March 2025 at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
Editing is probably one of the most important tasks when writing a book—aside from the writing itself—and one that most authors either dismiss or simply don’t like to do. We get that, truly! It’s hard to go back over what you’ve written and read and read and read again. But editing is also an essential part of the writing process. It will elevate your work and ensure that what you meant to write is actually what your readers will read. There are two parts to editing–no, it’s not all commas and semicolons.
In this week-long course, we’ll go from the big picture to the little details:
- Lesson 1: It’s English Class Again
- Lesson 2: Character Development
- Lesson 3: Line Editing
- Lesson 4: Sentence Structure
- Lesson 5: The Dreaded Punctuation
Registration closes March 7, 2025
Sex!
Join Lady of the Realm Allison Lane for Regency Basics PLUS!, an overview of Regency England covering the laws, customs, and beliefs that make it a unique setting for stories.
The course will cover titles & address, making and breaking marriages, inheritance rules, the Season, how to plan social gatherings, estate parks, travel, the postal system, money, food, remedies, libraries, the differences between the real Regency and the literary Regency, and much more. As authors, we want to write more than contemporary stories in costume, so let’s learn how.
This course consists of 20 lessons posted every weekday for four weeks. Allison encourages questions and answers them as they arise. The class includes images but no video, though links to useful online videos and other resources are provided.
For those who have taken Allison Lane’s Regency Basics classes before, she has combined both of her previous short classes into one longer class, expanded several of the topics, and added a couple of new ones, so you might want to register again.
Registration closes March 11, 2025
A Beginners Guide to Facebook Ads
This interactive course will take you through the basics of setting up ads on your Meta account and show you the elements of a good ad campaign. The information you should track and how to conduct testing.
BookBub Basics
This interactive course will take you through the basics of creating BookBub ads. The most effective elements for graphics, how to refine your targeting, and the importance of copy. You’ll learn the terminology, i.e., the difference between CPC and CPM—and the best time to use each.
This course will be conducted live on Zoom and the recordings saved for those who can’t attend live.
Registration closes March 25, 2025
