After the success of the first Superstars Writing Seminar in Pasadena, Kevin and Rebecca will again be joining bestselling authors Brandon Sanderson, Dave Wolverton, and Eric Flint to present another three-day set of intensive lectures.  This time, the team will be joined by guest instructor Sherrilyn Kenyon, author of the popular Dark Hunter series; she’s had fourteen #1 New York Times bestsellers in the last two years!

The Superstars Writing Seminar is a practical, no-nonsense course on business topics for the professional writer.  Topics include:

Economics of Commercial Publishing

How Editors Look at Manuscripts, Novels, and Short Fiction

Dissecting a Book Contract

How to Read and Understand a Royalty Statement

Dirty Secrets: What You Need to Know About Being a Professional Author

How to Leverage Your Intellectual Property

Balancing Acts: Writing World and Real World

Agents

Networking and Self-Promotion for Authors

Understanding E-Books

Pitching the Big Proposal

Two Heads Are Better than One: Collaborations

How to Get an Edge with New Media

Movies, TV, and Authors

How to Increase Your Writing Productivity

—and more, including open Q&A sessions, a special limited-seating VIP banquet to get to know the instructors, and plenty of networking opportunities among the teachers, other writers, and fellow students.

Dates are January 13–15, 2011 (Thursday–Saturday, the weekend before the national holiday of Martin Luther King Day).  Early-bird pricing is still in effect, but prices will go up at the end of October.  For more information and to sign up, go to www.superstarswritingseminars.com.

INSTRUCTORS:

Kevin J. Anderson—award-winning, international bestselling author of the new Dune series (with Brian Herbert), the Terra Incognita and Saga of Seven Suns series, X-Files, Star Wars, and numerous comics; he has published 100 books, with more than 20 million copies in print in 30 languages.

Eric Flint—A master of military science fiction and alternate history, Eric is best known for his 1632 and Belisarius series (with David Drake). An expert in electronic publishing, he was also the founder and editor of Jim Baen’s Universe online magazine.

Rebecca Moesta—Award-winning and New York Times bestselling Young Adult author of Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Star Challengers, the Crystal Doors series, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Little Things. She also holds a Masters of Science in Business Administration from Boston University and is the CEO and business manager for WordFire, Inc.

Brandon Sanderson—A New York Times bestselling author in his own right for his Mistborn series, Brandon was selected to complete Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time. The first volume, The Gathering Storm, immediately reached #1 on the bestseller lists.  He also writes successful Young Adult fiction and lectures on creative writing for BYU.

Dave Wolverton—Author of 50 novels, Guinness World Record holder for the largest single-author signing, multiple New York Times bestselling author (under the names Dave Wolverton and David Farland).  Dave worked for nearly a decade as coordinating judge for one of the world’s largest writing contests.

Sherrilyn Kenyon—Bestselling author of the Dark Hunter series, The League, and the Chronicles of Nick.  In the past two years, Sherri’s books have hit the #1 New York Times bestseller spot an amazing 14 times.