Writing the Selling Synopsis

Award-winning author Cheryl Bolen will talk on "Writing the Selling Synopsis" at the Sept. 16 meeting of the Bay Area chapter of Romance Writers of America.

Cheryl will discuss the do's and don'ts of encapsulating a novel into a couple of succinct pages, and she will show examples from her own published works.

After working for nearly two decades as a journalist and teaching English for six years in the Pearland school district, Bolen sold her first book, A Duke Deceived, to Harlequin Historical in 1997. That book earned her the title Notable New Author.

Eight more books and several other awards have followed, including receiving the Holt (Honoroing Outstanding Literary Talent) Medallion in 2006 for Best Historical Novel.

Bolen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas, where she majored in journalism and English. She also earned a master's degree from the University of Houston at Clear Lake.

She is a regular contributor to the Regency Plume, The Quizzing Glass and The Regency Reader, and many articles on Regency England can be found on her website.

Further information on Bolen, including an archive of her articles on writing, can be found at www.cherylbolen.com. 2008-08-29