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SRL Alumni Success Log:
"Hi Jon,
Thanks for your query. I really enjoyed these opening pages, and would be happy to see the rest of the manuscript. At your convenience, could you send it along? Electronic attachment would be great. Thanks. I look forward to reading it. In the meantime, if you have any questions for me, please don't hesitate to ask. You can also learn more about me and my client list at www.andrea*****.com
best, Andrea." CONGRATS, Jon!
2. Heather Abraham, an alum of the SRL blogging workshop, is the author of a book titled The Bookie's Daughter; A Memoir of Growing Up in a Crazy, Crime-Ridden Family , which is due out this month. CONGRATS, Heather!3. Ashley Hesseltine, an SRL blogging workshop alum, is a STAR! She was recently featured on CBS as their "lifestyle and entertainment blogger." Here is the clip!Congrats, Heather!
4. Maryanne Towes, a graduate of the SRL blogging workshop and personal essay clinic, won FIRST PRIZE in an essay contest sponsored by SELF magazine, HSN and ProForm. She will be featured in the June issue of SELF Magazine, she was flown into HSN corporate and had photo shoots, interviews, and taped segments for HSN.
"Thank you for teaching me the skills I needed to make this possible," says Maryanne, "I would not have had this happen without your classes! I can't believe all the stuff I got for winning the contest. It was easily over $4,000 in prizes. I would never have won without your class."
Congrats, Maryanne!
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Book Writers Boot Camp Weekend
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May 19--20, 2012, 11-5 p.m.
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(regular price: $374. YOUR price: $334)
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Sunday, April 29
11--5
A blogging seminar with Hollis Gillespie and Mike Alvear!
(Reg. price $175, YOUR price $150)
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Upgrade Your Brain at the Shocking Real Life Acadamy with Hollis Gillespie!
Upcoming Classes:
April 26 -Travel Writing; How to Get Paid to Travel the World - Have you taken a trip that's changed your life? Do you want to document your adventures with a paying assignment for a magazine or newspaper? This information-packed, inspiring workshop, taught by . . . Read more
April 29 - Atlanta's Most Popular Blogging Workshop - This is Atlanta's Most Popular Blogging Workshop! If you've been thinking about starting a blog or if you've already started one, this workshop will teach you how to sharpen its concept, write better posts, rank higher on Google, triple your traffic and start making money . . . Read more
April 29 - Turn Your Blog into a Profit-Making Business - Learn how to discover and leverage your blogging voice, develop killer content, effectively analyze your stats and blog traffic, increase your readership and develop loyalty and improve your "findability" on Google! Read more
May 19-20 -- The Shocking Real-Life Book Writers Boot Camp Weekend - This is not your average writer's retreat! This is a lively, active, results-oriented symposium of creative and accomplished authors, attendees and answers to the questions that have been dogging you for years regarding how to go about getting a book deal . . . Read more
Dates Vary -- The Pitch Doctor with Hollis Gillespie -- Here's a secret, you don't need to have a finished manuscript to get a book deal. All you need is an amazing idea and as little as 10 pages. I've helped scores of writers get book deals and agent representation, you're next . . . Read more
Short on funds? Check out the PAY HALF NOW/HALF LATER page for the writers retreat on March 17--18! We will send a confirmation for the first payment and an enrollment confirmation and gift certificate upon receipt of the balance.
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We are now located in the historic Castleberry Artist district in Atlanta! Click HERE for directions from your location to our new space at 311 Nelson Ave., Atlanta, GA 30313!
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Read her Atlanta magazine column
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Shocking Real Life blog
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(Right: Hollis after her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
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Start the Spring Out Write!
The Shocking Real Life Writers Retreat!
May 19--20 2012
This is not your average writer's retreat! This writing seminar is a lively, active, results-oriented symposium of creative and accomplished authors, attendees and answers to the questions that have been dogging you for years regarding how to go about getting a book deal. Graduates of this workshop have become bestsellers. At the end of this book-writing retreat you will have a surmountable format for mapping out your book, the components you need to pitch a literary agent, including the agent contact information and the sample pages you need to send the agent. So, with that said, what's stopping you?
Sign up right now and save $40!
The Shocking Real Life Writers Retreat
May 19--20, 11--5
Reg. Price: $374,
YOUR price: $334
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Sunday, April 29
A blogging seminar with Hollis Gillespie and Mike Alvear!
If you to turn your blog into a profit-making business, this workshop will teach you how to monetize your concept, write better posts, come up with magnetic headlines, generate more ideas, rank higher on Google, triple your traffic and start making money.
Sign up now and save $25!
Atlanta's Famous Blogging Workshop
April 29, 11--6
(reg. price $175
YOUR price $150)
*we serve mimosas and guarantee inappropriate conversation.
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Congratulations to SRL alum
Stephanie Davis
for landing an agent at Park Literary Group in NYC (the same agency that represents NYT Bestseller Emily Giffen) for her manuscript, All in Good Time: A Memoir About the People I No Longer Know.
"I pitched just like we discussed in your workshop!" says Stephanie. To see how she did it, CLICK HERE.
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