Study the Secrets of an Unforgettable Narrative Voice in Breathtaking Santa Barbara
In this intensive six-day workshop, we will focus on discovering that crucial but ineffable element to great writing, a mesmerizing narrative voice. With acclaimed book doctor Susan Brown, PhD and sought-after international literary agent Andy Ross, we will learn how to apply the secrets of the literary masters and commercial best-selling authors to create an unforgettable narrators. To develop a voice that grabs a reader by the heart, we’ll work with Susan on developing techniques such as internal monologue, literary allusion, hyper dialogue, personality-driven exposition, multi-layered tone, symbolic imagery, dramatic irony, James Joyce’s Uncle Charles Principal, and paragraph architecture. With Andy, we’ll be learning about what book publishers and literary agents really want, about preparing your book for publication, and about writing effective query letters and book proposals.
Susan will show you how to create a great narrative voice and Andy will show you how to market it.
Looking for a Writing Coach and Personal Editor Who Works with unpublished as well as Prize-Winning Writers?
Are You an unpublished Fiction or Memoir Writer with either a Manuscript or a few tantalizing Notes for a Project?
Personal Editor and Writing Coach Susan Brown Can Help You Bring Your Project and Writing to the Next Level.
looking for to bring your writing and project to the next level?
Do you have either a manuscript or a few tantalizing notes for a book? Today’s smart writers have writing coaches to take them through the process rather than edit finished work. Could Unpublished Writer, you Have to Hire one
The days of an unpublished author submitting a work-in-progress to a publisher are long past. in-house editors are long past. Hemingway and Fitzgerald had Scribner’s Maxwell Perkins, William Faulkner and Ken Kesey became bestsellers under Viking’s editorial talent scout Malcom Cowley , and Raymond Carver was “created” under the heavy hand of his editor at Knopf. in the image of his editor, Gordon Lish. The days of Malcom Cowley and Maxwell Perkins are gone. Publishing houses no longer have in-house editors who develop and nurture new writers In this publishing environment, writers hire
Can You Use a One-on-one Writing Coach?
Susan Brown, Writing Coach, Extreme Editor & Book Doctor
Sought-after professional writing coach and private editor Susan Brown has guided dozens of literary projects (memoir and fiction) from concept to publication. She works with new and existing projects.
Susan will show you how to
create a great narrative voice and Andy will show you how to market it.