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Charlotte Writers’ Club Presents

an Intensive Eight-Hour Workshop "Writing the Breakout Novel"  

with New York Agent/Author, Donald Maass

Registration Form (Click Here)

February 21, 2009 – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  
Central Campus – Central Piedmont Community College – Charlotte, NC 
Professional Development Bldg., 3^rd Floor, Rm. PD304 

Limited to 50 Participants 

Requirement: Must bring completed novel or novel-in-progress. 

Total Fee:  Charlotte Writers’ Club Members: $65.00; Non-members: $75.00 – lunch included 

Deposit of $25 required and applied to total fee.  Balance due December 1, 2008 

*CWC Members have until Sept. 1, 2008 to register before it is open to the public 

**Refunds for emergency only – two weeks before workshop 

Questions? Contact: jmccloud1@carolina.rr.com

 Send deposit or total fee to:        

Jerri McCloud   (Checks payable to: Charlotte Writers’ Club)
217 Regency Drive 
Charlotte, NC 28211 

Workshop Description: 

"Writing the Breakout Novel": An intensive, hands-on writing workshop that introduces powerful techniques for taking your fiction to the next level.  Participants must bring the manuscript of a completed novel, or novel-in-progress.  Based on the book “Writing the Breakout Novel” by New York literary agent Donald Maass.

Some of the topics covered:

Donald Maass is president of the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, which he founded in 1980.  He represents more than 100 fiction writers and sells more than 100 novels per year to top publishers in America and overseas. He is himself the author of fourteen pseudonymous novels and of the books The Career Novelist (Heineman, 1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (Writers Digest Press, 2001) and Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (Writers Digest Press, 2004). He is a past president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc. (AAR).

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