Some Fall 2011 News From Christina Katz

Even though it’s the last hurrah for vacation season before school starts, I’ve got plenty of news, so here goes:

Accepted!

The panel I submitted for The Association of Writers and Writing Programs, “The Tech-Empowered Writer: Embrace New Media, Experiment & Earn,” was accepted from a pool of 1,021 submissions.

I will moderate the panel and Jane Friedman, Robert Lee Brewer, and Seth Harwood will join me on it. I hope anyone who is considering attending AWP 2012 will attend the session!

Click on the logo for more info about The Association of Writers & Writing Programs 2012 conference in Chicago.

Updated!

I’ve rounded up the list of Books By Women Writers for High School Students and I need your input to help me polish the list. If you are a woman writer of any kind, these are the writers who paved the way for us. I feel empowered, humbled and inspired after working on this list. I hope it inspires you, as well. Thank you women writers!

Reviewed!

The initial assessments of The Writer’s Workout are in!

“Practical advice, not guru fluff,” says digital expert Guy LeCharles Gonzalez.

“Like having a personal trainer for your brain,” says novelist and playwright Marc Acito.

The one writing book  professor and memoirist Melissa Hart has been looking for to walk her students with kindness and respect “through the maze of learning to live as a working writer.”

Agent and novelist Donald Maas says, “Get ready to flex your muscles—and harness your mind!”

This book contains 366 inspiring quotes, 366 tips, tasks and techniques, and 366 gentle kicks in your creative caboose. Pre-order your copy today!

[Don’t forget to e-mail me your receipt (katzchristina @ comcast dot net) you will be entered in a drawing for the first 50 who purchase the book. I will select three readers for a free one-hour coaching session in September!]

Coming Right Up!

At least one of my former students gets published every single day of the year. Some days, many are published. Rarely does a day go by when one isn’t published. It’s kind of cool to have reached this milestone, which has come from ten years of consistent hard work teaching back-to-back classes while I’ve worked on my own writing.

In my classes, I walk students through the paces from totally unpublished to the thrill and excitement of their first clips to building up confidence and bigger and better writing credits to launching a platform and eventually even self-publishing.

Two of my long-time students have recently published e-books that serve women and families and more of my students’ e-books are rolling out soon (read about Judy’s e-book here and Malia’s e-book here).

I offer up-to-date, inexpensive classes that mom writers can take at their own pace, growing writing, selling, platform and publishing skills as they go along. The next round begins on August 24th. I’ll be offering Writing & Publishing the Short Stuff, Pitching Practice: Write Six Queries In Six Weeks, and, my latest class, Micro-Publishing for Mom Writers. Abigail Green will also be offering her class, Personal Essays That Get Published.

I hope you can join those of us who are getting happily published!

Featured!

I’m quoted in an article by Kerrie Flanagan in the 2012 Writer’s Market on the topic of “The Art of Promoting.” The 2012 Writer’s Market edited by Robert Lee Brewer is now on sale, in case you did not know.

I was also featured in an article by Kelly James Enger on “Do You Need To Build A Platform?” in the August issue of The Writer.

I was interviewed for the premiere issue of Tweet Magazine in an interview about Success On Twitter with Desi Velikova.

Well, apparently I have been holding back because I have more good news. But I think I’ll save some of it for next time.

Make good things happen, writers!