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It takes a

thousand voices

to tell a

single story.

- Native American Saying

Think Banned Thoughts is proud to introduce a new summer worskhop series -

Telling Tales in the Tipi. (Located in Longmont, CO)

All classes are taught by industry professionals and can be taken individually or as a full professional development series.

Each class consists of a 3 hour hands on workshop/lecture combo followed by lunch (provided by ThinkBannedThoughts) and then an additional three hours of personal writing time in the garden or tipi.

All that for only $95 per class!!

Class size is limited, so register now via email to ensure your spot! (You can pay via paypal below. Please send me an email with your paypal confirmation number to hold your spot in the class.)

All Classes are from 10am - 4:30pm and include Lunch at 1pm

April 14th, 2012 - Self Editing From the Base Up with Karen Albright Lin - $95

Learn why writing is rewriting, how to check your plot, subplots, points of view and your character development, how to check that you’ve woven in theme and motifs, stayed consistent with facts, and how to dig out those pesky bad habits.  The last piece of the puzzle?  Sales etiquette.

Students should come prepared with any of the below that are available:

1-2 page synopsis, longer outline if you have one

Short bio for each main character

Beginning 5 pages

Sample pages from your work – a few turning point pages from different places in your MS, your climax and the end

Karen Albright Lin is a freelance editor for multi-published and soon-to-be published authors. She’s a ghost writer and multi-award winning author of novels, screenplays, short stories, literary cookbooks, magazines and newspapers. She streamlined her approach to editing novels and nonfiction proposals with guidance from previous representatives: including top NY agents, Jane Dystel and Kathleen Anderson.

July28th, 2012 - Network and Query Your Way to a Career with Betsy Dornbusch - $95

Get out of the slush pile with a winning query letter in this hands-on query writing and revising session. Polish your package and learn how to network in the publishing industry, from online to in person. You need to be able to talk about your book, too! Get the skills you need to make that sale!

Students should come prepared to pitch. No query necessay, we can start from scratch, OR workshop the one you've got.

*Betsy will be on hand after lunch to discuss your query, synopsis, pitch and project!

Betsy Dornbusch's most recent book is Sentinel: Archive of Fire, the first of her urban fantasy series featuring a legion of demi-demons rebelling against Asmodai, King of Hell. Her short fiction has appeared in many print and online venues, including the anthologies Deadly by the Dozen and Tasty Little Tails. She also writes a space “operotica” series, Salt Road Saga, written under the penname Ainsley, the first of which is Lost Prince. The second book in that series, Battle Royal, will be released in late 2012. She's been an editor with the ezine Electric Spec for six years and is the sole proprietor of Sex Scenes at Starbucks where you can believe most of what she writes. She has read and helped revise hundreds of query letters. In her free time, she snowboards and air jams at punk rock concerts.

August 11th, 2012 - Dialogue: Bringing the Sparkle with Victoria Hanley - $95

Good dialogue reveals character, provides information, and advances your plot. But what makes the difference between dialogue that’s dead and dull, and dialogue so alive and exciting that readers will be eager for the next word?

This workshop will discuss:

•Brackets and tags

•Six ways to turn dialogue into a snooze-fest

•Seven wonders of dialogue, and what they can do for your book

Students should come prepared with: Segments of dialogue already written and their writing implements

Victoria Hanley is an award-winning YA fantasy author published in thirteen languages. In addition, her books Wild Ink: How to Write Fiction for Young Adults and Seize the Story have nurtured many aspiring writers and led them to find their own success.

Our tipi was custom designed, hand painted and created for us by Earthworks Tipi - a divsion of The Colorado Yurt Comapny.

*Register for Betsy's class now and secure your place at the second Telling Tales in the Tipi Summer party taking place that night! Mingle with best-selling Colorado authors and share your stories by the fire 6:30pm until...