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SUMMARY:How to Get a Publishing House to Take You Seriously with Joe Ide
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP HERE\n\n\n\n\nWith hosts: Jeniffer Thompson and Anastasia Hipkins \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe’s course is not your ordinary talk about tips\, tricks\, and secrets. Designed for aspiring writers who are serious about becoming a novelist\, the class chronicles what Joe has learned on his rise from failed career after failed career to successful\, critically acclaimed author. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles\, where his favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. He went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers — including Hollywood screenwriter — before writing his debut novel IQ. Inspired by his early experiences and his love of Sherlock Holmes\, IQ went on to win the Anthony\, Macavity\, and Shamus awards. Snoop Dogg has signed on to executive produce a forthcoming TV series based on the IQ series. Joe’s newest novel The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel\, will be released by Little\, Brown and Company on February 1\, 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective\, Philip Marlowe\, gets a dramatic and colorful reinvention at the hands of award-winning novelist Joe Ide. The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler’s detective\, Philip Marlowe\, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses\, ruthless gang members\, virulent inequality\, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he’s a quiet\, lonely\, and remarkably capable and confident private detective\, though he lives beneath the shadow of his father\, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective\, famous throughout the city\, who’s given in to drink after the death of Marlowe’s mother.” \n\n\n\n\nTopics this course will cover: \n\n\n\n\n• Discuss storytelling: the ingredients that make one story compelling and another fall flat.\n• Learn Joe’s methods for creating dynamic characters and dialogue that’s sharp\, smart\, and entertaining.\n• Introduction to his approach to building action scenes\, as well as the basics of rewriting.\n• Publishing field: the gatekeepers\, who they are\, and what they expect.\n• What publishers are looking for and what they’ll reject out of hand.\n• Discussion of money: advances\, royalties\, movie\, and TV options.\n• He’ll answer practical questions like I’m about to write a 300-page novel; how do I start?\nPrologue or no prologue?\nI’m stuck. What do I do now?\nHow do I write twists and turns? What am I looking for when I’m rewriting?\nHow do I develop my “voice”?
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SUMMARY:Laurie R King in Conversation with Meg Gardiner - Thriller / Mystery
DESCRIPTION:Join masters of their crafts\, Laurie R. King and Meg Gardiner in conversation on How To Write a Thriller \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a do-not-miss discussion with the last 15 minutes for Q and A. \nRSVP HERE\nAbout Laurie R. King: \nLaurie R. King’s crime novels are both serial and stand-alone. First in the hearts of most readers comes Mary Russell\, who met the retired Sherlock Holmes in 1915 and became his apprentice\, then his partner. Beginning with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice\, Russell and Holmes move through the Teens and Twenties in amiable discord\, challenging each other to ever greater feats of detection. \nIn the Russell & Holmes stories\, King explores ideas—the roots of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan; feminism and early Christianity; patriotism and individual responsibility—while also having a rousing good time.  Various stories revisit The Hound of the Baskervilles and Kipling’s Kim\, set a pair of Bedouin nomads down in a grand country house in England\, and offer an insider’s view of the great quake and fire of 1906\, all the while forging an unlikely relationship between two remarkably similar individuals who happen to be separated by age\, sex\, and background. \nKing’s Stuyvesant & Grey series\, also historical\, follows American ex-Bureau of Investigation agent Harris Stuyvesant\, damaged young Captain Bennett Grey\, and Grey’s sister Sarah as they move through Europe between the Wars. \nFive King novels concern San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli\, Kate’s SFPD partner Al Hawkin\, and her life partner Lee Cooper. In the course of the stories\, Kate has encountered a female Rembrandt\, a modern-day Holy Fool\, two difficult teenagers\, and a manifestation of the goddess Kali. \nKing’s stand-alone suspense novels include A Darker Place\, the story of a middle-aged professor of religion who investigates “cults” for the FBI\, and encounters a movement that embraces the dangerous beliefs of alchemy.  Folly tells of woodworker Rae Newborne\, who comes to a deserted island to rebuild a house\, and her life. Keeping Watchis the story of Rae’s friend Allen Carmichael\, a Vietnam vet who draws on his combat experiences to rescue abused women and children—until he comes across a boy whose problems may rival his own. Califia’s Daughters (a paperback original by “Leigh Richards”) is a post-apocalyptic sort of tale set in a near future where women rule and men are fragile. \nShe has collaborated on nonfiction works including Crime & Thriller Writing and The Grand Game\, and on several short story anthologies.\n\n\n\nAbout Meg Gardiner: \nEdgar-winning novelist Meg Gardiner writes thrillers. Fast-paced and full of twists\, her books have been called “Hitchcockian” (USA Today) and “nailbiting and moving” (Guardian). They have been bestsellers in the U.S. and internationally and have been translated into more than 20 languages. \nThe Dark Corners of the Night\, her current title\, is the third novel in the UNSUB series\, featuring FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix. Stephen King says\, “Don’t miss it. This is a great one.” Booklist says\, “This suspenseful thriller is exquisitely constructed… Gardiner is on a roll.” It has been bought by Amazon Studios for development as a television series. The first novel in the series\, UNSUB\, won the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller. \nThe Evan Delaney novels feature a feisty journalist from Santa Barbara\, California. Stephen King calls them “simply put\, the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years.” \nChina Lake won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. Later it was a finalist for NPR’s 100 Best Thrillers Ever. \nThe Jo Beckett series features a San Francisco forensic psychiatrist. It includes The Liar’s Lullaby\, The Memory Collector\, and The Dirty Secrets Club\, which was chosen one of the Top Ten thrillers of 2008 by Amazon and won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel of the year. \nThe Nightmare Thief\, featuring both Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney\, won the 2012 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense audiobook of the year. \nMeg’s stand-alone novel The Shadow Tracer was named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2013. Phantom Instinct was chosen one of “The Best Books of Summer” by O\, the Oprah magazine. \nIn addition to her fifteen novels\, Meg has published short stories in American and British magazines and the anthologies Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and  Deadly Anniversaries. She’s contributed essays to Now\, Write! Mysteries\, The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook\, and the Anthony Award-winning Books to Die For. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe is the 2020 president of Mystery Writers of America.
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SUMMARY:The Art of Motion and Reveal in Poetry and Short Story with Carlos De Los Rios
DESCRIPTION:Want your words to have more impact?  \nThis class will explore the various techniques that can be employed to make your writing more engrossing\, more powerful\, and more relevant. By looking at the work of master poets and short story writers we will explore how you can make your words resonate. \nCarlos de los Rios is a 20 year veteran of the movie business. He is a writer and producer of 10 feature films including studio movies for Academy Award-winners Lauren Bacall and Harvey Fierstein\, Academy Award-nominee Elliot Gould\, Emmy-Award winners C. Thomas Howell and Johnny Galecki as well as Golden Globe-nominee Hayden Panettiere and movie stars like Danny Glover and Josh Hutcherson.
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