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

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.