Put your novel to the test?
Can your writing go the distance?

We’re Looking for a few good writers who have the stamina and imagination to reach the level of published authors.

Get down and dirty with your writing:

Your opening page (velocity vs. set up)
Build up and strengthen the sagging middle
Your character’s de!ning moment
Refining point of view
One-two combination for charged dialogue
How to knock your darlings out of the ring
How story wins ever round
Trim your novel to fighting weight through self editing skills
Learn how to avoid fatal story errors
Learn how to think like a pro
Mysteries of writer-editor relationship revealed
Why temper tantrums always backfire
How many revisions are enough?
Why you MAY NOT BE as POLISHED as you think
How to raise the quality of your writing to championship level

…and much more.

In your corner are two top professional editors and writing instructors with years of getting authors published — Shelly Lowenkopf and Toni Lopopolo. Learn from two of the best and shape up your novel.

DATES: May 3, 4, 5
PLACE: Santa Barbara, CA

Friday: 5:30 to 8:30 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

Limited to ten writers

Two dynamic instructors: Toni Lopopolo is a former Executive Editor at Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press turned literary agent, who believes in cultivating new writers, assisting them in their growth and goals to become published authors; and, Shelly Lowenkopf, who has overseen 700 books to publication, who is a former Masters of Writing instructor at USC, and who boasts a thirty year career as an Executive Editor.