Why trust me?
I’ve been working with writers to create their best stories since 2009. I’ve worked for agents on their slush piles, and I’ve taught writing at different levels for Writer’s Digest and Gotham Writers. I coached for Author Accelerator, and, I’ve just joined the faculty of Drexel University in their Low Res MFA in Creative Writing.
In addition, I have written four novels and am now writing the fifth, which is coming out in 2021.
Also? I’m a straight-talking sweetheart! So just email me and we can chat about your book.
Now that I have your attention, watch out for THE LAST BATHNG BEAUTY coming soon! I can’t wait for you to read it!
I need your help to write my first book please help me.
I have wanted to write a book for a long time. I don’t know how to start. Any insight for me?
What I’d suggest is first figure out what you want to write about, then make a timeline or character list depending on the type of story your going to write. For me I started my story in the 1996 era. I made a list of things from each year to present and made the story being told in the past tense form from the main character’s POV.
Hello Amy:
I found your name as I was perusing the Gotham Writers faculty. I have taken numerous Gotham courses and published several books as a vinsequrnce. Perhaps my inquiry is presumptuous, but soon I’ll be looking for a new editor for my magical realism novel and I liked very much what I had read about your background.
What I am looking for at the moment is an Advance Review of my historical novel, “The Corset Maker,” which will be released by Amsterdam Publishers in 2022. This is a novel inspired by my mother, also mother of the celebrated international architect, Daniel Libeskind.
Here is a very brief overview:
“In 1930s Poland, a rebellious teenage Rifka struggles to become free of the strictures of her Orthodox Jewish upbringing. Against all odds, she manages to open her own corsetry shop on Warsaw’s elegant Main Street.
But the conflicts of 20th century Europe soon propel Rifka on a dramatic life-long journey that takes her first to a settlement in Palestine, then to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War, refugee camps and Resistance missions in Nazi-occupied France, and finally to the post-war glamour of the Parisian couture world.
This rich and sweeping novel of friendship, love, and betrayal was inspired by the author’s mother and three of her friends, all women of immense courage and integrity. Rifka’s personal struggles and dilemmas go to the heart of the major ethical issues and challenges of our times.”
Should your schedule allow and should you be willing to read a PDF (galleys won’t be available for quite some time) of this novel, I’d feel most honored if you could review it.
Kindly let me know. More about me and my books on my website: annetteberkovits.com
Best,
Annette
Amy: apologies for he autocorrect errors in my previous message. The word was supposed to be: consequence