The Book Inside You -- New York Author Offers Email Course About How to Write a Book
Dr. Charles Patterson, award-winning author of the internationally acclaimed ETERNAL TREBLINKA, is offering a course by email based on the course he teaches in the Hunter College Continuing Education program in New York City. The course--called "The Book Inside You: Writing Your Own Book"--is for those who want to write a book but need help getting started.
(PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- Charles Patterson, Ph.D., author of "ETERNAL
TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust," is teaching a course
this fall in the Continuing Education program of Hunter College in New York City
called "The Book Inside You: Writing Your Own Book." He is also offering the
course to people who live outside New York as an email correspondence
course.
The course, which looks at the book-making process from
inspiration to publication, is centered around assignments designed to help an
aspiring book author advance her or his project in three areas crucial to
writing a book:
1) BIG PICTURE -- Imagining how your book will
look
Assignment: outlining and/or summarizing the work (annotated chapter
outline for nonfiction; plot synopsis for fiction)
2) GETTING SOMETHING
DOWN ON PAPER -- Sample pages
Assignment: 10-15 pages of writing (sample
writing is an important ingredient for book proposals)
3) REACHING OUT --
Contacting publishers and agents
Assignment: writing a query letter and
book proposal
Those who live in or near New York City can take the
course in person at Hunter College on the East Side of Manhattan. It will be
taught twice in the fall of 2004:
Section 1
TUE 5:30:PM -
7:30:PM
Sept. 14 - Oct. 19 Sessions: 6
Section 2
TUE 5:30:PM -
7:30:PM
Nov. 02 - Dec. 14 Sessions: 6
To register for the course
online, go to the Hunter College Continuing Education web page:
http://ce.hunter.cuny.edu/courses/coursedetails.cfm?course_webid=1370
To
take the "The Book Inside You" course by email, click on "Visit Our Site" under
CONTACT INFORMATION in the column to the right. When you reach the site, click
on "Book Course."
If you have any questions, please email me using the
link at the top of the column at the right.
I live in New York City where
for 30 years I've been actively involved with books in one way or
another--writing, editing, and teaching writing and literature. As the author of
ten adult and young adult books, I've had extensive experience with book writing
and the publishing world. I'm a longtime member of The Authors Guild, the PEN
American Center, and the National Writers Union.
My most recent book
ETERNAL TREBLINKA has become something of an international sensation. Two years
after its publication in the United States it has been translated into five
European languages (Italian, Polish, Czech, German, and Croatian).
The
book's title comes from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, to whom the book is dedicated. He was the first major modern author to
describe the exploitation and slaughter of animals in terms of the Holocaust.
"In relation to them, all people are Nazis," he wrote, "for animals it is an
eternal Treblinka." (Treblinka was a Nazi death camp north of
Warsaw.)
Soon after Lantern Books published the book in New York in 2002,
it began attracting the attention of foreign publishers, and soon translations
were underway.
In April, 2003, the Roman publishing house of Editori
Riuniti published the Italian edition (Un'eterna Treblinka), and the following
month Vega!POL published the Polish edition (Wieczna Treblinka).
In
September, 2003, the publishing house Prah in Prague published the Czech edition
(Vecna Treblinka), which has been reviewed favorably by such leading
publications as the literature/history/arts magazine ALTERNATIVA, the quarterly
DOKORAN (bulletin of the Czech Writers' Guild), and the LITERARNI NOVINY, the
most important and widely read literary newspaper in the Czech
Republic.
The German edition of ETERNAL TREBLINKA--"Für die Tiere ist
jeden Tag Treblinka" ("For the Animals Every Day is Treblinka")--has just been
published in Germany by Zweitausendeins in Frankfurt.
The Croatian
edition (Vjecna Treblinka) will be published by the Genesis publishing house in
Zagreb later this year.
Publishers in France, The Netherlands, Norway,
Chile, India, Israel, Romania, and Russia are also reviewing the book for
possible publication.
What They're Saying--
"I urge you to read
ETERNAL TREBLINKA and think deeply about its important message. " --Dr. Jane
Goodall
"Compelling, controversial, iconoclastic...strongly
recommended...a unique contribution." --Midwest Book Review
"ETERNAL
TREBLINKA should be on every list of essential reading for an informed
citizenry...for the compelling comprehensiveness of the life-and-death story it
tells." --National Jewish Post & Opinion
"The whole effect is a very
powerful document...No one who reads this book will fail to be moved."
--Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals
"A must read! -- how
mistreatment of animals leads to the dehumanization and extermination of people
as 'mere animals.' Well-written and respectful of both Judaism and the
Holocaust." --Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
"There are good
books...entertaining, useful, informative; great books...whose message reveals a
fundamental truth previously unknown or overlooked; and important books...that
can save lives and ameliorate suffering: ETERNAL TREBLINKA is all three."
--Satya Magazine, New York City
"The moral challenge posed by ETERNAL
TREBLINKA turns it into a must for anyone who seeks to delve into the universal
lesson of the Holocaust." --Maariv (Israeli newspaper)
"Important and
timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion...I hope that ETERNAL
TREBLINKA will be widely read." --Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust
publication)
"Every so often a book is written that has the potential to
make an incredible difference. ETERNAL TREBLINKA is one such book." --N. Glenn
Perrett
"Thorough and thought-provoking book" --Ha'aretz (Israeli
newspaper)
"It is seldom that such a comprehensive work of scholarship
springs from a heart of compassion in the service of a noble and necessary idea.
All the ingredients of your thesis--that the oppression of animals serves as the
model for all other forms of oppression--have been available to thinking people
for generations, but it remained for you to pull them together." --Helen Weaver,
author of THE DAISY SUTRA
"Powerful, moving, gut-wrenching,
brilliant--destined to be a classic" --Aviva Cantor, journalist and
author
"You must read this carefully documented book" --La Stampa
(Italian national newspaper)
"...promises to be one of the most
influential books of the 21st century." --Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry
Concerns
"It grips like a thriller." --The Freethinker (UK)
"This
book is going to change the world."
--Albert Kaplan, Albert Kaplan & Co.,
Johns Island, SC
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Writing a book is
not easy, I grant you, but the rewards and satisfactions that come from doing so
are great. Take my word for it that it's very much worth the time and effort you
put into it. Once you've written and published your book, seeing where it takes
you will be a very exciting adventure. It may even change your
life.
So...if you're willing and ready to begin your journey, you're more
than welcome to get started.
Onward!
Charles Patterson
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