| I put this workshop together before I left San Francisco, and am SO bummed to miss it, but I will be there in spirit. It should be a really fantastic time and a great opportunity to kickstart your book and let the muse play... | ||
| Sunday, January 30, 10:30am - 1:30pm Books Inc. Opera Plaza - 601 Van Ness, SF - 415-776-1111 STARTING YOUR YA NOVEL with Nina LaCour & Kristen Tracy Did your New Year's resolutions include finally writing that book you've been dreaming of? In this class, we will explore a variety of ways to begin your YA novel. We'll break down the seven rules of hooking your reader immediately and making her need to turn the page. This is a hands-on class, so prepare to write and discuss. Our hope is that you will leave this session with a new perspective on beginnings, and take away a literal beginning for the story you want to tell. Between us, we have sold eleven novels to Simon & Schuster, Random House, Disney-Hyperion, and Penguin. We plan to share everything we know about the critical first pages in helping you write yours. Nina LaCour grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2006. She now teaches English at an independent high school. Nina’s first novel, Hold Still, was published by Dutton Children’s Books in 2009. Hold Still is a William C. Morris Honor book, a Junior Library Guild selection, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and a Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2009. Nina won the 2009 Northern California Book Award for Children’s Literature and was featured in Publishers Weekly as a Flying Starts Author. Kristen Tracy is an award-winning writer with an M.A. in American Literature, an M.F.A. in poetry writing, and a Ph.D. in English. She’s published several young adult novels with Simon & Schuster and Disney-Hyperion, and has published two middle-grade novels with Random House.. Recently selected as the poetry fellow for the Writers@Work Conference in Park City, her writing has been published in dozens of literary journals, including Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, Southern Review, New York Quarterly and elsewhere. | ||
WORDPLAY classes are fun, hands-on writing workshops led by experts and held at Books Inc. Opera Plaza. Classes are $60 per person, and they fill up fast.
For more info: booksinc.net/wordplay
To reserve your seat: wordplay@booksinc.net OR 415-776-1111
