Learn how to write The Great American Novel from veteran novelist JAMES MAGNUSON. Topics include how to:

- Use Autobiographical Material
- Handle Rewrites
- Complete Your Manuscript
- Keep Your Vision
- Find the Spine of Your Novel
- Avoid Common Pitfalls

JAMES MAGNUSON has written seven novels for major publishers, including Windfall and Ghost Dancing. He has worked as a TV story editor and screenwriter. He is Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He was playwright in resident at Princeton University.

HOW TO WRITE HISTORICAL FICTION
Listening to ROBERTA GELLIS is a privilege. Her no-nonsense approach to writing historical fiction will answer questions you didn't know you had, and keep you on track with your own manuscript. Topics include how to:

- Carry Out Useful Research
- Pick a Key Event
- Pin Down a Historical Period
- Create Believable Characters
- Discover How Historical People Lived and Felt

ROBERTA GELLIS is respected and successful. Since 1964, she has published dozens of meticulously-researched historical novels, including the famed Roselynde Chronicles. She received Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.