PISSING OFF EDITORS, OR HOW NOT TO GET PUBLISHED (mini workshop) **

So many workshops deal with what writers must do to get published. So few detail the mistakes that can be deadly. Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair donned her reporter’s fedora and interviewed over two dozen acquisition editors, agents and pros in the publishing industry in order to learn what strikes fear in an editor’s heart…and what guarantees a manuscript won’t make it out of the slush pile.   A fun, lively mini-workshop, Sinclair guides students through the perils of crafting a draft and submitting a manuscript and helps them turn a critical eye to their own work. Lest they risk pissing off their next editor.

Winner of the prestigious national book award, the RITA®, science fiction romance author Linnea Sinclair is a name synonymous with high-action, emotionally intense, character-driven novels. Her books have claimed spots in the Locus Top Ten and received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly. Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine consistently gives Sinclair’s books 4-1/2 stars (their highest rating). Starlog magazine calls Sinclair “one of the reigning queens of science fiction romance.”   Her previous careers include news reporting and private investigation. Since 2000, she’s taught seminars in the craft of writing for all levels of writers via on-line writing sites and at writing conventions nationwide. Sinclair resides in Naples, Florida with her husband, Robert Bernadino, and their thoroughly spoiled cats. Readers can find her perched on the third barstool from the left in her Intergalactic Bar and Grille at www.linneasinclair.com .