Have you gotten rejection after rejection on manuscripts that your beta readers love but editors quibble over. You know the kind of rejection: “Love your writing style but the story just isn’t right for us.” 

As nice as the compliment was, what you really want is a contract, right? So what the heck was missing or wrong to make the story not “right” for the publisher? 

This is the workshop where we dig into what’s being published to find the elements that slipped from our grasp before and make note them for inclusion in current or future projects. 

The one thing students will be required to have are one or two books in the same genre that they really love. Books written by other authors, that is. These can be two by the same author or they can be by different authors. Why do we need them? Because they are going to serve as the treasure map, the mine to be plundered. From the elements gathered from these stories a personal format for use in our own books will be built. 

Some of the things we’ll look at are: characters, settings, professions, technology, detail, backstory, tension level, comedy level, rise and fall of action, heat level of love scenes, dialogue/language, and anything else that appears pertinent based on what style and what genre each student is working within. 

June 1, 2010 through June 28, 2010

This workshop will be conducted via a Yahoo! email loop.  Email invitations will be sent 48 hours prior to the beginning of the workshop.

Just register for the workshop and complete the payment process via PayPal.  The cost is $15.00 for FFnP members and $25.00 for non-FFnP members.  Payment is due at time of registration.

Beth Daniels currently writes as Beth Henderson and J.B. Dane, though she answered to Lisa Dane and Beth Cruise in the past as well. She has worked with editors at Berkley, Zebra, Leisure, Harlequin/Silhouette, and Simon and Schuster's Aladdin Paperbacks, done e-books for a now defunct company (not her fault, she says), and began her writing life with hardcover books slated for library use with a publisher that got out of the romance business (again, not her fault). More recently she’s had a number of articles about writing picked up by e-zines, saw a short story published in a mystery and suspense magazine that turned up its toes the next year (really, really not her fault), and has a story in the MOTHER GOOSE IS DEAD anthology slated for publication by Dragon Moon Press sometimes in 2010.

For over a dozen years Beth taught college level composition, both in the classroom and online, and a credit course on Novel Writing. Five of her former Novel class students are now published.

Twenty-six of Beth’s manuscripts have appeared in print or e-book format. These have been historical romantic adventures (6), romantic comedies (10), romantic-suspense (3), and young adult romantic comedy (7). Her titles have appeared in 12 different languages in over 20 countries. At the moment she is working on various manuscripts and attempting a collaboration with another RWA member on a contemporary/fantasy/romantic adventure. She also ventured into self-publishing to keep her out-of-print backlist in print, but previous e-books in print, and in frustration, to move beyond a manuscript she’d been reworking for editors for a decade with no bites, released a previously unpublished historical romantic adventure set in the American West.

She is currently/or has been a member of/or about to renew membership in Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Novelist Inc., and Historical Novelist Society.

He lost the woman he loved once. Now he's determined to win her back. No matter what it takes."  MR FAR FROM PERFECT by Beth Henderson has been described as "Outstanding! The characters are witty without going over the top and the situations between the two are funny... A great read!" Coffee Time Romance