Bill Manville

Bill Manville, author of Writing to Get Published and Cool, Hip and Sober, is a former Village Voice Columnist, a Contributing Editor for Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmo, the author of six books published by major New York houses -- one a Book-of-the Month club selection -- and is now a columnist for the New York Daily News.

Bill also teaches "Writing to Get Published," an online class limited to eight students. For more information, ask Bill himself: whmanville@yahoo.com

Here's what Michael Korda, Editor in Chief, Simon & Schuster, says about Bill: "...the work I know best is your novel Goodbye, which I edited. What first attracted me was the dazzling prose; I was equally impressed by plot and characterization. A considerable literary accomplishment but also a Book of the Month choice, bringing an impressive price at paperback auction. What may also interest your students, I've heard you in discussion with writers like Joe Heller, Patricia Bosworth, Lois Gould and Gay Talese, and remember thinking more than once, Bill ought to be teaching it too."

PS: This is an offer I make all my students, past or present: If you have a question about writing or publishing -- one that can be put into an email no longer than 25 words - send it along. I'll answer based on my years of experience with New York agents, editors and publishers, getting my own books into print. Send it to: whmanville@yahoo.com