Name: L. C. (Elsie) Hayden
Location: El Paso, TX
Travel: To any state
Fees: Negotiable
Possible topics:
How to Add Suspense to Your Writing: the various techniques used to create suspense and hold the readers at the edge of their seats.
Creating Characters with Character: covers the basics such viewpoint, techniques to avoid and use when creating memorable, three-dimensional characters.
All About Publishing: I cover the pros and cons of self-publishing, publishing by small, independent publishers, and the New York publishers.
Thinking Outside the Box: Unusual and creative ways to promote your books.
Dynamic Dialogue: Techniques used to liven your dialogue and make it seem real.
Making Your Writing Sparkle: Various techniques that will improve your writing.
Active and Passive Voice: Teaches writers to improve their writing by avoiding the use of passive voice.
Great Beginnings: shows the writers ways to begin their fiction and nonfiction works so that it will grab the readers interest.
Steps to Building a Novel: takes the writers step-by-step on how to construct their stories.
Genre Characteristics: focuses on the requirements of each of the genres.
Creating the Perfect Plot: different strategies are analyzed that will strengthen the author’s writing.
Writing the Winning Query Letter: a look at the wrong and right things to say when writing an editor or agent.
Using scenes to Build the Story: a view on how scenes fit together to create a perfectly structured story.
Know Your Setting: a look at how setting can help create a better story.
About Those Story Techniques: different writing techniques will be discussed and the participants will see how these will help their writing.
Eight Deadly Nonfiction Sins: learn to avoid the eight most common mistakes novice writers make.
How a Book Becomes a Book: step by step look at the book writing process. Presentation begins by looking at a blank sheet of paper and finishes with a published book.
From the Author's Mouths: advice published authors give to beginning and established authors.
In case you have an audience who is not necessarily interested in the writing techniques but consists of avid readers who love authors, I have two different presentations for them:
Author’s Life: A humorous view at some of the amazing things that happens to authors.
The Writing Process: focuses on how authors go about creating their stories. This is also mostly a humorous presentation.
Contact: L. C. Hayden
Biography:
Hayden is a popular speaker who is often in demand. She has presented workshops and spoken at major writers' conferences. She is the creator of the popular Harry Bronson mysteries or question series. Her latest mystery, Why Casey Had to Die was an Agatha Award Finalist for Best Mystery.