Romancing Non-Fiction: Put Passion into your Proposal

Dates: March 5-18, 2006
Instructor: Barb Webb

Course Description:

Every writer has an idea, do you know how to sell yours?

Make your editor beg. Get from first base to "I do" by courting publishers with a seductive non-fiction query and proposal.

Barb will show you how in this two week, hands-on workshop!

Topics include: Uncovering your ideas, identifying markets and preferred publishers, building the ideal query letter, designing a proposal to elicit the coveted "yes!", what to do while you are waiting for an answer, and how to avoid potential pitfalls.

About the Instructor:

From the age of four, Barb Webb could be found with a book in her hand. As a young writer, she had numerous poems published and won several Creative Arts awards.

With a background in computer technology, education, marketing, and promotional communications, this prolific author has written over 200 curriculum manuals for the corporate sector and has published several novellas, numerous short stories, poems, and articles.

She’s also the owner of MOMdotCOM.net, an editor at Chippewa Publishing Ltd, and a regular columnist for Suite Magazine.

In recognition of her writing and work with the community, Barb is the recipient of the Professional Association of Computer Training (PACT) First Place Award of Excellence, the 1999 Minnesota Children and Family Services Volunteer of the Year Award, and the 2005 Scarlet Boa.

As a true Gemini, she has dual writing personalities: Barb authors non-fiction under Barb Webb www.BarbWebb.com and Romance as Anne Leland www.AnneLeland.com. She currently resides in Georgia with her husband and three children..