Academic Warriors provides the opportunity to experience what life is like as an author working with a publishing house through our Young Authors program. Students enrolled in the Young Author program learn the writing process, techniques used by authors to organize their thoughts and how to work with a publisher. At the conclusion of the program, students would have published at least two novels, a children's book and have stories in two anthologies. Crimson Sparrow, our publishing house, will release their books via Amazon, Smashwords, Google, iBooks and more. Students can earn prizes via The Climb program for the amount of books they sell for a single title. 

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Cost

$160  per month

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Program Length

98 weeks or 1 year 10 months

(with two breaks in between steps)

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Schedule

Classes meet weekly via Zoom.

Students are given two week breaks in between each step. 

Meeting times are flexible as long as the entire class and teacher agrees.

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New enrollments begin every month for each step.

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Benefits

Steps 1 - 3  (38 weeks)

Stories are published in an anthology.

Students may have the option to have their stories published as children's books.

If the parents decide to sign a publishing contract, the student will have the option to use professional artist or use their own artwork within the children's book.

Students will experience working with a professional editor during the editing process.

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Step 4 (8 weeks) 

The story is published as a children's book in print and ebook.

Students will have the option to use professional artist or use their own artwork.

Students will experience working with a professional editor during the editing process.

 

Step 5 (40 weeks) 

A  story is published as a novel in print and ebook.

Students will experience working with a professional editor during the editing process.

 

NOTE: Students in the Young Authors Program attend this course during the Summer Quarter so they may have the opportunity to have more than one novel published through Crimson Sparrow. 

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