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New! Writing Retreats & Workshops

Getting writers -- and their characters --

off the couch and into transformative places.

Do you want to elevate your writing in a welcoming community where you can share your work and get feedback?

 

To be inspired and given time to write, reflect, and draft?

 

Do you want to create rich, compelling character arcs and develop a strong and transformative Sense of Place?

I am excited to offer both online and in-person opportunities to develop writing techniques and craft.

Fill out this survey to let me know which topics you are most interested in, and which in-person destinations are most appealing. I'll notify you when new online or in-person retreat events are scheduled so you can join in a welcoming, immersive experience to advance your writing goals!

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Setting & Sense of Place
for Writers

Learn how to elevate your fiction's setting, build strong character arcs, and develop a robust Sense of Place. Build stories that simply couldn't happen anywhere else.

 

Holly's workshops, surveys, and prompts will to get you going.

Writing Prompts
for Fiction Writers

writing prompt for writers

Is your character in the right PLACE?

Advance your writing using these inspiring prompts.

Get the best writing prompts to boost your setting's impact

You'll receive a PDF with helpful information, writing guidance, and prompts to develop settings so relevant to your story that it couldn't happen anywhere else

How to Write a Book Proposal

book proposal coaching

Your manuscript deserves the BEST pitch and proposal to captivate and inspire an agent or editor to buy it. Work with 8X international author Holly Bellebuono to develop your strongest book proposal, pitch, and promo materials. For those seeking an agent as well as self-publishing nonfiction.

Book Event Speaker for Setting for Fiction
Holly Bellebuono books

Rebecca

“Holly, you are the first to know that [the editor] has just emailed me to say they will take my book! Your book proposal class was extremely helpful. I am excited and nervous and very appreciative for your invaluable help! Thank you so much!”

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