Writing a novel can be a fun, if daunting proposition.  Woburn Public Library and local authors will cheer on, encourage, and rally around aspiring writers this November for a four-part NaNoWriMo Challenge series.  Every Tuesday, from 6-7 PM, local authors will lead a writing workshop covering a range of topics to help writers sharpen their skills and find inspiration.  Following the workshops will be informal writing time with peers and authors available to offer guidance and support.

The topic of this evening's writing workshop is: Organizing and Editing.

Presented by Karin M. Gertsch.

 

Registration is requested, but not required.  Snacks will be provided.

 

About NaNoWriMo:

National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists. NaNoWriMo is internet-famous, hosting authors drafting novels like Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire on High, Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Marissa Meyer’s Cinder, and more. 

 

About Karin:

Karin is a retired educator, who lives with her husband Emil on a Christmas tree farm in Essex, Massachusetts. In 1997, her book, Cape Ann & Vicinity: A Guide for Residents and Visitors, was published by Acorn Press just in time for the City of Gloucester’s 375th anniversary. It was the first guidebook for this historic area.

Fast forward to 2019, and Austin Macauley Publishers in New York produced her first children’s book, Flora Has an Adventure; it is the first book in a series. Also in 2019, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis published her short story, Dependence Day, in their 50th anniversary anthology honoring the anniversary of Slaughterhouse Five. Her short story, After World War II, was published by Hawai’i Pacific Review in 2020.

The author’s first novel, Five Wishes, was released on June 13, 2023 by Atmosphere Press in Austin, Texas. 

Karin is working on several Flora children’s stories as well as an adult creative non-fiction book, Monika’s Journey. When not writing or reading, the author enjoys tending her garden and baking and cooking. Spending time outdoors with her rescue pup, Oliver, is a daily event!