Description
On Sale During the CI-Reboot, through June 27
Registration for the 2025 How to Write a CI Novel (Over the Summer!) course REGISTRATION DEADLINE TUESDAY, APRIL 22. FIRST LIVE SESSION APRIL 23.
How to write a Comprehensible Novel for Language Learners. Advice and guidance from published authors to assist language teachers in writing over the summer, beta testing in classes in the fall and independently publishing and marketing their own CI novels.
A 20+ hour course by authors, publishers, distributors and award-winning mainstream authors to help language teachers create comprehension-based novels and materials for their own students or to sell to other language learners. These courses are designed to help teacher-authors write over the summer and be ready to pilot a novel draft with their students at the beginning of the next school year.
We also hire mainstream, best-selling authors from other genres to teach us about the craft of writing. It’s about more than teaching vocabulary in the target language!
2025 sessions with be live in April and May, 2025
2025 live sessions in April and May
MARKETING, Markeyla Henton , Boss BelieveHer (recording uploaded to Teachable)
The Contagious Effect – Amplify Your Influence and Make Your Message Unstoppable
Markeyla Henton (live book marketing session)
Wednesday evening, April 23, 2025, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
WRITING
Crafting High-Stakes Conflict Without Violence
Thursday May 8th, 2025 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
Not all tension comes from fights or chases. Learn how to build suspense through psychological warfare, emotional dilemmas, and social pressure, making for just as gripping (if not more intense) storytelling. (live session with award-winning psychological thriller author
Be Contagious Instead of Going Viral: The Power of Conversation In Book Marketing A 45-minute training on how to leverage automation, messaging and tagging to make your content grow legs regardless of whether the algorithm picks it up. If you knew you had a magic touch that would make the world better, you would touch everything. Your book is your magic touch! Specific to the marketing needs of published independent authors of CI novels.
COPYEDITING
New copyeditors for Spanish and French authors (Anne Ewing has retired).
Wednesday, May 14th, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
New copyeditors for Spanish and French authors (Anne Ewing has retired).
Wednesday, May 14th, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
Q and A with Spanish and French Copyeditors Pamela Glick Vásquez and Lauren Fosnight (live session)
SELF-PUBLISHING (date not scheduled)
Q and A with Adam Giedd on the nuts and bolts of self-publishing
Includes recorded access to 2020 -2024 sessions immediately. $150.00.
On demand sessions already available:
PREPARING TO WRITE A COMPREHENSIBLE NOVEL
Overview — How to Write a CI Novel, Karen Rowan
How to Write. CI Novel, July 31 2020, Agen Workshop, 1 hour
How to Write. CI Novel, July 31 2020, Agen Workshop, 1 hour
READING BEFORE WRITING
2020 Previewing CI Readers for Bias Panel Discussion Dahiana Castro, Adriana Ramirez, Anna Gilcher, A.C. Quintero 1 hour 31 minutes
2020 Previewing CI Readers for Bias Panel Discussion Dahiana Castro, Adriana Ramirez, Anna Gilcher, A.C. Quintero 1 hour 31 minutes
WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT
2022 Adriana Ramírez Before I get started, am I the author to write this story? What story am I the right author to write? Decolonization, Cultural Appropriation and Staying in our Lanes, 1 hour 7 minutes / Q and A 14 minutes
2020 Cultural Appropriation and Voice Adriana Ramírez and Margarita Peréz García 67 minutes
2020 Pushing the envelope: Tackling Controversial Topics Jennifer Degenhardt 25 minutes2020 Non-stereotyped portrayal of human roles in curriculum materials document
Elevated Education Consulting
Incorporating Diversity Rachelle Adams link to YouTube webinar
Diversity Positive Alternatives Rachelle Adams and Anna Gilcher NTPRS 2016 PDF
Building Diversity Positive Language in Classroom NTPRS Presentation PDF
Diversity Positive Alternatives
2022 Adriana Ramírez Before I get started, am I the author to write this story? What story am I the right author to write? Decolonization, Cultural Appropriation and Staying in our Lanes, 1 hour 7 minutes / Q and A 14 minutes
2020 Cultural Appropriation and Voice Adriana Ramírez and Margarita Peréz García 67 minutes
2020 Pushing the envelope: Tackling Controversial Topics Jennifer Degenhardt 25 minutes2020 Non-stereotyped portrayal of human roles in curriculum materials document
Elevated Education Consulting
Incorporating Diversity Rachelle Adams link to YouTube webinar
Diversity Positive Alternatives Rachelle Adams and Anna Gilcher NTPRS 2016 PDF
Building Diversity Positive Language in Classroom NTPRS Presentation PDF
Diversity Positive Alternatives
– Japanese version translated by Melissa Urushidani .doc
THE WRITING PROCESS
WRITING AS CRAFT
2022 Steff Green, The Skeleton Draft Method 1 hour
2020 Writing Process A.C. Quintero 79 minutes
The Snowflake Method link book by R. Naermanson
2020 Using Scrivener to Write, Develop, Organize Research and Edit Anthony Flarisee 29 minutes
COMMITTING TO A WRITING SCHEDULE
2020 Writing Groups, How to Use a Writing Group, Bill VanPatten 1 hour 7 minutes
2022 Steff Green, The Skeleton Draft Method 1 hour
2020 Writing Process A.C. Quintero 79 minutes
The Snowflake Method link book by R. Naermanson
2020 Using Scrivener to Write, Develop, Organize Research and Edit Anthony Flarisee 29 minutes
COMMITTING TO A WRITING SCHEDULE
2020 Writing Groups, How to Use a Writing Group, Bill VanPatten 1 hour 7 minutes
RESEARCH
2020 How to do Research, Chris Mercer, 47 minutes
Researching location, culture and history. Researching/including culture and history into a novel or short story. Fact-checking.
2020 How to do Research, Chris Mercer, 47 minutes
Researching location, culture and history. Researching/including culture and history into a novel or short story. Fact-checking.
WHAT MAKES A CI NOVEL COMPREHENSIBLE?
2022 Margarita Peréz García, Writing for novice readers: Word counts, glossaries, loving and making language comprehensible, 58 minutes + 11 minutes
2020 Comprehensible Mysteries and Suspense with Theresa Marrama 32 minutes
2020 word counts, sheltering vocabulary with Margarita Peréz García 47 minutes
2020 Word Frequency and Glossaries Margarita Peréz García 1 hour 28 minutes
2022 Margarita Peréz García, Writing for novice readers: Word counts, glossaries, loving and making language comprehensible, 58 minutes + 11 minutes
2020 Comprehensible Mysteries and Suspense with Theresa Marrama 32 minutes
2020 word counts, sheltering vocabulary with Margarita Peréz García 47 minutes
2020 Word Frequency and Glossaries Margarita Peréz García 1 hour 28 minutes
WRITING
2022 Kris Kennedy, The 3 Keys to Crafting Turning Points, 1 hour 8 minutes
2023 Character Development, Conflict and Chasms. What we can learn from Romance Writing Kris Kennedy.
2022 CL Fails, The Lifecycle of a book, the importance of Story Arc and Writing Tips, 59 minutes
3 Killer Secrets for Writing Attention Getting Stories: Neuroscience and Story Writing (Dopamine)
2021 Neuroscience of Story Writing (Transportation and Mirror Neurons) Karen Rowan 13 minutes
2020 Showing not Telling, Dialogue and Personalized Readings Carla Tarini 31 minutes
2022 What if it’s not a novel? Other kinds of CI writing led by Carla Tarini
2023 Protagonist vs. Antagonist: Crafting Powerful Opposing Forces that Make Your Story Unforgettable Gledé Browne Kabongo (who writes psychological thrillers in English)
2023 Gledé Browne Kabongo who writes psychological thrillers
Plot Like a Boss: Screenwriting Techniques Novelists Should Use for Maximum Impact
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
2023 Getting Started – Writing Picture Books Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Children’s Book author of bilingual books with a focus on diversity and representation in children’s books.
2023 Getting Started – Writing Picture Books Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Children’s Book author of bilingual books with a focus on diversity and representation in children’s books.
2025 Crafting High-Stakes Conflict Without Violence Gledé Browne Kabongo
Not all tension comes from fights or chases. Learn how to build suspense through psychological warfare, emotional dilemmas, and social pressure, making for just as gripping (if not more intense) storytelling. (live session with award-winning psychological thriller author
EDITING
RE-WRITING
2020 Beta-Testing with A.C. Quintero 51 minutes
Slowing down.
Letting the story rest. Re-researching. Re-writing. Editing. Re-writing. Proofreading.
Second incubation period.
Classroom pilots, how to get feedback from pilots. What to do with it.
Slowing down.
Letting the story rest. Re-researching. Re-writing. Editing. Re-writing. Proofreading.
Second incubation period.
Classroom pilots, how to get feedback from pilots. What to do with it.
AFTER WRITING, BEFORE PUBLISHING
2020 Steps to Publishing your Comprehensible Novel Anny Ewing and Kirstin Plante 1 hour 23 minutes
2023 Anny Ewing, What’s Your Next Step?, will do a session walking through What writers should know about the editing process (what you need to do with your manuscript before sending it to a copyeditor)
COPYEDITING
New copyeditors for Spanish and French authors (Anne Ewing has retired).
Wednesday, May 14th, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
New copyeditors for Spanish and French authors (Anne Ewing has retired).
Wednesday, May 14th, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
2025 Q and A with Spanish and French Copyeditors Pamela Gick Vásquez and Lauren Fosnight (live session)
2023 ISBNs (5 minutes)(5:15) Karen Rowan
What to ask before you publish 16 minutes(16:10)
Bonus: How to Write a CI Novel Over the Summer Webinar 2016 Karen Rowan circa 2014 85 minutes
2023 Jodé Millman, Registering and Protecting your Copyrights
The Writer’s Law School, Jodé Millman. Attorney and author.Jodé is a lawyer and an author. She writes legal thrillers. She uses her law background to provide insight to authors. Her recorded session will be available May 4- May 31st only. She will schedule updates, including AI issues, at a later date.
2023 Theresa Caswell Jensen, The Nitty Gritty step-by-step of publishing through KDP. Start to finish hands on screen-shared walk through for beginners to self-publishing.
2025 Q and A with Adam Giedd on the nuts and bolts of self-publishing
SELLING A NOVEL
2023 Karen Rowan Book and Book Cover Design elements that help and hurt book sales and distribution. 30 minutes
2023 Karen Rowan Book and Book Cover Design elements that help and hurt book sales and distribution. 30 minutes
MARKETING
2025 Markeyla Henton , Boss BelieveHer (Available May, 2025)
The Contagious Effect – Amplify Your Influence and Make Your Message Unstoppable
Be Contagious Instead of Going Viral: The Power of Conversation In Book Marketing A 45-minute training on how to leverage automation, messaging and tagging to make your content grow legs regardless of whether the algorithm picks it up. If you knew you had a magic touch that would make the world better, you would touch everything. Your book is your magic touch! Specific to the marketing needs of published independent authors of CI novels.
The Contagious Effect – Amplify Your Influence and Make Your Message Unstoppable
Be Contagious Instead of Going Viral: The Power of Conversation In Book Marketing A 45-minute training on how to leverage automation, messaging and tagging to make your content grow legs regardless of whether the algorithm picks it up. If you knew you had a magic touch that would make the world better, you would touch everything. Your book is your magic touch! Specific to the marketing needs of published independent authors of CI novels.
