Ainsley MacQueen's Keep

Workshops 

*BLURB BOILING 101—BY AINSLEY MACQUEEN

She can’t sell your book for you, or grant you more talent, but she can take the fear out of writing the most marketable in-your-face blurb for your works in progress.

Does your blurb lack luster, power, BREVITY?

Do you equate writing a blurb with planning your funeral?

Are you convinced polishing 90,000 words is easier than polishing the golden 25?

Come on.  Writing a great blurb is easier than giving up. It takes only 30 minutes to dip your blurb in gold, roll it into a previously prepared query, and send it to work while you polish those other 89,975.

Whether you have no blurb or a monster of a blurb to tame, you will learn:

What aspect of your story can make readers instantly “relate”,

What concept makes it instantly marketable,

How to turn a hundred words to twenty five,

How to look at your story objectively,

And do it all while dinner is in the oven.

**Ainsley MacQueen is an award winning writer of Scottish historical romance, screenplays, and stage plays.  She offers motivational speaking and instruction on the writing of blurbs. 

*PITCHING YOUR WIPS TO THE VIPS...is a variant of the Blurb Workshop that focuses on the pitchable blurb. 

See her writing motivation blog at http://www.writersblockbuster.blogspot.com