Description
Life is ALWAYS going to be “lifing.” Between work, family obligations, school, the occasional crisis, and being flat-out tired at the end of the day, if you wait for the perfect moment, you’ll never complete that story you’ve dreamed of.
The good news is you don’t have to wait! This workshop will show you a foolproof method for writing your story despite everything you’ve got going on in your life.
You also get:
- Cerece’s “How to Finish Your First Novel” cheat sheet
- A sample chapter outline from Cerece’s own “Order of the Seers”
Join best-selling and award-winning author, Cerece Rennie Murphy, as she shares the process that enabled her to write and publish over 13 books and short stories in 12 years while holding down a full-time job, raising two kids, and starting an online convention. If she can do it, so can you!
DATE: May 2, 2025 — Friday
TIME: 1pm ET | 12pm CT | 11am MT | 10am PT | 17:00 UTC
Instructor Bio
Cerece Rennie Murphy is the national bestselling and award-winning author of ten novels, children’s books, and short stories. She is also the founder of Virtuous Con, an online science fiction and comic culture convention that celebrates the excellence of BIPOC creators in speculative fiction, across the mediums of fiction, comics, film, and visual arts.
Ms. Murphy is the recipient of Black Pearls Magazine’s Author of the Year Award for Children’s Literature, the National Best Sellers designation from the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC), and the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)’s Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and related genres community. Created in 2008, Ms. Murphy joins the ranks of distinguished previous Solstice Award winners, including Petra Mayer, Carl Sagan, Octavia Butler, and Gardner Dozois.
Ms. Murphy lives and writes just outside her hometown of Washington, DC with her family.
