with author, editor, and literary agent Betsy Lerner
Thursday | May 15 | 5.30 - 8.30 pm
A presentation of the Willoughby Writers Group.
Space is limited. Please call to register. No walk-ins.
203.488.8702
Description
How do you hook a reader from the first page? In this workshop, we are going to scrutinize our first pages together and drill down on what makes them succeed and/or how to improve them. By looking at our own first pages as well as some first pages of books we love, we'll analyze the different kinds of gambits writers take in introducing their work. We will also scrutinize voice, tone, authority, point of view. Participants will also have a chance to "test drive" their working titles with the group.
For more info, contact Rabia Ali | 203.488.8702 | rali@wwml.org
Betsy Lerner is the author of the recently released novel, Shred Sisters (Grove Press, October 2024). She is also the author TheBridge Ladies, The Forest for the Trees and Food and Loathing. With Temple Grandin, she is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry where she was selected as one of PEN’s Emerging Writers. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors. After working as an editor for 15 years, she became an agent and is currently a partner with Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency.
