Putting Your Passion into Print

Putting Your Passion Into Print, taught by leading literary agent Arielle

Eckstut and bestselling author David Henry Sterry, is back at

Stanford on Oct. 29th. Three students from this Stanford Continuing Studies workshop now have book deals with leading publishers. Come find out how you too can put your passion into print.

This course provides an academically rigorous yet very hands-on guide to developing a nonfiction book (memoir, travel, family history, political or medical log, etc.) for publication. By the end of this course, students should have complete professionalquality proposals for non-fiction books ready to submit to agents or editors.

In addition to de-mystifying the commercial (nonacademic) process of getting a book published, we will thoroughly explore the creative challenges involved in choosing appropriate book topics. We will examine in some detail issues of commercial viability, as well as the need for book topics to be rich, evocative, and full of personal interest to the author.