Romancing Nonfiction: How to Pay the Bills While Your Fiction Career is Taking Off
Dates: October 3-16, 2010
Instructor: Barb Webb
Cost: FREE to FTHRW
members; $15.00 for all others
Registration Deadline: September 29, 2010
Course Description:
Looking for some extra cash while you write the next romance novel? Every writer has a great idea or a pocket of knowledge that can translate into lucrative non-fiction opportunities.
Make your editor beg. Get from first base to "I do" by courting publishers with a seductive non-fiction query and proposal. Barb will show you how in this hands-on workshop!
Topics include: Uncovering your ideas, identifying non-fiction markets and preferred publishers, building the ideal query letter, designing a proposal to elicit the coveted "yes!", article development, what to do while you are waiting for an answer, and how to avoid potential pitfalls.
About the Instructor:
Barb Webb has written over 200 curriculum manuals along with numerous fiction and non-fiction published works including how-to guides, novellas, anthologies, articles, and poems. She has been featured in magazines such as Redbook, MSN Money, Woman's Day, True Romance, and American Profile. Her recent non-fiction work includes The Mom's Guide to Earning and Saving Thousands on the Internet (McGraw Hill, ISBN 0071457763)
Barb's prime motivation is the desire to help other women succeed. Whether financially, emotionally, or via a realm of fantasy, she strives to be a voice of empowerment.
Barb is also the owner of MOMdotCOM.net, Past-President/ Advisor of the From The Heart Romance Writers RWA Chapter 177, Expert Advisor to Moms Making Millions, and a ClubMom Expert. This savvy mom and multi-talented writer currently resides in Kentucky with her husband and three children.
How to register:
Fee: FTHRW Members: FREE; FTHRW Non-Members:
$15.00
Click here to register
before September 29, 2010.
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