Classic Plus Prepare Ahead Classes

This Time Writing For PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE!!

Last spring, to get the writers ready for the Anthology workshop and to help them understand what the book editor’s at the anthology workshop wanted, we did a series of Prepare Ahead classes on the WMG Writer Store.

Each class had a interview by the book editor, guidelines, and ten videos about how to write short stories for that specific sub-genre. Lots and lots of good information.

And then the writers wrote for the anthology.

I was reading for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine at the Anthology Workshop, but the book editors had first choice of a story written for them. I still bought 7 stories for the magazine and would have bought more but the editors took the stories.

By the way, those six books will be Fiction River anthologies this coming year in the relaunch of Fiction River.

So all that work to do the Prepare Ahead classes and all that information to help writers was just sitting there and we decided to turn them into Classic Plus classes, only instead of writing for the anthologies, you would be writing for Pulphouse.

We left the ten videos in each and the book editor interviews, but the guidelines are to write a story for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.

So a few things…

— If you were in the Prepare Ahead class for the anthology workshop and wrote a story for the anthology, even if the editor didn’t take it, you can’t write another. One shot per class to either the anthology or Pulphouse.

— If you were in the Prepare Ahead class for the anthology and did not get a story in on time, you can send it to me following the guidelines for Pulphouse.

— You can send me one story per Classic Plus Prepare Ahead. Only one. No deadline, but you must follow the guidelines in the class.

— Cost is $150 per class. Get all six for the price of four.

Names of the Classic Plus Prepare Ahead classes…

• Cozy Mystery
• Fantasy Regency (Yes I bought a few from there.)
• Ghosts and Taverns
• Halloween Romance
• Military Science Fiction
• Science Fiction Mystery

My suggestion is that if you think you couldn’t write a story for one of those topics, that is the one to push yourself to do.

Again each class has an interview with the original book editor, ten videos on how to write for that sub-genre, and the guidelines on how to send a story to me for Pulphouse. (These are very similar to the Pop-Up classes for the same price, only these have a live market.)

Get these on the WMG Writer Store. (No Teachable subscriptions apply I am afraid.) I am really looking forward to reading some of these stories.

And if you are wondering about my general Pulphouse reading, I have about six stories left to read from the last special Pulphouse workshops, then I will be starting into reading the stories sent as the stretch goal (HEAT WAVE) in August. That should take me just a week or so.

So here is a chance to learn about sub-genres and write in that sub-genre for Pulphouse.

No deadlines. At your own pace. Keep the learning and the writing fun.