Elsie Sze - Aspiring to be a Blockbuster Bestselling Author? Reconciling t...
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Aspiring to be a Blockbuster Bestselling Author? Reconciling the Dream with the Reality
Workshop Leader: Elsie Sze
Description: Every potential fiction writer’s dream is to have his/her published work become an overnight bestseller. However, the winding path to success and recognition is not a smooth or easy one; There can be bumps and hurdles, disappointments and rejections along the way. This workshop is to offer you helpful hints after you have completed, revised and edited your first manuscript. It will offer you what to expect, and how to overcome those inevitable trials and tribulations experienced by most aspiring writers. Elsie Sze is the author of three published novels, Hui Gui: a Chinese story (2005), The Heart of the Buddha (2009), and most recently, Ghost Cave: a novel of Sarawak (2014). In 2013, Sze won the inaugural Saphira Prize, a literary prize offered by Women in Publishing Society, Hong Kong for her manuscript "Ghost Cave". Ghost Cave: a novel of Sarawak was published and launched in Hong Kong in March, 2014.