Sherry Morris sold the first story she wrote. More than a dozen novellas and novels later, she's sold every tale she's ever written. Her obscure eBook, Immaculate Deception, won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Small Press Paranormal Romance. Sherry is a motivational speaker and workshop presenter. She also writes critically acclaimed and award winning steamy romance as Sammie Jo Moresca. Her most memorable research to date was kissing and cuddling three members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sherry was born in the District of Columbia, where her parents worked behind the scenes to protect our nation's leaders. She is an Election Official with power of arrest on Election Day. Before kids, Sherry was a medical claims analyst for a federal health benefit plan. She has toiled as a Kelly Girl, substitute teacher, stenographer, sales associate and day care provider. Her favorite job was at a hospital documenting the births and administering paternity oaths to unmarried fathers. When Sherry's not writing, she's riding the rails and living happily ever after with her hunky hero and their adorable children.

Short Story and Novella Secrets

Tired of the form rejections to your query letters? Wish you had some writing credentials to signal New York editors and agents you are a competent writer? Are neighbors and family members rolling their eyes at you when they ask for the umpteenth time "Aren't you published yet?"

Shh...there is a way to earn publishing credentials so the editors and agents will start requesting your manuscripts. Just write a memorable short story or novella and sell it to an eBook publisher.

Learn the inside scoop on ePublishers. You can take that hopelessly stuck work-in-progress and shape it into an exciting short story. Don't have one? No fear. Learn techniques for conjuring great plots. You'll be guided through your sagging middles and learn what to leave out and always include. By the end of the three week course, students will have completed at least the first draft of a short story and know which markets to submit it to. This is an excellent method for gaining publication credit while waiting for your novel to be discovered.

Write a Book in Three Months

Determined to finally finish that tome? Can't understand why you keep rewriting the same sentence? Are you drooling every time one of your chapter mates breaks into print?

Sherry Morris will teach you how to plot your book in an hour. How to motivate yourself to reach and surpass your goal of becoming a published author, or at least an author who has finished his or her darned manuscript.

You think you don't have any time in your busy day to write something brilliant? Writing is like exercise, you must make the time or suffer the consequences. You don't want your life to pass you by without seeing your book finished. And like exercise, you don't have to block out an hour each day or even a half an hour. Tiny little snippets written in a few minutes stolen several times each week day will add up to fifty pages a week. Really!

ePublishing 101

Everything you've always wanted to know about ePublishing, go ahead and ask Sherry Morris. She's had over a dozen stories in eBook form and survived five publishers closing.

Learn how to find a publisher, what genres do well and how much money you can reasonably expect to earn. Sherry Morris will talk you through all the steps from your query letter, to your revision letter, to your contract offer, to your cover art form, to your edits, to your ISBNs, to your reviews, to your promotion and finally to your royalty check.

Cyberspace is the new publishing frontier, and they are willing to go places with stories the traditional print publishers fear to tread. If you write out of the box, you can find a nice little niche anyhow with ePublishing.