WRITE A BOOK
Learn how to start writing a book, and most importantly how to finish it!
Take homes include but are not limited to:
- Discover how to start, plan and write your book.
- Understand how to turn your dream to write a novel into reality by creating a writing plan that suits you.
- See how unlocking your brain to find the right words can get you on your way to achieving your book writing dream.
- Master the art of writing clearly with genuine human emotion to get people turning the page and wanting more of your words!
This workshop is a perfect match for everyone! Whether you want to write fact or fiction, or somewhere inbetween, this workshop is an ideal starting point.
“Melissa’s writing workshops always receive high praise and she keeps the sessions moving. During the snack breaks she is always very chatty with the writers answering questions. Everyone loves her workshops.” Amanda Dalziel, President, Far South Coast Writers Association
Melissa also offers other book writing and publishing workshops including:
PUBLISH YOUR BOOK
You’ve written your book, now it’s time to publish. Discover what you need to know before you decide how to get your book in your readers’ hands. Traditional publishing or publishing your way? This workshop outlines and ups and downs of getting published to help you decide which path you want to follow.
BUILD YOUR AUTHOR PROFILE
With almost three decades in media and marketing, Melissa will teach you how to create your author brand and step out from behind your pages into the public to sell more books and turn your book writing dream into a business.
SELL YOUR BOOKS
Discover how to sell your books from pre-launch to launch to beyond. Melissa published her first book in 2013 and more than a decade later, her debut novel is attracting new readers every day.
Tap into Melissa’s extensive knowledge on writing, editing, publishing, marketing, media, events, celebrating the completion of your book and generating book sales long after the book launch buzz has died down.
For almost three decades, Melissa has been helping business owners, project managers, community leaders and everyday people in rural and regional Australia understand who they are, what they do, why they do it. She also helped lead a whole community to choosing the right bin in one of Australia’s most successful and groundbreaking waste management campaigns. AND she’s a bestselling author, a leading voice for missing people and child safety and gathered donations of over $100,000 of new books to gift back to her local community devastated by fire.
In a world of relentless AI intrusion, Melissa writes real words and tells real stories – even her bestselling crime novels are grounded in reality.
Melissa’s writing will have a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life.
Using words to make sense of life is something Melissa specialises in.
Over a five-year period she wrote around one million words as part of an intense effort to discover the truth about her cousin Ursula Barwick’s disappearance in 1987.
Most of these words were fictional, made-up stories, made up characters, made up storylines that she put into bestselling crime novels. Writing was Melissa’s way of trying to make sense of the ambiguous loss she had been holding in her busy brain for several decades since she was 15.
After 30 years, Ursula was found, proving that words have power.
“Ursula had been missing for 30 years before being found, and Melissa’s concentrated drive over a five-year period to find her family answers through storytelling, the media and close collaboration across relevant agencies is a testament to her initiative and commitment.” Marina Simoncini, Australian Federal Police
Melissa sees the potential in everything and helps others see it too.
Melissa lives, works, breathes and adventures in rural and regional Australia. Her work is strongly community-based – real stories, real people, real news.
She lives and breathes genuine connections and communication. These are what keep rural and regional communities and businesses thriving.
Melissa’s written ability, not only as an author, but in respect to media pieces and corporate briefs, is exceptional – Marina Simoncini, AFP
Her natural, down-to-earth presenting style and workshops inspire people to not only strive to be better, but to take what they’ve learnt to completely change their lives.
Let’s not give the power and what makes you unique to a computer that mines words and spits them back at us full of Americanisms, cliches and poor punctuation.
Join Melissa at her writing table and unlock your own individual, unique writing power.
WRITE A BOOK
When you book Melissa Pouliot for a book writing workshop, your brain will be so fired up you will be ready the conquer the world and finish that book!
She has been a word artist and storyteller her entire life, with her first story published in her local newspaper at just eight years old when she wrote clear instructions for Santa to get into houses without chimneys to deliver presents.
Words have served her well in a fast-paced, self-driven media marketing career that has taken her into isolated rural communities in outback Queensland, the tiny town where the much-loved television series The Flying Doctors was filmed, to the Back O’ Bourke and the Far South Coast of NSW.
The more she wrote, the better her words became.
Now it’s time for her to pass this knowledge, experience and passion for writing onto others.
You are invited to join Melissa at her writing table. It will be fun!