Elaine Raco Chase
Writing the Novel
8 weeks: Saturdays, February 6 - April 10, 2010, 10 a.m. to 12 noon
$170 (Current MDC faculty and credit students: $120)

Course will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
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Welcome to the world of mass-market fiction!  Learn about the genre's, what publisher's want, how to find an agent and - how to write the novel. You'll create compelling strong characters, learn to plot, the importance of dialogue, scene staging, foreshadowing, flashbacks plus beginnings, middles and endings.  And how to research because most fiction is a blend of fantasy and facts.

Elaine Raco Chase has been a published author for 30 years - with all books still in print in the US and in 24 countries and 17 languages.  She has written 14 bestselling romance novels, 2 award winning mystery novels, edited a book of mystery short stories, and was nominated for the prestigious Agatha Christie Award for her best-selling how-to book: The Amateur Detective.  She has been a past president of many local romance writer's chapters, past national president of Sisters in Crime, and has taught creative writing at colleges and universities in the US and Canada.  

Date and Time
Saturdays
February 6 - March 27, 2010
10 a.m. to 12 noon

Fee
$170, pre-registration required
(Current MDC faculty staff and students: $120)

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.

Want to register? Click here for instructions and registration form.