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WRITERS
ONLINE
Questions, answers, and everything in-between.
These eight to twelve week online tutorials that help you create and maintain your own writer's promotional website are now available internationally. For the next course dates and to register interest visit the site now.
OFFLINE WORKSHOPS
The High Concept
Presented at the Waikato/Bay of Plenty/King Country Chapter of RWNZ (2010)
An interactive workshop on finding and honing the selling story inside your novel.
Critiquing a Manuscript: Making it Sing
Presented at the 16th Romance Writers of New Zealand National Conference (August 2009)
Critiquing: Top Twenty Questions
Presented at the Waikato/Bay of Plenty/King Country Chapter of RWNZ (2009)
Characterization
Presented at the Waikato /Bay of Plenty/ King Country Chapter of RWNZ (2008)
Plotting
Presented at the Waikato /Bay of Plenty/ King Country Chapter of RWNZ (2008)
Writing with a Global Voice
Presented at the 15th Romance Writers of New Zealand National Conference (August 2008)
Why do some manuscripts seem to hit the slush pile and sink, while others don’t even touch the editor’s desk before being snapped up? One key is in the book’s marketability through international appeal.
The aim of this workshop is to give practical ways to make your manuscript and query more enticing to the publishing industry by addressing the “internationalizing” of voice, story elements, and theme. Illustrating from her own experience Gracie gives you the tools she has found to be helpful, and shows you how to use those tools so you can begin your own journey.
If you'd like Gracie to present a workshop to your group,
please contact her through the About Page on this site.