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6 weeks starting January 20, 2026
Publishing 101 with Carla King
How to finish, market, publish, and promote your books in today's changing book marketplace
It's a fun day when a box of your books arrives. Make it happen! Avoid time-sucking mistakes and money-wasting scams. Grow your audience and decide how to publish. Then launch it with the confidence your book will reach your readers.
I just returned from AUTHOR NATION where I connected with old and new friends in the authoring, publishing, marketing, and promotion business. I can't wait to share the new ways to make your writing and publishing life easier and more fun. Yes, even "marketing" - I swear!
A BOOK PUBLISHING MASTER COURSE FOR FICTION AND NONFICTION AUTHORS
It's easier than ever in 2026!
Learn about book publishing and book marketing and book promotion in this six-week workshop. Publishing is an integrated process that you can really enjoy with a community of other writers, readers, and publishing professionals. Don't do all this alone. Let me show you how and we can do a lot of this together.
In Publishing 101 you'll learn:
- How to make your book proposal a business plan so you always have the option to publish independently.
- How to avoid scams and spot red flags so you can make informed decisions before investing in publishing services.
- How to choose the right tools and hire the right services. There are many low-cost ways to outsource tasks you don't want to do yourself.
- Can you say "content plan?" How to start sharing your work on Substack or Medium or WordPress so you can launch with fans.
- The difference between marketing and promotion and how to make sharing a catalyst for your writing.
- The book production steps: editing, formatting, design and how to hire it out.
- Publishing options: Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Publish Drive.
- Selling digital (ebooks and audiobooks) and gorgeous print editions directly from your website.
- And so much more!
Class replay: December 16, 2025
The New Rules for Publishing in 2026
Choose your publishing path, avoid the new scams, and launch your book to readers who are waiting for it.
Also learn about my 6 week Publishing 101 Master Course that starts January 20th. (Scroll down for more.)
I help authors finish and publish their books to an audience that can't wait to read it!
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Past Events
Writing Groups
Share your writing with like-minded authors for accountability and critique.
The Writing Group You've Been Looking For
By popular request, I’ve set up this lightly facilitated, writer-driven group where you’ll be matched with a small peer pod to exchange work, stay on track, and strengthen your craft. You’ll meet, share, and give feedback inside the Writing & Publishing Circle—our private, supportive online space with a 24/7 discussion group for constant connection.
You'll critique stories and chapters, scenes and outlines. This is a safe, productive space that has clear guidelines for writing group etiquette and feedback recommendations.
Your 2026 Author Roadmap
On-Demand Now: Get Instant Access
Recorded September 20, 2025
Your stories are almost ready. Let’s make sure the world is, too!
This session is a preview of my Publishing 101 course in January 2026, that teaches you how to market, publish, and promote your book.
Write It. Share It. Publish It.
If you’re ready to turn your writing goals into forward motion, this workshop will help you lay the foundation for a publishing plan you can grow over time.
Designed for writers at any stage—whether you’re shaping your first draft or juggling multiple projects—it offers a big-picture framework that links your creative process with audience building and publishing steps.
You’ll explore how short-form publishing can fuel long-term book goals, begin mapping out the stages of your own year-long plan, and discover how today’s AI tools can support idea generation, organization, and outreach.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have the beginnings of a personalized roadmap to guide you as you learn and take each step toward sharing your stories and finishing and publishing your book.
Mapping Your Memoir
Linda Joy Myers & Carla King
FREE SHORT CLASS
Monday, March 3, 2025, from 10:00-11:00 am PT
With Carla King and Linda Joy Myers
The stories in your memoir can be short or long, fun or deep, personal or universal.
In Mapping Your Memoir, you'll learn about the many ways to write your memoir and finish stories so you can start sharing them now.
The AI-Assisted Author Workshop
Carla King
Writing & Publishing Circle
Coming Again Soon!
A 2-hours per week intensive workshop with instruction and hands-on practice.
You don’t need to be tech-savvy to get real results.
If using AI tools like ChatGPT sounds intimidating, you’re not alone. Many of the authors I work with were skeptical or nervous at first—until they tried it.
Over the past year, I’ve helped dozens of writers—many of them self-described technophobes—learn to use AI to support their writing. And they’ve been thrilled with the results. They’ve written faster, gained clarity on structure, improved their scenes, and generated marketing content with ease.
The Craft of Writing a Successful Memoir
Self-Paced Course Available Now
Linda Joy Myers and Carla King show you how to weave your experiences into captivating stories that resonate with readers in this self-paced version of the course.
This course is an excellent introduction to storytelling craft with examples and practical advice you can implement in your own writing.
This course will help you craft each scene in your memoir to make an impact on your readers.
Introduction to Short Form Storytelling
FREE WEBINAR
Introduction to crafting powerful, standalone stories with clear arcs, vivid scenes, and emotional takeaways.
Share your mini memoirs, essays, or short stories with an audience as you build toward a larger body of work.
This is a introduction to our four-week course starting July 14.
Instructors: Carla King and Linda Joy Myers.
Register in advance to get the replay.
Bring Your Characters to Life on the Page
September-October 2025
Let Your Scenes Breathe, Speak, and Spark with Meaning: A Deep Dive into Dialogue, Action, and Emotional Truth
Storytelling magic for creating vivid, authentic characters
Whether you're writing memoir, fiction, or posts for your blog, Substack, or magazines, this craft of writing course with instructors Linda Joy Myers and Carla King will elevate your character development. You’ll master dialogue that drives plot, use body language to reveal hidden emotions, and create scenes with authentic power dynamics that feel cinematic and true.
Perfect for writers crafting mini-memoirs, short stories, or book chapters. Four 90-minute live sessions include optional personalized feedback, class recordings, and a supportive writer community.
Stop writing characters who all sound alike. Start creating people readers will never forget.
Transform flat characters into unforgettable people in just 4 weeks
Short Form Storytelling for Memoirists & Novelists
SHARE STORIES FROM YOUR BOOKS FOR PROMOTION AND PLATFORM BUILDING
A four-week course: July 14, 21, 28 and Aug 4
with Carla King and Linda Joy Myers
Whether you're just starting out or writing pieces to promote an existing book, this class is for you.
Short pieces are ideal for immediate sharing—with friends and family, in blogs and newsletters, or for publication in literary magazines, anthologies, and platforms like Substack.
You can even collect short stories and essays into your own anthology for publication.
You’ll learn how to identify the core message of your story and create scenes, characters, and dialogue that serve that message—briefly and powerfully.
