• How to save time and be objective during revisions by using the Bobbie Christmas Find and Refine Method™
• How to make your manuscript more marketable, whether self-publishing or submitting to agents or publishers
• The secret of style versus style, the two ways the term is applied and how to make both ways work in your favor
• The difference between Chicago style and academic style, the style of writing you probably learned in school
• What to delete to make your writing stylish and persuasive

• Where to start and how to plan your memoir
• What publishers look for in a memoir
• Why you don't have to be famous to sell your memoirs
• What type of publishers buy memoirs and how to find them
• How to write memoirs that people want to read
• How to write from the heart -- the most creative, simple way to write
• What is vital to a memoir and what is not
• What to delete to make your memoirs more powerful

Selected List of Previous Speaking Engagements

Subject:
YES, YOU CAN MAKE A LIVING WITH WORDS!

Do you dream of writing or editing for a living? You can do it! Bobbie Christmas has made her living with words for four decades, and she gives you tips, ideas and inside secrets about how you can follow your passion.

Find out

• The benefits of making a living with words
• How to get started
• How to build a portfolio
• How to get freelance work
• The inside secret about magazines that will give you tips about what to send and when to send it
• Markets you probably haven't considered
• Style guides, which ones you need, where to find them, and how they help you get repeat business
• Ghostwriting: is it for you?
• Potholes to avoid while on your road to success

Learn the basis of Write In Style, Bobbie's award- winning textbook on creative writing. Discover how to make your writing stand head and shoulders above the rest, so it wins the attention of agents and editors. Write in style, and you are much more likely to achieve the success you deserve.

To register for these and other classes, go to www.WriteWellU.com.

BEST NEWS: Whether or not you actually call in for the event, AuthorSmart and Write Well University will send you all the handouts and an MP3 recording of the event, so sign up, and you'll get all the information, even if you forget to listen in.

Three seminars for writers and self-publishers are being offered in conjunction with the Spring Book Show in downtown Atlanta. All seminars are being held in Hall B classrooms at the Georgia World Congress Center on March 28-29.

• Seminar 1: "Writing, Editing, Publishing and Marketing Your Book" - two days, emphasis on marketing. Eighteen presenters, including Ed Nawotka, southern correspondent, Publishers Weekly and Bloomberg, book columnist; Ahmad Meradji, CEO, Apex Book Manufacturing (digital book manufacturer); Chris Staros, award-winning graphic novels publisher; and John Shableski, Diamond Book Distributors.
• Seminar 2: "How To Prepare Your Book for the Market: Writing a Killer Proposal and Editing the Manuscript for Maximum Marketability" - one day of intensive instruction by Patricia Fry, executive director, Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network, and author of twent-seven books; and award-winning book doctor Bobbie Christmas.
• Seminar 3: "Earning a Comfortable Living through Freelance Writing and Self-Publishing" - one day of intensive instruction by Peter Bowerman, author of the best-selling "Well-Fed Writer" and "Well-Fed Self- Publisher" books, and Angela Durden, children's book author and business consultant.

For more information click here: anvilpub.net/spring_seminars.htm

For complete information and to register go to http://www.southeasternwriters.com/

• Southeastern Writers Conference Faculty
• Brian Jay Corrigan Novel Writing
• Bobbie Christmas, Book Doctor from Zebra Communications, will share with us the Fundamentals of Writing, including editing and marketability
• Cappy Hall Rearick will give us her southern spin on humor--tornado warning!
• Charlotte Babb, Webmaster, will share some ins and outs of blogging for writers.
• Dennis "Doc" Hensley returns to teach inspirational writing.
• Dorothy Fletcher joins us for nonfiction
• Emily Carmain explains how to avoid 10 common writing mistakes--and they are not grammar!
• Marjory Wentworth, SC Poet Laureate, will teach poetry.
• Harry Rubin will teach the art and science of the limerick.