Workshops

Please note: Attending a workshop does not indicate or imply that the instructor will represent any attendee as a literary agent. The instructor been a writing professor and a professional editor for more than thirty years; the purpose of attending a workshop is to access that expertise to benefit your writing.

In-Person

The Basics and the Bold: Fundamentals of Editing Your Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

Sundays at 3 p.m. EST, January 10-February 7, 2027

Pricing: $75/single one-hour session or $60/session for two or more sessions.

Note: Choose any or all of the small group master class sessions from the menu below, except that Session 1, The Basics and the Bold, is a prerequisite for all other sessions.

Each session is 60-minutes long and will be conducted via Zoom (link sent day of, after you’ve signed up communications with me via the “Contact me” button).

The Basics and the Bold Series

Class 1: The Basics and the Bold—A presentation of key editorial concepts and tools that can notably lift a manuscript toward publication. – This presentation is available on Sunday, January 10, 2027; 3 p.m.

Class 2: Easy Edits—Practice handling a few highly effective “basics” tools that are, once understood, easy and fun to use. –Sunday, January 17, 2027; 3 p.m. EST

Class 3: Bad Acting—Gain experience identifying “bad acting” (i.e. hokey behavior) from the characters in your work and write Oscar contending performances of their lives instead. –Sunday, January 24, 2027; 3 p.m. EST

Class 4: Unnecessary Repetitions of Action—Learn to spot and edit the “unnecessary repetitions of action” that deflate the dramatic tension in your narrative –Sunday, January 31, 2027; 3 p.m. EST

Class 5: The Drama—Conceive of your book as a palpable tension between two countervailing forces, and structure your manuscript to keep that necessary drama alive on the page. –Sunday, February 7, 2027; 3 p.m. EST

How to Write a Query Letter

(Check back for 2027 dates.)

Note: The following list is a menu, from which writers may choose any or all of the sessions. Writers may experience the sessions in any order and may take any of them more than once. However, Class 1: The Essential Ingredients of a Query is a prerequisite for all other sessions.