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International Writers Workshop Sept. 3-6, 2006
Suketu Mehta, Rohm, to lead workshop
Writers of all levels and genres welcome. This book and film workshop, inspired by an original series of talks given at Yale University by New York Times best-selling author Wendy Goldman Rohm, features some of the top people in book publishing and film. This year, the workshop is being held in the tiny village of Lacoste, France, on the mountaintop next to the Marquis de Sade's castle. It's a small event, and can accept only 20 participants. Among the speakers are: Suketu Mehta Pulitzer prize finalist and best-selling author, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found and British screenwriter Jane Hawksley The workshop includes room and board in one of the most breathtaking spots on earth, three French meals a day and wine tastings, tours and live writing sessions at remarkable historical locations, and nightly soirees with the authors and speakers. Sessions focus on all aspects of book publishing, screenwriting and adaptations, from the creative process to business issues related to: finding and working with a literary agent, developing a book or book proposal, working with publishers, and selling film and international rights. For registration deadlines and enrollment details, in the US call: 312-239-0965 or email GreatManuscripts@cs.com
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Wendy Goldman Rohm

Wendy Goldman Rohm is a New York Times bestselling
author of narrative nonfiction, investigative
journalism, fiction, poetry, and plays. Her first
book, The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against
Bill Gates (Random House, 1998)--on the antitrust
investigation of one of the most successful
corporations in the world--was published around the
world in 14 languages, and received much critical
acclaim.

Rohm recently finished her fourth book and is working
on her fifth. She most recently wrote a piece for
Men's Vogue, based on her visit with the former Prime
Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin. The
article emerged from her ongoing research for her new
book Camus' Bicycle.

Rohm has been a correspondent for numerous national
and international newspapers and magazines including:
The New York Times Syndicate International, Men's
Vogue, Wired magazine, Financial Times of London,
Tina Brown's former Talk magazine, Chicago Tribune,
Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post,
Red Herring magazine, Upside magazine, Information
Week, and many others.

[While continuing to author her own books, Rohm has
been a literary agent for The Waxman Literary Agency,
NY, NY, Waterside Productions, and an author and book
proposal ghostwriter for Sterling Lord Literistic,
New York. She also works with other international
agencies as an associate literary agent. She launched
the Rohm Agency in Chicago to develop new authors of
narrative nonfiction and fiction.]

Rohm's feature article, "Seven Days of Creation," on
the cover of Wired magazine, is a view inside the top
human cloning lab in the U.S., and the ground
breaking things that happened there during one 7-day
period in October. Rohm appeared on CNN discussing
the article, which was quoted worldwide and has been
syndicated by The New York Times Syndicate
International.

Rohm is also author of The Murdoch Mission (December
2001, John Wiley & Sons, NY), which allowed her rare
access to the Murdoch family, and included exclusive
one-on-one interviews with Rupert Murdoch and his
sons James and Lachlan, his senior executives and
closest confidants. The book was widely acclaimed for
the rare inside view it provided of Murdoch's News
Corp. empire. (Many news stories breaking now about
Murdoch's News Corp. empire, years after The Murdoch
Mission was published, were predicted and described
in detail in the book.) Rohm appeared on Good Morning
America and on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
talking about her book and the Murdoch empire.

Rohm has made numerous appearances on such national
and international television and radio broadcasts as
The Today Show, CNN’s Talk Back Live, CNN Headline
News, Connie Chung's Eye to Eye, Good Morning
America, World News Tonight, PBS' Technopolitics; and
other programs on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, BBC
television and radio, ABC Radio, National Public
Radio, and many more. In addition, her books have
been quoted in hundreds of magazines and newspapers,
and on television and radio broadcasts around the
world.

For her writing, she has received a Jesse Neal award
for editorial excellence, and two national Computer
Press awards for her investigations into the
antitrust case against Microsoft, as well as exposes
on several mega-mergers of the 1990s.

Her book The Microsoft File was a #1 bestseller on
Amazon, a Barnes & Noble bestseller, a BusinessWeek
bestseller, and a New York Times bestseller. It also
won a regional “Best Nonfiction Book of 1998” award
in Illinois. Her book “Under the Radar,” written with
Robert Young, the CEO of Red Hat Software, was Number
1 on the Asian Wall St. Journal’s business bestseller
list in 1999. Like The Microsoft File, it was
published in 12 languages around the world.

Rohm has held a series of Master's Teas at Yale
University, where, among other things, she discusses
the process of creating nonfiction and fiction,
getting an agent, working with your publisher, and
developing trusted relationships with sensitive
sources ranging from government insiders, to heads of
corporations, Nobel laureates, celebrities, fugitives
and ordinary people.

Rohm has worked as editor-at-large, managing editor,
features editor, and senior editor for a number of
major publishers, including Ziff Davis and CMP Media.
She resides in Chicago and France, and teaches a
series of intensive writing workshops in both places.
(Write to GreatManuscripts@cs.com for information
Rohm's Masters Tea workshops in Provence, France and
in Chicago. Enrollment is limited to 20 attendees per
workshop.)

Rohm has been a recipient of a Wallace Stevens Poetry
Award, and her writing has been produced Off Off
Broadway. She has also directed professionally for
the stage at Chicago's legendary Organic Theatre,
under the artistic direction of Richard Fire, and has
acted professionally over the years on such
Chicago stages as Victory Gardens, the Organic
Theatre, and others.

Rohm served for more than a decade as producer and
artistic director for Chicago's Element Theatre
Company, which has produced numerous Chicago
premieres and new plays, and received Joseph
Jefferson awards for its innovative work.

Rohm is also on the board of the Poetry Center, Chicago.

For media inquiries, more information on forthcoming
books, book workshops, seminars, online courses, and
Rohm's upcoming speeches around the country and
internationally, write GreatManuscripts@cs.com.


For workshops and classes taught by Rohm
email GreatManuscripts@cs.com

Rohm at Yale University to present honorary Masters Tea

Following the Chicago event,
COMING TO Minneapolis, Austin, San Diego,
San Francisco and Paris.

Wendy Goldman Rohm Presents
The Writers Retreat

For Narrative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry,
and Story Honing for Playwrights and Screenwriters

Story, manuscript, and script development come alive at this two-day retreat. Join a group of extraordinary writers from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, to develop your book, play, or screenplay; fine tune your manuscript, and perfect your writing in progress.

The retreat includes continental breakfast each morning, lunch, and a public cocktail reception and presentation of new writing before agents, editors and producers.

Email for more details, GreatManuscripts@cs.com
Must pre-enroll to attend.