Workshop Featuring Christie Craig and Faye Hughes

(pictured: Christie Craig's Suitcase o' Rejection, click for larger version)


Whenever I hear that Christie Craig and Faye Hughes are giving a workshop, I always go out of my way to attend. These ladies provide concrete examples (and great handouts!) on how to improve one's writing career. Last year at RT, I learned some great tips on how to find an agent and this year the duo shared how to tackle the first chapter.

And as always, with Christie and Faye, comes Christie's suitcase o' rejection, filled with many, many (many, many) rejection letters this now-successful and multipublished author received along her own rocky path to publication. "A rejection is like somebody telling you your baby is ugly," she say. But, Craig also points out, if enough people tell you your baby is ugly, then maybe "your baby needs a nose job." The author adds, "if you want it, you just don't give up."

A suitcase full of examples to live by!

Elissa