title: Take Your Novel to the Next Level: Advanced Techniques for the Fiction Writer
author: Marjorie Sue Reynolds
description: Marjorie Reynolds is an award-winning author, conference speaker, writing instructor and former movie-advertising executive. She taught advanced popular fiction in the University of Washington Outreach Program in Seattle. William Morrow & Co. published her novels, THE STARLITE DRIVE-IN and THE CIVIL WARS OF JONAH MORAN in hardcover, and Berkley released them in paperback. HarperCollins published STARLITE in a new paperback in 2011 and 2016. Her book on the writing craft, titled TAKE YOUR NOVEL TO THE NEXT LEVEL: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR THE FICTION WRITER, will be published in 2017. The American Library Association chose THE STARLITE DRIVE-IN as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year for Young Adults. It also received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and was optioned for film. It was a Literary Guild alternate selection and a Readers Digest Select Editions book. Rights were sold to seven countries. Ms. Reynoldss novels have received praise in The New York Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist as well as in numerous other newspapers and publications. The New York Times Book Review said, Fusing Callie Annes coming-of-age with a tragic love story, Marjorie Reynolds tidily explores the gap between fantasy and reality in her surely first novel (THE STARLITE DRIVE-IN). Publishers Weekly called Ms. Reynolds a sure-handed storyteller" and said in describing THE CIVIL WARS OF JONAH MORAN "her prose really soars when she describes the timberlanda tent in the woods, the bottom of an overgrown lake, a drive over remote roads during a stormcapturing the almost magical spiritual connection between people and the land. Ms. Reynolds has been a speaker and workshop presenter for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, the Oregon Writers Colony, Willamette (OR) Writers, the South Carolina Writers Workshop, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Trade Show, Northwest Bookfest in Seattle, The Los Angeles Book Fair, The South Carolina Book Festival, the Edmonds (WA) Write on the Sound Conference, Seattle Writers Association and Seattle Free Lances. She has spoken at various other literary arts events, and on radio programs in Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, OR and Bloomington, IN have interviewed her. She has also been featured in newspapers throughout the country.
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