Sinc Into Great Writing

October 13, 2010 ♦ Wednesday 1:30 - 9:00pm ♦ Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Featuring – Elizabeth Lyon 

and special guest – Ayelet Waldman

Cost: $50 for SinC members (click here to register), $150 for nonmembers (click here to register).

Sisters in Crime is holding their annual SinC Into Great Writing 2010! one day prior to Bouchercon By the Bay in San Francisco. The workshop will be held at the Hyatt Regency where the conference will take place. You do not need to be registered for the conference to attend this one day workshop. Sisters in Crime has discounted this workshop for its members. The cost for the entire day including dinner is $50.00. The charge for non-members is $150.00 so join Sisters in Crime and save money!

Spots fill up fast and we can only seat 120. Register now!

SinC Into Great Writing 2010! is sponsored by Sisters in Crime. Sisters in Crime will not be able to issue refunds. To make reservations for Bouchercon By The Bay please go to http://www.bcon2010.com/welcome.php.  You will be able to receive the conference rate for your hotel room if you need to come in a day early. All arrangements need to be made with the Hyatt Regency. 

Dinner and coffee break included in $50/$150 registration fee. Check in will begin at 12:30pm in front of the workshop room. An e-mail will be sent to you with the room name at a later date. Special dietary requests will be honored. Please e-mail Beth with your request at sistersincrime@juno.com.

Featuring: Elizabeth Lyon

Triple-header pre-Bouchercon workshops with teacher and freelance editor Elizabeth Lyon, author of MANUSCRIPT MAKEOVER, A WRITER’S GUIDE TO FICTION, AND THE SELL-YOUR-NOVEL TOOL KIT.

Elizabeth Lyon is the best-selling author of six books on writing fiction, nonfiction, revision, and marketing: Manuscript Makeover, A Writer's Guide to Fiction, The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit, Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write, The Writer's Guide to Nonfiction, and National Directory of Editors & Writers. Elizabeth Lyon lives in Springfield, Oregon. The December issue of "The Writer" magazine selected Manuscript Makeover as one of "10 Great Writing Books in 2008"and "perhaps the most comprehensive book on revising fiction." Lyon has worked as a freelance book editor since 1988. Her editing clients have published over 60 books--nonfiction and novels. Her website is www.elizabethlyon.com.

Special Guest:  Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman, NYT bestselling author, will be joining us as our dinner speaker. So not only will we get a day's worth of work on our manuscripts with editor Elizabeth Lyon, but we will get to hear Ms. Waldman speak about her writing and career.

Ayelet Waldman is the author of Red Hook Road (released July 13, 2010), The New York Times bestseller Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper and the Mommy-Track Mysteries. Her personal essays have been published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, ELLE Magazine, Vogue, Allure, Cookie, Child, Parenting, Real Simple, Health and Salon.com. Her radio commentaries have appeared on "All Things Considered" and "The California Report."

Ayelet's missives also appear on Facebook and Twitter. Her books are published throughout the world, in countries as disparate as England and Thailand, the Netherlands and China, Russia and Israel, Korea and Italy.  The film version of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits — with Don Roos as screenwriter and director and Natalie Portman in the lead role — premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2009 and will soon be in a theater near you (or somewhat far from you, but then it'll show up on IFC and you can watch it there).

Click here for the workshop schedule.