About The Class:

Work One-on-One with a Bestselling Author to get your manuscript in shape!

Agents and editors plow through hundreds of manuscripts every week. You've got only a few pages to impress them -- really, only a few paragraphs -- before they toss your manuscript on the return-to-sender pile with a nasty red REJECT stamp on the first page.

What keeps them reading past the first paragraph? Do you know? Your FIRST PAGES must hook the reader, evoke reader identification and convince the reader to suspend disbelief. Miss any one of those three or commit one of several common errors in POV, and you've got no chance at all.

BAM Advanced Fiction Techniques: First Pages gives you specific, concrete techniques for accomplishing each of those essential three goals. In this class, we're going tolook at your first pages of your novel or nonfiction book. In six weeks, I'll review your first pages three times, making sure you've got the best shot possible at convincing jaded editors and agents that they've simply got to read more of your manuscript. The course includes the ebook BAM: Advanced Fiction Techniques, which acts as a primer for the class.

For the last twelve years, I've made my living writing under a variety of names. I've written for most of the major publishers in New York, been on the USA Today bestseller list, have written more than thirty novels, and have sold a number of nonfiction manuscripts. I'm also the acquisitions editor for a few small press imprints.

I know how it all works and what will get you out of the slush pile and onto the acquisitions track.

This class will be available by email and also via Podcast.

About Cyn Mobley

USA Today bestselling author Cyn Mobley has been published by Berkley, St. Martins Press, Avon, Lyons and Alpha Press. Her books are frequently optioned for film. A former lawyer and black belt in karate, Mobley now runs Greyhound Books and Bushido Press. She lives in the South with her Greyhounds and Airedales.

HOW THE WRITERSWEEKLY UNIVERSITY CLASSES WORK:

When you sign up, your email receipt will contain the date when your class begins.

On the Friday before the class begins, you will get an orientation email with more information.

A new lecture and assignment is sent to all students every Monday during the run of the class. Students participate at their leisure, anytime that week, via email. We know how busy everybody is, which is why we don't make everybody come to a certain webpage at a certain time on that day.

All students correspond directly with the instructor during the course of the class. But, you can always email wwu-support - at - writersweekly.com if you're having any difficulties.

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