Tips & Tricks for Writing Your Novel or Memoir - With Christine DeSmet

An in person event and online. Streaming on YouTube. Register for email reminders.

November is National Novel Writing Month. Learn about tips and tricks for success in writing and selling a novel or memoir led by a longtime writing instructor and successful author, Christine DeSmet. Learn how writers turn ideas into instant plots and write a “Novel-in-a-Month.” Christine presents key things to do (or not do) in the areas of characterizations, plot, setting, dialogue, and how to cull clutter in your prose that can doom a project. You’ll be updated on the ever-changing publishing environment and what it takes to market your work. Christine offers free advice afterward to attendees who want to send her their single-spaced, one-page query letter and synopsis or marketing blurb.

Following the discussion, there will be the opportunity to purchase the author's books. 

• First-Degree Fudge, $7 cash, check
• Hot-Fudge Frame-Up, $7 cash, check
• Five-Alarm Fudge, $7 cash, check
• Deadly Fudge Divas, $7 cash, check
• Undercover Fudge, $7 cash, check
• Holly Jolly Fudge Folly, $7 cash, check
• When Rudolph Was Kidnapped (Novella 1), $5 cash, check
• Misbehavin’ in Moonstone (Novella 2), $5 cash, check
• Mrs. Claus and the Moonstone Murder (Novella 3), $5 cash, check
• When the Dead People Brought A Dish-to-Pass (Novella 4), $5 cash, check
• A Moonstone Wedding (Novella 5), $5 cash, check
• The Moonstone Fire (Novella 6), $5 cash, check

About the Author

Christine DeSmet is the author of the Fudge Shop Mystery Series and the Mischief in Moonstone light romantic-mystery novellas, both series set in Wisconsin. She was a longtime writing instructor and writing event coordinator at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her memberships include Wisconsin Writers Association, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Blackbird Writers, Writers Guild of America, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Her free monthly newsletter focuses this fall on how to write a novel. www.ChristineDeSmet.com and visit her on Facebook and Substack.

The program is made possible through funding from the Friends of the Oregon Library.