Below you'll find more information about her writing conference presentations and workshops.

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Presentations and Workshop for Writers

 Elizabeth Rusch has spoken at writing conferences and universities about magazine writing, nonfiction writing, book marketing, and writing for children. Her lively, interactive presentations always offer inspiration, exercises, practical advice, and hand-outs. Speaking topics include:

• Go to the Source: The art and science of finding and interviewing experts
• Break into Any Magazine Market
• Break into Children's and YA Magazine Markets
• Listen to the Children: How to get meaningful feedback from children on your board books, picture books, and novels.
• The Great Multiplier: Market your book through magazine articles
• Smaller Presses, Big Successes
• Developing Nonfiction Books
• Fine-tuning Picture Books
• The Writer/Editor Collaboration
• Find the Story: How to write nonfiction children's books that read like fiction
• Write a Killer Query
• The Nuts and Bolts of Magazine Writing
• The Nuts and Bolts of Writing for Children
• The Nuts and Bolts of Picture Book Writing

School Visits on Writing and Researching

 Elizabeth Rusch loves visiting elementary, middle and high schools to share her writing and researching experiences. Rusch will spend a minimum of one day at a school. The day can be a combination of schoolwide or multi-class presentations and classroom writing workshops. However, if two schools want to split her time, she is willing to go to one for half the day and to the other for the other half. She will stay for signings and book fairs in the evening at no additional cost.

The school-wide writing and research presentation includes:

• A photo journey as she researches Mount St. Helens, the story behind what happened to Pluto, and other book and article topics. (Including why she had to wear the same socks for 10 days straight without washing them!)
• Her struggles to get her books from initial idea to published book.
• How she uses real-life experience when she makes up stories and how she writes true stories that are as gripping as fiction.
• How important good research and revision are in the writing process.