Have you written a manuscript, a novel or memoir, but you don't know how to make it better? Do you dream of writing a novel or memoir but you don't know where to begin?  Katharine will read your manuscript (up to 300 [pages) and provide writing and publication advice either in person or on the phone/skype, depending on geography. If you do not yet have a manuscript, you can bid on this to win a focused conversation of equivalent focus about your intentions, with a goal of developing strategies for writing and publication.

Katharine Weber is the award-winning author of five novels and a memoir. She has recently been appointed to the Richard L. Thomas Chair at Kenyon College, where she will teach fiction and creative nonfiction, having taught fiction writing to undergraduates at Yale (for eight years), Goucher College, and Connecticut College. She has been a thesis advisor for the MFA writing program at Columbia University for the last six years. Her most recent book is the memoir The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities (2011). Her novels are: True Confections (2011), Triangle (2006), The Little Women (2003), The Music Lesson (1999) and Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (1995).  She is currently writing a novel about a monkey helper. Visit her website.