Victoria Groves, freelance writer and instructor

The Art of the Press Release
At the end of this three-week course, you will have completed a press release template that is ready to fax, email and mail to all the media outlets you can get your hands on. And you'll have the technique mastered that will help you do it again and again and ultimately, become a press release pro.

Cash in on Newsletter Writing and Publishing: How to Land Corporate Clients
If you want to diversify your writing assignments, earn steady income and flex your creativity muscle, this course will teach you how to do it by gaining and retaining newsletter clients. The course covers steps from marketing your skills to delivering your first newsletter to a client. Subjects covered include pitch letters, fee negotiation, marketing ideas and research pointers.

Cash in on Teens and Tweens: Breaking into the Adolescent Nonfiction Market
Cash in on Teens and Tweens is a six-week course that covers finding markets, writing effective queries, mastering today's teen slang, tone development, rewriting and reselling articles, and more, including how to create focus groups to research new ideas and articles!

Local Newspaper and Magazine Markets: Tap into Yours!
No matter where you live, there are local editors in desperate need of good freelance writers. From daily and weekly newspapers to regional magazines, if you have a knack for capturing local flavor, are available to cover events, and are good with deadlines, a whole new writing market is at your fingertips. Publication is fast, and in most cases, payment is as well. Through Local newspaper and magazine markets: Tap into yours!, you will learn how to approach a local editor with a goal of securing regular freelance assignments, tips on writing articles that will leave them (and your readers) asking for more, and how to use your clips as a launching pad for even more work. This course is valuable to both new and established freelance writers interested in earning more money from their writing and increasing their publication potential.