Arche Year Syllabus

Students will have access to the full Arche Year course videos on-demand.  You may watch the videos as often as you’d like.

As part of our Supported or Premium Arche Year plans, your facilitator will build a customized schedule for you. 1-3 weeks is typically provided between units to give students extra time to implement the previous unit’s content.

Students will practice these skills and put this information into practice over the course of the program. Successful students will complete the program with a professionally developed novel ready to be shopped to agents or published, as well as a solid author marketing platform (including a website, social media, mailing list, and more) and business infrastructure.

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Arche Year Classes

Novel Writing Class 

A 4-week novel-writing intensive will teach students how to develop, organize, and execute nearly any novel concept. Students may bring an existing idea, but the course will also help students to develop ideas from scratch.

Industry Knowledge

This seminar series will teach writers about the publishing industry. Students will learn how books are produced, about different types of publishing companies (and scams!), and a paradigm for effectively growing an audience (a “platform”) as an author.

Publishing Industry
Book Production
Platform Building Basics

Defining Your Business

This class series will guide students through the process of setting up a legal entity to do business and protect their interests. You will learn basic bookkeeping, form an LLC in your state, and begin to explore creating an author brand.

What You Are – Legal Considerations
Who You Are – Identity and Branding
Staying Out of Trouble – Record Keeping, Taxes, and Accounting

Connection

Students will learn how to set up a complete, professional online presence. You will build a website, launch a mailing list, and create a professional social media presence.

Connection Overview and Internet Basics
Building a WordPress Website Step-by-step
WordPress Basic Operations/Understanding and Q&A
Social Media Setup
Mailing List Setup

Content

Students will learn to craft content that brings value to the world and grows their audiences. You will learn best practices for blogging, learn how to effectively engage and grow your audience with a newsletter, connect with real readers on social media, and position your website content for longterm results.

Blog Writing
Effective Email Newsletters
Social Media Content
Evergreen Content

Exposure

Students will learn strategies and techniques for gaining new audiences for their content. Now that you have a professional online presence and awesome content to share, you’ll learn how to get more people in front of your stuff so that you can grow a big audience for your work.

Paid & Earned Social Media Exposure
Lead Magnets
Networking

Next Steps

By this point in the program, students should be completing their novel manuscripts. The final class series will coach students on finding publishing opportunities, avoiding scams, and working with agents, publishers, and self-publishing service providers.

Finding & Evaluating Publishing Opportunities
Query Letters
Final Question & Answer Session

Course Commitment

Students are expected to devote 10 hours per week to the course. This time commitment includes classes and meetings, as well as independent work periods.

Students will put the information from these classes into practice over the course of the program. At the completion of the program, students will have a solid start to their professional author platform, including a website, social media presence, and mailing list.

Students are encouraged to have $1,000 available over the course of the program to invest in themselves. This money will be spent at their discretion, on their behalf, for things such as web hosting, business registration, branding development, and social media promotions. All purchases will be made through third-party vendors of the student’s choosing, at the student’s discretion.

Arche Year Support

As a member of our Supported or Premium Arche Year plans, you’ll meet weekly with a professional published author in a small group with other Arche Year students. Your facilitator will answer questions about the video class you’ve watched in the previous week, and help you apply the lesson to your unique plans.

Ready to get started? Register for your Cohort here.