Marie Whittaker
Author. Project Manager. Career Catalyst.
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Marie Whittaker is an award-winning essayist and novelist. She created The Adventures of Lola Hopscotch, Legendary Roots, and many of her stories appear in anthologies, including Weird Tales. She enjoys teaching about project and time management for creatives. She’s worked as a truck driver and raft guide and is now Associate Publisher at WordFire Press and Executive Director for Superstars Writing Seminars. Marie is a Colorado native, mom to two adult children and Grammy to one who is made of pure magic. Marie enjoys hiking, gardening, and renovating her historic Victorian home. She’s an advocate against animal abuse, a dog mom, cat mom, and bunny mom. Learn more at mariewhittaker.com.
One Man's Villain is Another Man's Hero
What makes a great hero in fiction? Join Jonathan Maberry and Marie Whittaker to explore the traits that make a villain that readers love almost as much as the hero of the story.
Sustainable Project Management for Creatives
The project management method taught in this workshop encompasses the Writer's Life and helps creatives to find the work-life balance using a deep dive into life-mapping and a custom, agile model designed with creatives in mind.
PUBLISHING 101
Writing is an art; publishing is a business. You can super-charge your career by learning how the business works.
Talk taught with Jonathan Maberry. Marie has published three of his titles and the pair can speak to working together as author and publisher.
THE GENRE OF YOU
Book genre labels matter more to publishers and booksellers than they should to writers.
Talk taught with Jonathan Maberry. Many of the most successful writers ignore genre/sub-genre labels and focus on telling the best story they can…and then work on selling them. This allows for the creative freedom of cross-genre and multi-genre without the burden of limits.
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