OUTLIERS INTENSIVES CLASS SCHEDULE
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Sessions are LIVE, interactive, and taught by best-selling authors and other professionals
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Each class is recorded and made available to registered attendees for 10 days so if you miss it or simply want to watch it again it's there for you.
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2-12-25: Writing Tools: From Paper to Scrivener
Instructor: Tammy Euliano
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 4 pm Pacific
A ZOOM Event
Course Fee: $30
Registration Coming Soon
Writers start with a blank page, but should it be paper or electronic? A standard word processor or specialized software? This class will introduce options for planning, writing, and editing your novel with a focus on software tools, including Plottr and Scrivener.
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Tammy Euliano’s writing is inspired by her day job as a physician, researcher and educator at University of Florida. She’s received numerous teaching awards, ~100,000 views of her YouTube teaching videos, and was featured in a calendar of women inventors. In addition to award-winning short fiction, she writes medical thrillers including Fatal Intent (2021) and Misfire (2023) published by Oceanview. Kathy Reichs called it, “Medical suspense as sharp as it gets.”
Website www.teuliano.com
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2-25-25: The Mystical Quest: Finding a Literary Agent—Harry Hunsicker
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4 pm Pacific
A ZOOM Event
Course Fee: $30
Registration Coming Soon
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Using hard-fought lessons gleaned from his road to publication, veteran mystery writer Harry Hunsicker discusses the publishing process, literary agents, how to craft a query letter that will generate a positive response and strategies for finding the right agent for your book.
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Harry Hunsicker is the bestselling author of nine crime thrillers, including The Life and Death of Rose Doucette (October 2024). He’s also written numerous short stories and a recently produced short screenplay, which has received numerous accolades. His prose work has been short-listed for both the Shamus and Thriller Awards. Hunsicker is the former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America and in 2019 he served as Toastmaster for the 50th anniversary of Bouchercon, the world mystery conference.
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4-7-25: Book To Doc: The Making of a True Crime Series
Instructors: Dr. Katherine Ramsland and Tracy Ullman
Monday, April 7, 2025, 4 pm Pacific
A 90-Minute ZOOM Event
Course Fee: $30
Registration Coming Soon
Documentary producer/investigative journalist Tracy Ullman and author/expert on criminology Katherine Ramsland have successfully partnered to move two true crime books into multi-episode documentary series. Using their work with Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer, and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr, an accomplice to Dean Corll, they will take you through the steps of pitching, selling, and producing a complex documentary.
1. The book: It starts with the book, which provides the locations, research, and potential subject for interviews.
Katherine and Tracy will talk about what it took to write a book and why these subjects were of interest broadly.
2. The Pitch: How to identify likely buyers and set up pitch sessions.
Every idea needs to have a champion in a very competitive TV market. How to identify TV brands that match with your content and then develop the idea.
3. The Sale: What happens with an option and how to survive the production process.
Someone wants to option your book and make it into a TV production. Know your rights during this process and how to make sure you are attached, so you have some say in the outcome.
4. Marketing: As production wraps, what happens with marketing?
Your story and the story being presented on TV can be two separate entities. We'll discuss publicists and social media strategies to maximize the audience for your "original intellectual property."
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Dr. Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology and behavioral criminology in the graduate program at DeSales University. She has appeared as an expert on more than 250 crime documentaries and was an executive producer on Murder House Flip and A&E’s Confession of a Serial killer: BTK. The author of more than 1,800 articles and 73 books, including Confession of a Serial Killer, The Serial Killer’s Apprentice and How to Catch a Killer, she pens a regular blog for Psychology Today. She has also written a fiction series based on a female forensic psychologist who consults on death investigations. Dead-Handed is her most recent book.
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Tracy Ullman is a documentary producer, director, and writer in Chicago. She has produced dozens of non-fiction television programs for Discovery Networks, Oxygen, AETN Networks, and PBS. Her most recent production is a six-part limited documentary series about serial murderer John Wayne Gacy and the new discoveries made in his case for NBC’s Peacock streaming service.
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4-9-25: Screenwriting is WRITING--Paul Guyot
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Despite dozens of books and websites telling you screenwriting is simply a math formula to follow, that is 100% untrue. Learn how actual working, professional screenwriters write through this interactive and entertaining course taught by a working professional screenwriter for 25 consecutive years. Learn how to find your Voice, the truth about Structure, and most importantly, learn how NOT to do it!
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 4 pm Pacific
A ZOOM Session
Course Fee: $30
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Registration Coming Soon
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PAUL GUYOT has written and produced more than 200 hours of television. He served as showrunner on the TNT hit series THE LIBRARIANS. He was the Co-Executive Producer for NCIS: NEW ORLEANS -- at the time the 8th most watched series in the world.
Guyot co-wrote the Warner Brothers film GEOSTORM starring Gerard Butler and Andy Garcia, which grossed more than a quarter billion dollars worldwide. But don’t hold it against him.
He has adapted books and foreign films for multiple studios, and most recently is producing a pair of independent feature films.
He is the author of KILL THE DOG: The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth, which was an Amazon bestseller upon its release in 2023. It’s available in print, ebook and audio everywhere books are sold.
Guyot attended the University of Arizona. In his non-writing time he enjoys golf, cycling, mechanical watches, and has been called the Tony Hawk of making old fashioneds.
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5-21-25: Writing Character Driven Stories
J. Todd Scott in conversation with Stacy Woodson
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 4 pm Pacific
A ZOOM Session
Course Fee: $30
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Registration Coming Soon
In this interactive session, J. Todd Scott and Stacy Woodson will discuss their approach to character driven storytelling: how they choose characters, what makes characters compelling, and how characters inform plot in their novels, short stories, and screenplays. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and a one-page handout summarizing the session will accompany the recording.
J. Todd Scott was born in rural Kentucky and put aside an early ambition to write to pursue a long career as a federal agent. His assignments once took him all over the U.S and the world, but a badge and gun never replaced his passion for stories and writing. He’s authored six critically acclaimed crime, suspense, and thriller novels, including the Chris Cherry/Big Bend trilogy (THE FAR EMPTY, HIGH WHITE SUN, THIS SIDE OF NIGHT) and most recently, the 2024 International Thriller Writers Award finalist for Best Paperback Original, CALL THE DARK. He’s also a film/TV producer and screenwriter, including the Lawmen: Bass Reeves series, for Paramount+ He is represented by Michelle Richter of the Fuse Literary Agency.
Stacy Woodson is a U.S. Army veteran and former paratrooper. Memories of her time in the military are often a source of inspiration for her stories. She made her crime fiction debut in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s Department of First Stories and won the Readers Award—the second time in the award’s history that a debut took first place. Since then, she’s published nearly forty stories in various publications, one adapted for animation. She is a two-time Derringer winner for best short story (four-time nominee), a Thriller and Macavity Award nominee, and featured in The Best Mysteries of the Year 2024. A member of SAG-AFTRA, when she’s not writing she works as background talent for movies and television. Past projects include Showtime’s Homeland, Amazon’s Jack Ryan, AMC’s The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon's Terminal List: Dark Wolf.
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OUTLIERS INTENSIVES COMPLETED
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4-3-24: The Story Cube: An In-depth Exploration of What Truly Lies at the Heart of All Great Stories--Steven James
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4-29-24: Sources of Inspiration For Writers--Joseph Badal
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5-8-24: Writing the TV Drama Pilot--Matt Witten
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5-14-24: Constructing/Deconstructing the Perfect Fictional Murder—DP Lyle
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5-22-24: Make It Real: A Q&A With Homicide Investigator Lt. Brandon Watkins
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6-12-24: The Autopsy of a Thriller: Deconstructing The Terminator--DP Lyle
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7-10-24: Crack the Amazon Code: Earn More Royalties, Sell More Books, and Promote Your Author Career!--Vincent Davis
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7-29-24: A Book Proposal Coach’s Secrets To Selling Your Non-Fiction Book--Amy B. Scher
8-7-24: Missing Persons Investigations: The Nuts, Bolts, and Inside Information--PI John Ferriso
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10-2-24: Give Readers a Reason to Care--Stacy Woodson and Dawn Alexander
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10-14-24: Research Tools for True Crime Writers--Dr. Katherine Ramsland and Tracy Ullman
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11-13-24: Raise Your OQ: The Psychology of Observation for Crime Writers--Dr. Katherine Ramsland
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