CHARLOTTE WRITERS CLUB FEBRUARY MEETING - NOW HYBRID!

  • February 15, 2022
  • 6:30 PM
  • Tyvola Senior Center, 2225 Tyvola Road, Charlotte

Registration


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We will be live and in-person for February's meeting!

We will gather at the Tyvola Senior Center, 2225 Tyvola Road, Charlotte.


Not able to attend in-person? Please join us via Zoom with this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83291815127?pwd=Qi9iVy8wMFB4TjlFYzFEL3FOMWYxZz09


As always, the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. to socialize and reconnect with fellow writers. Our formal meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. as our president calls us to order with a welcome and brief announcements. Club business and member announcements will follow the presentation by our guest speaker for the evening: Betsy Thorpe, a veteran of the book business, who will discuss that final essential step toward publication - editing.


Taking That Final Step toward Publication

You’re a writer. You’ve worked hard and for a very long time to get your project ready for publication. But do you in fact have a professional-looking work that will draw the attention of an agent or, if you opt for self-publishing, generate the kind of reviews that will sell books in the numbers you’ve imagined? Beyond writing, it is vitally important that would-be authors understand the publishing industry, and the fine points agents and publishers expect to see before they commit to putting time and money into your book. Betsy Thorpe will explain what different kinds of editors do: proofreaders, copy-editors, sensitivity editors, developmental editors. She’ll lay out in more detail the ways a developmental editor can help with observations on the amount and flow of information you’ve included, your style, use of words, even the number of chapter divisions. She’ll explain how a developmental editor can help you develop your characters more fully, refine the hero’s journey, enliven your dialogue, use setting effectively, maintain the pace of your story—and more.

About Betsy Thorpe

Betsy Thorpe, a veteran of twenty years in the book business, has seen it all from behind the editor’s desk. She worked briefly after college as a “Rover” at Condé Nast and worked on projects at all their magazines, left to follow her heart into the book world as an editorial assistant at Atheneum Books where she worked with Lee Goerner. Moving up, she worked as an assistant editor at Harper Collins where Janet Goldstein schooled her in what it takes to be a great editor, and she later followed her mentor to Broadway Books, an imprint of Random House. In time, she went on to become health and parenting editor at John Wiley & Sons. Since leaving New York she has worked as a freelancer, co-writing books, editing for individuals, and working for corporate clients.

Betsy lives in Charlotte with two daughters and a giant rescue dog named Charlie. She helped to found the Charlotte chapter of the Women’s National Book Association and fundraises for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, hoping they will find a cure for the millions like her daughter who suffer from Type 1 Diabetes.

COVID

To attend, we ask that you provide proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID and its variants and, while in the building, wear a face covering over your mouth and nose.


If you have not already done so, please copy or take a photo of your vaccination card and email it to membershipcwc@yahoo.com. You’ll have to do it only once and you'll be on our VIP List. As you arrive for the meetings, we will check you off the list. We will also accept showing vaccination cards at the door as a last-minute emergency—though not our preference because we don’t want to have to turn anyone away as we follow city & county mandates.


If you have questions please contact membershipcwc@yahoo.com.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!


Charlotte Writers Club  is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, P.O. Box 220954, Charlotte, NC 28222-0954

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