Greetings and Salutations my friends! Amazingly we are quarter into 2023 and SPRING HAS ARRIVED! I’m extremely excited to share my upcoming Indiana Writers Center Class Schedule for Spring Semester 2023! Please see the links below: Course Information Elements of Fiction 2.0: Discounted BundleInstructor: John F. AllenDates: 4 Wednesdays: May 03, 17, 31, June 14 2023Time: 7:00-10:00 PM ESTLocation: ZoomNonmemberContinue reading “INDIANA WRITERS CENTER CLASSES FOR SPRING SEMESTER 2023”
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INDIANA WRITERS CENTER CLASSES FOR WINTER SEMESTER 2023
INDIANA WRITERS CENTER CLASSES FOR WINTER SEMESTER 2023
Greetings and Salutations my friends!
We’ve entered a BRAND-NEW YEAR, full of growth and promise. I’m excited to share my upcoming Indiana Writers Center Class Schedule for Winter/Spring Semester 2023!
COME JOIN ME FOR MY FREE SELF-PUBLISHING CLASS AT THE 2022 INDYPL AUTHOR FAIR ON SATURDAY 8/6/2022
John F. Allen will be featured author and panelist at Imaginarium Convention
This weekend is the first-ever Imaginarium Convention in Louisville, KY, a new type of creator/reader friendly convention, in which Seventh Star Press is front and center. I’ll be in the Seventh Star Press section with my Indy author peeps R.J. Sullivan and Eric Garrison, selling The God Killers, my debut novel and Book I in aContinue reading “John F. Allen will be featured author and panelist at Imaginarium Convention”
INCONJUNCTION SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY CONVENTION 2014 IS THIS COMING WEEKEND!!!
Inconjunction Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention 2014 is being held on the east side of Indianapolis, this Fourth of July weekend! It’s an awesome local event celebrating all things within the speculative fiction realms. This year I’m attending as part of the Speculative Fiction Guild (SFG) and we’re hitting the con in a big way. Continue reading “INCONJUNCTION SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY CONVENTION 2014 IS THIS COMING WEEKEND!!!”
IMAGINARIUM 2014 ANNOUNCED!
Welcome to Imaginarium 2014, a creative writing convention where ideas transcend reality! I am excited and extremely proud to announce that coming to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky from September 19-21 of 2014 is, The Imaginarium! This is a unique kind of convention offering a wealth of programming, events, and all kinds ofContinue reading “IMAGINARIUM 2014 ANNOUNCED!”
SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?
FIVE THINGS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BEGIN A CAREER AS A WRITER Many people who aren’t writers or who aspire to one day write the “NEXT BEST THING” have absolutely no idea what a writing life entails. It is because of their skewed and/or misguided ideas on what being a writer is about thatContinue reading “SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?”
THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
When I was a child, my grandmother told me one day, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” At first I didn’t understand what she meant. Later, as I got a little older I refused to believe her, and was determined to prove her wrong. Finally, when I began focusing on my career as a writer,Continue reading “THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN”
THE REWARDS OF WRITING
When I first started seriously pursuing my writing goals some three years ago, my life changed in ways that at the time I could have never imagined. Over the years, relationships formed with some very amazing people, who I never would have had the honor of knowing otherwise. My writing skills have improved and I’mContinue reading “THE REWARDS OF WRITING”
HOW TO CREATE A WRITER’S PLATFORM AND WHY?
As writers, we’re inclined to devote much of our time in the pursuit of our main objective and that’s to write. Most writers make lousy business people, unless their background is in a business related field. We are imaginative people who have a passion to create, so we tend to be oblivious to the businessContinue reading “HOW TO CREATE A WRITER’S PLATFORM AND WHY?”
