Discover your hook and Keep 'Em Up All Night

Dates: April 17-27, 2005
Instructor: Tammy Johnson

Course description:

What makes your story different and unique? What makes it stand out from all the other manuscripts out there? This workshop will help you find your story hook, that little something that keeps the reader turning the pages, as well as refining that hook into a query letter that catches an editors attention and gets your book requested.

Join us in Keep 'Em Up All Night, where we will discuss everything from making your story's first few words work to your maximum advantage, to ending hooks that keep the reader turning the pages, never able to find quite the right place to close the book and call it a night. Not only that, but we will also look at writing a compelling query letter that will catch an editor's attention and snag you a request.

About the Instructor:

If she'd known all those childhood fishing trips with her family were actually preparing her for a writing career, she would have paid more attention. Say bait or hook to Tammy Johnson now, and squirming worms and stink bait are not the first things to pop into her mind. Now she's thinking of catching an editor that finds something special in her
work, and then, readers, who can't wait to read more of the stories she creates.

Tammy Johnson is actively pursuing a writing career targeting the Home and Hearth lines of Harlequin and Silhouette. She has been a finalist in several RWA chapter sponsored contests and is an active member of her online RWA chapter, From the Heart Romance Writers.

To learn more about Tammy and her writing, please visit her home on the net at www.tammyjohnson.net.