The California Writers Club of Long Beach Presents “Winning with Writing; Secrets of the Pros." This is a face-to-face workshop with professionals in the areas of Publishing, Editing, Book Cover Design, Manuscript Formatting, Story Pitching and Book Promotion.

The program will follow a Speed Dating format. We will have five specialists, one specialist to a table. The Specialists will spend 30 minutes at each table before moving on to the next table. At the end of the program, we'll have a 30-minute book signing/networking session.

The workshop will feature:

Elaine Ash has worked with writers of all genres, helping them to shape manuscripts, acquire agents and land publishing deals.

Laura Brennan’s background covers television to web, fiction to news. She has taught pitching workshops at several MFA programs.

April M. Reign is an author and cover designer who uses photo manipulation to capture the essence of a work for the book cover.

Wendy Thomas Russell founded Brown Paper Press, an indie publishing company in Long Beach. Previously she received awards as a reporter for the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Eric “Kata” Schuyler is a book production expert with Wambtac Communications who specializes in format and layout industry standards.

For map and other information see: https://calwriterslongbeach.org/events.html