Links to items of interest
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I met Louella Nelson at the San Diego State University Writers' Conference in January 2012. She is an awesome teacher. I took her workshop on scene setting and it was fantastic. It really helped me with some issues I was having with my novel. Check her out at:
http://www.louellanelson.com
Bill Manville was one of my most helpful teachers, and he was also a pleasure to work with.
His weekly online course, "Writing to Get Published" is now open for enrollment.
For more info and/or a free copy of the Writing to Get Published Student Handbook, email him:
[email protected]
Here again is the article that ran in the local newspaper before I took his class in Groveland, CA:
Writing to Get Published
"What do New York agents, magazine editors and book publishers look for in new writers? Former Village Voice columnist; an editor for Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmo; author of six books published by major New York houses--one a Book-of-the-Month--and now a columnist for the New York Daily News, Bill Manville will once again conduct a free Writing to Get Published course at the Groveland Public Library for six Saturdays, starting April 11, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Here is what Michael Korda, Editor in Chief, Simon & Schuster, says about Bill: “...the work I know best is your novel Goodbye, which I edited. What first attracted me was the dazzling prose; I was equally impressed by plot and characterization. A considerable literary accomplishment but also a Book of the Month choice, bringing an impressive price at paperback auction. What may also interest your students, I’ve heard you in discussion with writers like Joe Heller, Patricia Bosworth, Lois Gould and Gay Talese, and remember thinking more than once, Bill ought to be teaching it, too."
I met Louella Nelson at the San Diego State University Writers' Conference in January 2012. She is an awesome teacher. I took her workshop on scene setting and it was fantastic. It really helped me with some issues I was having with my novel. Check her out at:
http://www.louellanelson.com
Bill Manville was one of my most helpful teachers, and he was also a pleasure to work with.
His weekly online course, "Writing to Get Published" is now open for enrollment.
For more info and/or a free copy of the Writing to Get Published Student Handbook, email him:
[email protected]
Here again is the article that ran in the local newspaper before I took his class in Groveland, CA:
Writing to Get Published
"What do New York agents, magazine editors and book publishers look for in new writers? Former Village Voice columnist; an editor for Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmo; author of six books published by major New York houses--one a Book-of-the-Month--and now a columnist for the New York Daily News, Bill Manville will once again conduct a free Writing to Get Published course at the Groveland Public Library for six Saturdays, starting April 11, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Here is what Michael Korda, Editor in Chief, Simon & Schuster, says about Bill: “...the work I know best is your novel Goodbye, which I edited. What first attracted me was the dazzling prose; I was equally impressed by plot and characterization. A considerable literary accomplishment but also a Book of the Month choice, bringing an impressive price at paperback auction. What may also interest your students, I’ve heard you in discussion with writers like Joe Heller, Patricia Bosworth, Lois Gould and Gay Talese, and remember thinking more than once, Bill ought to be teaching it, too."