From the Horse’s Mouth: Strategies
for Getting Published
Saturday,
November 29
1 – 4 p.m.
Victoria Building, Room 106
Ryerson University, 285 Victoria Street, Toronto (Map here.)
From the
Horse’s Mouth is a round table discussion with three members of the publishing
community, moderated by writing instructor and editor Brian Henry. Following the presenters'
introductory remarks, discussion will be opened up to the floor to address the
concerns and questions of those aspiring writers present, both of fiction and
nonfiction, interested in improving their chances of getting published.
Our panel:
Rachel Letofsky is a literary agent with the Cooke Agency, which represents literary and commercial fiction (including science fiction, fantasy and crime), narrative-driven nonfiction, including popular culture, science, history, natural history, politics, personal reference and children’s books.
Rachel is actively growing her own of clients. She is particularly drawn to new authors. In fiction she is looking for everything from literary fiction, to voice-oriented young adult and new adult fiction. In nonfiction, Rachel is looking for narrative-driven memoirs and anything with a high level of quirkiness.
Stephen Myers is the Marketing and Publicity Manager for
Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Canada’s boutique literary fiction imprint. Hamish
publishes some of Canada’s best known writers, including Joseph Boyden, Zsuzsi
Gartner, Bill Gaston, Damian Tarnopolsky, and Jeffrey Moore.
Stephen Myers also handles promotions for hockey
books and a selection of distribution clients, including W.W. Norton. Outside
of title management, he oversees the department's internship program.
Anne Shone, Senior Editor at Scholastic Canada, will be
the third member of our panel. She has worked in book publishing for close to
twenty years, concentrating on children’s books for the last fifteen. In that
time, she has edited and acquired picture books and novels for young people and
a myriad of nonfiction titles, and has worked with many of Canada’s top children’s
book authors and illustrators.
Fee: 110.21
How to Write a Bestseller
With book editor Brian Henry & New York Times #1 bestselling
author Kelley Armstrong
Saturday, December 6
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
London Central Library, Stevenson & Hunt Room
A, 251 Dundas Street,London (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. But his proudest boast is that he’s 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. 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 Sea
of Shadows a fantasy novel for teens, Loki’s Wolves a fantasy novel for Middle Grade readers, Visions, a
contemporary gothic novel for adults, and Otherworld Nights, a collection of short supernatural stories
for adults.
Bitten, A TV series based on Kelley’s first 13
novels, started broadcasting in January 2014.
Fee: 40.71+ 13% hst = 46 paid
in advance by mail or Interac
or 43.36 + 13% hst = 49 if you wait to pay at the door
Coming in the
new year:
Secrets of
Writing a Page-turner, Saturday, Jan 17, in Toronto. Details here.
How to write
great dialogue, Saturday, Jan 24, in Georgetown. Details here.
Writing and
Revising, Saturday,
Jan 31, in Oakville. Details here.
Plus, six weekly courses for everyone from beginners to advanced writers. Details here.
See Brian’s
full schedule here, including writing
workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie, Brampton, Bolton, Burlington,
Caledon, Cambridge, Collingwood, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston,
London, Midland, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara on the Lake, Orillia, Oakville,
Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Stouffville, Sudbury, Toronto, Halton,
Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
