This workshop will give you the inside scoop on what gives a novel best-selling
potential. You’ll learn how to get readers emotionally involved in your story, how to
raise tension, control your pacing and keep your readers turning the pages. But you
won't just hear about some of the best secrets of the trade; you'll learn how to apply
them to give your own writing a sharp new edge.

Workshop leader Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing teacher for
more than 25 years. He has helped many of his students get published, including guest speaker Kelley Armstrong...

Kelley Armstrong lives in Aylmer, south of London, Ontario, with her husband and
three children. She used to program computers and attend Brian Henry workshops.
Now she writes international bestsellers. Kelley has hit the New York Time’s bestseller list with both her supernatural thrillers for adults and her urban fantasy for teens.

Kelley's principal publishers are Random House Canada, Bantam and HarperCollins in the U.S., and Little, Brown in Britain. To date, she's published more than two dozen books,  most recently Spellbound, a supernatural thriller for adults, and The Gathering, for teens. She's also writing a series of illustrated novellas with Subterranean Press.