive editorial feedback on your manuscript. The co-founders of Authors AI will show off the power of Marlowe, their fiction-loving AI that is trained on identifying the characteristics of bestselling novels. Upload your manuscript for free during the webinar and get an instant critique. Take away actionable tips on how to identify the major story beats, narrative arc, pacing and character traits of your novel, and see which bestsellers are your closest comps. Note: Marlowe is not a generative AI and won’t write a word of your novel for you. Sorry. (Not sorry!) Streamline your editing, be more productive, and take your author career to the next level!
September 30, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Writing the Book Blurb That Will Catch the Reader’s Attention
with Pamela Kinney, NAIWE’s Paranormal Writing Expert
Cost: $30
I had to learn to write the book blurbs for my nonfiction ghost books. When self-publishing my urban fantasy/horror novel, I wrote the blurb for the back of my book. Since then, I have continued writing blurbs for my books, including for my latest, a YA dark fantasy novel.
Readers check out the cover first, then they read the blurb. It is all about selling your book, capturing readers’ interests with that blurb. In this webinar, writers will learn how they can write effective blurbs.
October 2, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Learn the Do’s and Don’ts With Freelance Contracts
with PlainVanilla, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
Since contracts are time consuming, hard to understand and typically skewed to one party, only 28% of freelancers actually use them. Join us for an informative webinar covering how the team at PlainVanilla is changing the contract game for freelancers. Our team will cover contract best practices that will allow you to focus on what you do best — creating compelling content for your customers.
The team will also cover the “Hire Me Now” magic link that makes it possible for users to hire you directly from your NAIWE profile page — TODAY. We’ll provide a few examples of how the magic link can help grow your freelancing business and leave room at the end for open Q&A.
January 7 – February 25, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Macros 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $199
Do you often perform the same tasks in Microsoft Word? How much time do you waste doing repetitive tasks at the beginning of each project? At the end? How about just in general throughout the editing process?
In this 8-week course, you will learn how to maximize your time by putting those repetitive tasks in a macro, allowing you to push one button and they are all done!
Some of the tasks that can be put into macros to speed up your process are auto formatting documents (font, size, color, margins, spacing between paragraphs, and double or single spacing documents), find and replace, adding comments, deleting comments, exporting comments, and other advanced concepts.
In addition, you will learn more than one way to create macros so you can create them in the way that is easiest for you!
Class Overview
- Macro Basics
- Find and Replace
- Introduction to Visual Basic
- Formatting a Word Document
- Find and Replace Macros
- Comments
- Combining Macros
- Advanced Macros
March 4 – April 1, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Marketing 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $124
Marketing 101 teaches the fundamentals and theory of marketing your business. The main topics to be covered include the following:
- marketing ideas
- setting business goals and obtaining them through marketing
- branding (create your brand and use it to the fullest)
- developing and limiting social network connections
- overcoming cold calling fears
- developing processes for success.
Class Overview
- Marketing Goals
- Marketing Activities
- Branding
- Social Networking
- Cold Calling