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		Video: Author Nora Roberts discussing how to write trilogies. Note: This video requires Macromedia's Flash Player, Version 9.
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:: Eric Simonoff on Park Avenue, literary agent Eric Simonoff walks by bookshelves lined with his award-winning clients books. Notably, Edward P. Jones is among them.				Entertainment Attorney Peter Dekom discussed the digital revolution and Book-to-Film projects.
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Order WordSmitten's Writing Workbook featured in our Write and Publish Workshops:WordSmitten's Query Letter Workbook. This is the same workbook provided in our workshops, a guide with three easy steps to writing a professional one-page query letter that agents will read.
:: Writing Workshops View photos from previous writing seminars: photo gallery. Save the Date :: June 1-8, 2008 Connie May Fowler's Below Sea Level Full Immersion Writing Workshops Register for this fun event. Kate Sullivan will be conducting a writing session at this June 2008 event in St. Augustine, Florida. Register to attend the Below Sea Level Writing Workshop, hosted by Oprah-pick author Connie May Fowler. For more information on Wordsmitten's Writing Workshop Series or on Connie May Fowler's workshops, click here.
:: WSM OnAir :: Radio Broadcast :: Podcast tune in to AM Talk Radio while you are in the Tampa Bay area to hear "those questions" and conversations with publishing executives. While you sip your literary latte, listen to author and poet Dr. Peter Meinke, Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, Margo Hammond, founder of the Festival of Books, and Tom Valeo, editor and author of the existential memoir.
:: Fiction Competitions Sponsored by WordSmitten Media, Inc., our two annual fiction competitions are great writing exercises, fun events for short story writers, and often a launching platform for debut authors. WordSmitten discovers great writing and great writers. To sign up, click (below) on either the TenTen Fiction Competition (annual deadline is July 1) or the Storycove Flash Fiction Competition (annual deadline is May 1). A recent award-winning short story, written by Maria Headley, received our TenTen Fiction Award, then was incorporated into her best-selling book, The Year of Yes, that broadcasting anchor Katie Couric selected (while she was on NBC's Today show) as her favorite book of the year. WordSmitten is always delighted to discover great writers.