Writing Your First Novel

	Workshop Description
	Date: November 4 - 7, 2004. Begins Thursday at 6:00 P.M. with dinner; ends Sunday with lunch. Designed For: Writers working on a first novel Maximum Capacity: 12 Participants Workshop Requirement: Writers accepted for the workshop will be asked to submit a brief outline and ten pages (maximum) of a novel in progress to be reviewed by the faculty and other participants. Come prepared to work hard!
	Hard at work on the great American kids’ novel? Editors love to discover new writers, but they’re looking for manuscripts that shout “budding professional,” not “rank beginner.” This hands-on writing workshop can help your novel make the grade! Join us for a series of lectures, critiques, and writing exercises designed to develop and polish your writing and marketing skills. Areas of focus include: Point of View; Plot; Show, don't tell; Conflict; Creating believable characters; and What editors want. Workshop Requirement: Writers accepted for the workshop will be asked to submit a brief outline and ten pages (maximum) of a novel in progress to be reviewed by the faculty and other participants. Come prepared to work hard!

	Workshop Faculty
Sandy Asher		Sandy Asher Variety and quality characterize Sandy Asher's work, which includes twenty-one books, three anthologies, more than three dozen plays, and over two hundred articles, stories, and poems published in magazines. Her most recent picture book, Too Many Frogs!, will be released in spring 2005. She's also the editor of three collections of fiction, including With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish, winner of the 1999 National Jewish Book Award in children's literature, and On Her Way: Stories and Poems About Growing Up Girl, a Junior Library Guild selection. She is currently at work on an anthology for boys, to be released in 2006. Her best-known play, A Woman Called Truth, has been produced by more than 250 school, community, and professional groups in the United States and Canada. Sandy has been honored with the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a distinguished body of work in theater for young audiences.
		Guest Faculty: Wendy Schmalz Wendy Schmalz is the principal and founder of the Wendy Schmalz Agency. She has over twenty-five years of experience representing a wide range of writers for both the children's and adult markets. Her current client list includes Sandy Asher, Seymour Simon, and Ed Koch, to name a few. Wendy began her career at Curtis Brown and then moved on to Harold Ober Associates, where she worked for twenty-three years and was a principal of the company. She founded her own agency in 2002.
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