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Backspace featured in October 2009 Writer's Digest Magazine!  Read the online interview with co-founders Christopher Graham and Karen Dionne.

 

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CONNECTICUT STORY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 

Led by Richard Krevolin
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
(10am – 5pm) Woodbridge, Ct.
Backspace subscribers receive a $20 discount!
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Thanks to everyone who helped make the 2010 Backspace Writers Conference and Agent-Author Seminar such an outstanding success!

 

editors panelRegistration is OPEN for the Backspace Agent-Author Seminar November 11 & 12, 2010

 

Early registration discounts until Sept. 15th

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Panel discussions with over 25 literary agents and small-group query letter and opening pages workshop critiques. Attendance limited to 150.



 

BUZZ YOUR BOOK Online Class

With International Bestselling Author M.J. ROSE

Course length: Six weeks

Limited to 25 people.

Course begins January 10th, 2011

Instructor: M.J. Rose

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How to Make a Disastrous Booksigning Event a Success by J.A. Konrath

No aspect of a writer’s job offers more opportunity for euphoria (and anxiety) than a booksigning. But how do these events really go down?

The Fantasy. Your escort picks us up at the airport and drives you to the largest bookstore in the state. She tells you they’ve advertised the event in the three local papers and on the radio. When you arrive, there are a hundred fans already waiting. You meet the excited staff and sit behind a table stocked with a huge pile of books, under a giant color poster of your cover. You read a chapter aloud, receive thunderous applause, and then do a quick Q & A before signing for a solid 90 minutes, people waiting patiently in an endless line to tell you how much they love you.

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Done Yet? Struggling with the Novel By John Dalton

In May of 1994 I returned to St. Louis, after a six-year absence, and tried to rent an apartment. The search took me to South City, to neighborhoods I’d barely explored during my childhood and adolescence in St. Louis County, to lane after lane of stately, affordable, near-identical two-family flats -and to a prospective landlord who studied my credit application with a degree of weariness and skepticism. I’d left the line for employer blank.

It was the first time that I’d had to explain, in any official capacity, that I was a writer. Attaching myself to the occupation sounded preposterous. Nevertheless, I told him that I was writing a book, a fiction book, a novel, and that I was being funded for a year by a writing award from James Michener.

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Writing Well is Hard Work by Rebbie Macintyre

 

Writing is hard any time, under any conditions. Not as hard as handling a jackhammer in 110 degree city heat, mind you. And not as hard as chasing toddlers around the house after working all day. And not as hard as dealing with a boss who's dumber than a bag of hammers.

But it's still pretty hard.

You know what in the English language is the dirtiest four-letter word? Hope.
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