The Portable Writers' Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884956238 ISBN 13: 9781884956232

Publisher: Quill Driver Books, 1997

Synopsis

It's 8:24 a.m. on a rainy Ohio Saturday. Jamie Fergurson, attorney and mother of two, shakes the water from her umbrella, crosses the carpeted foyer to the eight-foot banquet table serving as a registration desk and joins the tens of thousands of writers and would-be writers who attend one of more than 400 writers' conferences held in the United States each year. Jamie will learn not only something of the craft of writing but alsoof such things as first serial rights, self-publishing, literary agents, query letters and royalties: the elements that constitute the business side of writing. These conferences, depending on venue, number of workshops, who the workshop leaders are and various other factors, traditionally cost anywhere form $65 to $3000. Now, however, Ms. Ferguerson can take advantage of one of the most comprehensive writers' conferences ever produced 47 workshops presented by a host of distinguished agents, authors and editors for less than $20. And this conference doesn't require travel time or expense; the workshops may be taken in any order she wants and she may repeat them again, in their entirety, whenever desired. That's because this writers' conference is a conference in a book: The Portable Writers' Conference: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Published, edited by Stephen Blake Mettee. The workshops are about evenly split between craft and business, fiction and nonfiction. Warner-Aspect Books' Editor-In-Chief Betsy Mitchell explains how to sell yourself in a query letter without offending the pro-spective editor. Literary agent Natasha Kern reveals how to find the right agent for you. Self-help book author Eric Maisel offers a twelve-step program for non-Ph.D's who want to write a self-help book. Suzanne Forster, recipient of Romantic Times Magazines's Career Achievement Award in Sensuality, tells how to write love scenes that sizzle. Novelist Marilyn Meredith shows how to turn your genealogy into fictional stories

Edition details

• Publisher: Quill Driver Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884956238
• ISBN 13: 9781884956232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444
• Editor: Mettee Stephen Blake