Jason Myers mentioned in the comments last Friday that he was hoping to get Donald Maass to Dallas, Texas, to teach a workshop.
Donald Maass dropped by this morning to let us know that he is, in fact, scheduled to do a “Fire in Fiction” Workshop in Dallas next July 9-11. He’ll be offering a special add-on workshop on going “beyond genre” with romance fiction. What does “beyond genre” romance mean? Time-travel love? Murderous love affairs? Love among unicorns? Doing things you shouldn’t atop ponies in the Wild West? You’ll have to show up to find out!
Maass also mentioned Writer’s Digest will be bringing out a compilation of his books (he says with new and updated stuff) in a ring binder format under the title “The Professional Novelists Handbook” sometime next year. They’re pushing the envelope with the ring binder—and in today’s publishing climate pushing the envelope is probably the only way to go. I’ll be interested in seeing how it does.