Please go to our Wordflow page for all the details and pricing options for this amazing course available 6 times a year.
In this two-afternoon workshop, David Kilmer and Kathrin Lake will show you how to avoid dialogue mistakes commonly made by writers, and elevate your dialogue for greater effect. Topics include: The Dos and Don’ts, Show Don’t Tell Dialogue, Dialogue for Advancing Plot-Story, Revealing Character, Subtext, Humor and Wit, Intrigue, Natural Dialogue, Editing Dialogue and much more. Participants are encouraged to ask questions and will be doing in-class exercises and an overnight assignment to learn by doing.
June 28th & 29th, 2025, 1pm - 2:30pm, a 2-afternoon LIVE online Zoom workshop that is recorded. MINIMUM 4 PARTICIPANTS - $110 CAD (Approx. 80 USD)
A Publishing and Book Marketing must-see LIVE on Zoom to successfully launch your publishing and book marketing journey whatever your genre or ambitions. TENTATIVE dates are September 3rd, 4th and 5th until all details and experts are finalized. In the later afternoons and evenings.
Please show your interest in this 3-day event by emailing
Look for upcoming in Fall 2025-2026 by getting on our list
This is an intense 2-hour LIVE online Zoom workshop in which participants will do character development, and writing exercises. Please show us your interest by emailing. Recorded. TENTATIVE dates for October. MINIMUM 4 PARTICIPANTS - $TBD - but very affordable. NEW Look for upcoming in Fall 2025-2026
Author, Kate Lovecraft (pseudonym), will explain the nuts and bolts of writing a murder mystery in this intense 4-day course. Things covered will be genre expectations, plotting, characters, location, clues, denouement, and more. This will get new writers to the genre started, and others who are already writing, a new boost. Fun exercises and sharing. MINIMUM 4 PARTICIPANTS - $240
March 24 - 27, 2025, 4pm – 6pm PST LIVE Zoom. FINISHED - Look for upcoming again in Fall 2025-2026
(6-8pm CT, 7-9pm ET)
Learn how to be a more effective writer 24 hours a day by designing a writer’s life. Topics include: What Stories Am I Meant to Tell?, The Essentials of Storytelling, Journaling, How to Craft Irresistible Dialogue, Best Practices for Enhancing Creativity and also How to Produce More By Writing to Deadline. As a bonus, we will practice how to Edit Like a Pro. Instructor David Kilmer has spent a lifetime crafting stories, published hundreds of magazine stories, two literary non-fiction books including his most recent, The Way of the Sailor and one novel. He has been a ghostwriter, editor, newspaper reporter, feature writer and is currently the editor of Coeur d’Alene Magazine. MINIMUM 4 PARTICIPANTS - $240
March 31 - April 24, 2025, Mondays & Thursdays, 4pm – 5:30pm PST LIVE Zoom. FINISHED - Look for upcoming again in FALL 2026
(6-7:30pm CT, 7-8:30pm ET)
Get on our email list for details, subscribe below, or email us directly for more information. We facilitated top-level writing retreats from the years 2011 to 2020, and stopped for Covid (see this blog post). To relaunch them and to do them better than ever is what is taking time to develop but we have a new beach location and are thrilled to provide our great retreats once again.
April 5 - 11, 2026
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