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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

How to Write a Bestseller, with New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, Sat, Nov 30, Guelph

"How to Write a Bestseller"
With book editor Brian Henry & New York Times #1 bestselling author Kelley Armstrong 
Saturday, November 30, 2013
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Avenue, Guelph, Ontario
(Map here.) 

This workshop will give you the inside scoop on what gives a novel best-selling potential. You’ll learn how to get readers emotionally involved in your story, how to raise tension, control your pacing and keep your readers turning the pages. But you won't just hear about some of the best secrets of the trade; you'll learn how to apply them to give your own writing a sharp new edge.

Workshop leader 
Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing teacher for more than 25 years. He has helped many of his students get published, including guest speaker Kelley Armstrong...Kelley Armstrong lives in Aylmer, south of London, Ontario, with her husband and three children. She used to program computers and attend Brian Henry workshops. Now she writes international bestsellers. Kelley has hit the New York Time’s bestseller list with both her supernatural thrillers for adults and her urban fantasy for teens.


Laura Vandervoort and Greyston Holt 
play Elena and Clayton on the set of Bitten

Kelley's principal publishers are Random House Canada, Dutton and HarperCollins in the U.S. and Doubleday in Britain. To date, she's published more than two dozen books, most recently Thirteen, a supernatural thriller for adults, The Rising for teens, and Loki’s Wolves for Middle Grade readers. 

Bitten, A TV series based on Kelley’s Woman of the Otherworld series is currently filming and will be broadcast in 2014. 
Check out Kelley's website here.

Fee: $38.94 + 13% hst = $44 paid in advance by mail or Interac
or $42.48 + 13% hst = 
$48 if you wait to pay at the door

To reserve a spot now, email 
brianhenry@sympatico.ca

See Brian’s full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Kingston, Peterborough, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Georgetown, Milton, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Dundas, Kitchener, Guelph, London, Woodstock, Orangeville, Newmarket, Barrie, Orillia, Bracebridge, Sudbury, Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.


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