45-180 Minute Presentations by Jaimie Engle (*All Programs Available as VIRTUAL VISITS)

An award-winning novelist and screenwriter, Jaimie teaches at national conferences, state libraries, and local schools on the art of storytelling. Rates are available with/without books. Pick your program and use the contact form beneath to request pricing/availability for your school, conference, or group!

Ready to book now?

---

So You Think Your Book Could Be a Movie

A practical, myth-busting session that walks writers through the key differences between novel writing and screenwriting. I help authors understand what makes a story truly adaptable, and how to approach film/TV with clarity and confidence. Book available for expanded learning!

The Writer and the Machine

An accessible, practical talk on how I’ve used AI tools to co-develop and publish books, enhance client services, and streamline my business operations—designed for creators, consultants, and entrepreneurs looking to leverage AI without losing quality or voice. Book available for expanded learning!

Building Worlds, Creating Characters

Discover how to design story worlds so rich they naturally give rise to unforgettable characters. Learn how to weave theme, culture, and conflict into your setting so every character feels inevitable and every story resonates.

Write a Screenplay

A step-by-step process to move your idea into a screenplay, including how to build the logline, beat sheet, and act breaks so you can write your own script!

Break Into Hollywood From Anywhere*

I built my screenwriting career outside of Hollywood—without an agent, connections, or a coastal zip code—by leveraging strategy, voice, and platforms like LinkedIn. You can too!

*As a Masterclass, this includes “Learning LinkedIn”, “Write a Screenplay”, and “So, You Think Your Book Could Be a Movie.”

Plotting Profits

You’ve Finished a Book. Now What? It’s time to change hats from artist to entrepreneur to market and sell your amazing book. In this workshop session you will be provided with multiple ideas, actionable plans, and proven results. Book available for expanded learning!

Learning LinkedIn: Networking Best Practices

In this workshop you will learn how to use the LinkedIn homepage features as your best resume for producers, agents, actors and directors to connect, plus how to nurture those connections into relationships that end in contracts.

School Specific Presentations

Anti-Bullying: The Power of Words in Life & Literature

Based off the Clifton Chase Adventure Series, this presentation gets kids to think about the power of their words, the golden rule, developing empathy, and how to handle bullying through the characters and situations from the stories.

Finding Your Voice

Using the plot of ‘Metal Mouth’ as a reference, students will discover ways to find and craft their voice as a narrator, through character, and a writer to develop great fiction stories.

Storytelling through Comic Books

Learn how to think like a visual creator as you write a script for an artist to interpret into a comic book, plus what to do what you’re finished. Includes book “You Can Write a Comic” for creating a single issue.

Write a Work that Doesn’t Suck!*

Each writer will leave this intensive with a toolbox filled with tips they can use to write a Work that doesn’t suck! Based off the Publisher’s Weekly Book Life Prize in Non-Fiction Quarter Finalist “Write a Book that Doesn’t Suck” to include:

• Tell, Don’t Show – When is it okay to break the rule and tell the audience something instead of showing?
• Tension – What is tension and how do I build it in storytelling?
• World Building – Beyond setting, what elements do you need to build a believable, memorable, and sustainable world?
• Rewind-Play-Repeat – What is our affinity to repetition and how can we utilize this in storytelling?
• Plotting Coincidence – How do you create something that is supposed to be spontaneous, like a coincidence that feels natural?

*Each student receives a copy of the book as part of their registration fee.

The Craft Course

In this 6 part series, Jaimie will discuss the basic essentials to the craft of storytelling. Purchase the series or on individual session from the topics below:

• Development – Learn how to structure, research, and draft your story
• Setting – A study of setting beyond location
• Character – A full evaluation of how to create round characters
• Story – A deep look into the different ways to tell a story
• Voice – The elements of voice in story and how they differ within the work
• Image – An insightful presentation on how to write images not abstracts

Techniques of Writing Course

In this 8 part series, Jaimie will discuss the writing process from idea to execution and completion of your book, script, or non-fiction work. Purchase the series or book on individual topics from the list below:

• Basic Writing – A basic introduction of writing techniques for storytelling in fiction/non-fiction
• Pre-Writing – Ideas and outline options in fiction/non-fiction
• Revise & Edit – Revision and editing best practices in fiction/non-fiction
• Capture & Craft Voice – Crafting your voice and capturing ideas in fiction/non-fiction
• Genre & Audience – Writing to the genre and audience of your piece in fiction/non-fiction
• Expression Part 1 – A look into the first 4 classic storytelling techniques in fiction/non-fiction
• Expression Part 2 – Completion of the final 4 classic storytelling techniques in fiction/non-fiction
• Organization – Tips and tricks to organize yourself as a writer for maximum output

Fill out the form below to request a booking or more information:

PRIOR EVENT PRESENTATIONS

• 2025 Story Rocket Live “Pitching to Producers Without Living in Hollywood – Zoom
• 2025 Ancient City Writers Group “Writing in Deep POV” – Florida
• 2025 Masterclass “Break into Hollywood From Anywhere” Story Rocket – Zoom
• 2025 Keynote “Screenwriting” Film Florida – Zoom
• 2025 Palm Beach Youth Film Showcase “Screenwriting Judge” – Florida
• 2025 Orlando Reads Book Fest “Guest & Speaker” – Florida
• 2025 FWA River City Group “Adapt Your Book to Film” – Florida
• 2025 Ancient City Writers Group “LinkedIn for Networking” – Florida
• 2025 Hillsborough County Library System “Summer Programming” at 19 libraries – Florida
• 2025 Jacono Studios Filmmaker Workshop “Screenwriting Session” – Florida
• 2025 “Chatting with ChatpGPT for Writers” Nova Southeastern University – Florida
• 2025 Writers Day Workshop “Write Like a Screenwriter as a Novelist” – Florida
• 2025 Sarasota Teacher’s Council Convention – Florida
• 2025 Future of Education Technology Conference – Florida
• 2024 – Ancient City Writers Group Speaker – Florida
• 2024 “How to Network on Linkedin” Nova Southeastern University – Florida
• 2024 Present Your Story Pompano Beach Library System – Florida
• 2024 Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy School Visit – Florida
• 2024 Storyrocket Live “Ask Me Anything” & Presentation – Virtual
• 2024 Florida Literacy Association Speaker & Keynote Luncheon – Florida
• 2023 Writers Day Workshops, multiple locations – Virtual
• 2023 Florida Star Fiction Writers Group Speaker – Florida
• 2023 Florida Writers Association Conference Speaker – Florida
• 2023 Romance Writers Association Conference Speaker Invite – California
• 2023 Speaker Space Coast Writers Guild Book to Film – Florida
• 2023 Speaker Graphic Novel Writing Class Brevard County Library – Florida
• 2023 Guest Authors for Authors Conference – Florida
• 2023 Guest UCF Knight of Networking – Florida
• 2023 Guest & Panelist Atlanta Comic Con – Georgia
• 2023 Guest SyFy Bartow Marketplace – Florida
• 2022 Guest Teen Comic Book Club Brevard County Library – Florida
• 2022 Panelist at Story Summit Conference – Virtual
• 2022 Guest at Come Write In Brevard County Library – Florida
• 2022 Guest & Panelist Brevard Library Con – Florida
• 2022 Speaker “Adapting your Book for Film & Television” Florida Writers Conference – Florida
• 2022 Guest & Panelist PalmCon – Florida
• 2022 Guest & Panelist Daytona Beach Comic Con – Florida
• 2022 Guest UltraCon – Florida
• 2022 Guest & Panelist Tampa Bay Comic Con – Florida
• 2022 Guest Kingdom of Comics – Florida
• 2022 Guest Read More Comics – Florida
• 2022 “Capturing & Crafting Voice” Hillsborough County Library – Florida
• 2022 “Outlining & Editing” Hillsborough County Library – Florida
• 2022 “Adapting Book to Film” Writing, Publish Sell Conf – Florida
• 2022 Guest Interview Comic Book Rundown – Podcast
• 2022 “Writing Comics” Hillsborough County Library – Florida
• 2022 Guest Rama Drama Convention – Florida
• 2022 Guest Interview No Direction – Podcast
• 2022 Guest Interview Outside the Panels – Podcast
• 2022 Panelist Read It, Write It Book Event – Florida
• 2022 “Writing for Teens” Broward County Library – Florida
• 2022 Panelist Trinity Prep – Virtual
• 2022 Hollywood Mastermind Guest Speaker – Virtual
• 2021 International Christian Visual Media Conference – Florida
• 2021 Melbourne Film Club Keynote – Florida
• 2021 Teen “Poetry Writing” Hillsborough County Library – Virtual
• 2021 Write, Publish, Sell Speaker- Florida
• 2021 Space Coast Library Program Live Online – Florida
• 2021 Space Coast South Florida Authors of Romance Speaker – Florida
• 2021 Space Coast Writers Guild “Books vs. Scripts” – Florida
• 2021 Tell Your Story: It’s Your Write Speaker – Florida
• 2021 Just Us Nerds Podcast Guest – Florida
• 2021 FLA Convention Speaker – Florida
• 2021 Trinity Prep School Author Fest Guest – Florida
• 2021 Authors for Authors – Florida
• 2021 World of Reading Day Keynote via Jr. League – Florida
• 2020 Teen Programming Hillsborough County Library multiple presentations – Virtual
• 2020 South Florida Romance Writer’s Group “Setting the Setting” – Virtual
• 2019 Florida Association for Media in Education “Character through Cosplay” – Florida
• 2019 Learning Assembly through UCF “I Dare you to Quit” – Florida
• 2019 SCBWI Long Island “Hit #1 on Amazon & How-To Ads” – Virtual
• 2019 Space Coast Writers Guild “Get Into Barnes & Noble” – Florida
• 2019 SCBWI Long Island “A-Z of Publishing Your Book” – Virtual
• 2019 State Small Business Expo “Branding Your Business Niche” – Florida
• 2019 NEA Big Read “What is Cosplay?” – Florida
• 2018 Authors for Authors Conference “Finding Your Agent” – Florida
• 2018 Florida Christian Writer’s Conference “Writing for the World” – Florida
• 2018 Barnes & Noble book signing “Literacy and Writing” – Florida
• 2017 Suntree Rotary Club “Finding Your Story” – Florida
• 2017 Orlando Book Fair “Panelist & Book Signing” – Florida
• 2017 Sarasota Writer’s Group “Your Book is a Business” – Florida
• 2017 State Small Business Event “Writing for Kids” – Florida
• 2017 SCWG “Marketing Your Book” – Florida
• 2017 Authors for Authors “Marketing Your Book” – Florida
• 2017 Write’s Atelier “Landing a Literary Agent” – Florida
• 2017 Suntree Public Library “Writing Workshop for Youth Program” – Florida
• 2016 Mandel Public Library “Writing YA” – Florida
• 2016 Downtown Orlando Public Library “Writing YA” – Florida
• 2016 Florida Council of English Teachers “Keynote Speaker” – Florida
• 2016 Authors in the Park “Keynote Speaker” – Florida
• 2016 Florida Writers Association “Writing for Children” –Florida
• 2016 Authors for Authors “Excellence in Publishing” –Florida
• 2016 Panelist Other Words –Florida
• 2015-2016 Suntree Public Library “Youth Writing Workshops” – Florida
• 2015 NESCBWI Conference, “Your Book as a Business” – Massachusetts
• 2015 Keynote Speaker Holocaust Museum, “A Mother’s Journey Through Bullying” – Florida
• 2014 SCBWI Conference, “Your Book as a Business” – Florida
• 2014 SCWG Conference, “Writing For Children is a Business” – Florida
• 2013 Keynote Speaker 500 Teacher’s Symposium, “The Business of Publishing” – Florida
• 2012-2017 Instructor Eastern Florida State College “Writing Sessions” – Florida