Are you sitting on an idea or half-finished manuscript?

Have you resolved to finish your book or writing project in 2011?

Then this BackList teleseminar is for you.

Felicia Pride, author and  founder + chief content officer of BackList, will be joined by Sofia Quintero, author, CREATE Co-op member, and literary coach, to discuss the hows and whys behind unfinished work.

Sofia has published five novels and over a dozen novellas and short stories with practically every major house in the industry. In addition to finishing new projects, she helps writers find their voices and tell their stories.

This teleseminar will:

1. Discuss the role of realistic goals.
2. Share personal experiences and challenges with finishing writing projects.
3. Explore blocks that stop you from finishing.
4. Provide advice about what you can do NOW to get on the path toward completion.

You'll also learn more about Sofia's upcoming Seshat Writing Intensive that will take place on February 19, 2011 in New York. This intensive will give you that extra push to finish your work. During the teleseminar, you'll learn how you can receive an exclusive discount to attend the writing intensive and work on realizing your dreams.

Sofia Quintero is a novelist, screenwriter and producer whose work crosses genres and garners acclaim. Her latest novel Efrain’s Secret (Knopf, 2010) earned raves from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist and Kirkus, was a winner of the Parents’ Choice Award and is a nominee for the Young Adult Library Services
Association’s 2010 Best Fiction for Young Adults. Quintero’s screenplays have won the San Francisco Black Film Festival and Montage Entertainment Diversity in Screenwriting Award as well as semi-finaled for the ABC New Talent Development Program and the Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab. She is a member of the inaugural class of the TV Writers Studio at Long Island University where she is pursuing her MFA in Writing and Producing Television and studies under Norman Steinberg (The Cosby Show, Blazing Saddles, My Favorite Year) and Bernie Orenstein (Kate and Allie, Sanford and Son, That Girl, What’s Happening.) Quintero and her work have been profiled in Latina, Upscale, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times and Catalina. Quintero is also the creator the HomeGirl.TV network and web series which she will launch in March 2012. Read her complete bio.

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