Short Story and Novella Secrets

Dates: December 3 - 14, 2007
Instructor: Sherry Morris, Editor, The Wild Rose Press
Cost: FREE to FTHRW members; $15.00 for all others
Registration Deadline: November 28, 2007

Course Description:

Tired of the form rejections to your query letters? Wish you had some writing credentials to signal New York editors and agents you are a competent writer? Are neighbors and family members rolling their eyes at you when they ask for the umpteenth time "Aren't you published yet?"

Shh...there is a way to earn publishing credentials so the editors and agents will start requesting your manuscripts. Just write a memorable short story or novella and sell it to an eBook publisher.

Learn the inside scoop on ePublishers. You can take that hopelessly stuck work-in-progress and shape it into an exciting short story. Don't have one? No fear. Learn techniques for conjuring great plots. You'll be guided through your sagging middles and learn what to leave out and always include. By the end of the three week course, students will have completed at least the first draft of a short story and know which markets to submit it to. This is an excellent method for gaining publication credit while waiting for your novel to be discovered.

About the Instructor:

As an at-home-mom with too much time alone while the kids are at school, Sherry Morris has been writing since the turn of the century. She sold the first short fiction she ever wrote. The second story sold literally overnight. A dozen short stories, novellas and novels later, she's sold every tale she's ever written. Sherry is a member of the Virginia Romance Writers and an experienced romance editor and workshop presenter. She writes mainstream romance under her own name and the steamy stuff as Sammie Jo Moresca.

Visit her at http://www.members.cox.net/romancer and http://housewifeink.wordpress.com/