2011 OBS WRITERS’
RETREAT – JAMAICA
The 2011 OBS Writers’ Retreat – Jamaica will provide instruction from
leading industry experts. At this year's conference, November 7-13, 2011,
you'll learn how to get for the big screen, television, cable, and even tips
on blogging that gets attention, or find literary agent representation. If
you want to write books or for the stage/movie/television industry, this is
the one writer's conference you must attend. Learn from best selling
author and seasoned pros that are on the New York times’ “Best Seller”
list, have appeared on numerous television and radio shows, including
major studios. You will be given inside information you need to succeed
in a career of writing.
The 2011 OBS Writers’ Retreat – Jamaica: Instructors
Instructors
Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes is a novelist, screenwriter and life coach who
lives in Southern California. He is the author of 24 novels, including
Shadow Valley, and has been nominated for Hugo and Cable ACE
awards for his writing in television, which includes “The Outer Limits”
and “The Twilight Zone.” He is co-author of the Tennyson Hardwick
mystery series with his wife and writing partner, Tananarive Due, and
actor Blair Underwood. They won a 2009 NAACP Image Award for
the Tennyson Hardwick novel In the Night of the Heat. His blog is at
www.stevenbarnesblog.com.
Tananarive Due is a novelist, screenwriter and writing coach
who has written 12 novels—including three in the Tennyson
Hardwick mystery series with her husband and writing partner,
Steven Barnes, and actor Blair Underwood—and a civil rights
memoir with her mother, activist Patricia Stephens Due. She won a
2002 American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood and a
2009 NAACP Image Award for In the Night of the Heat. She and
Barnes sold their screenplay adaptation of her novel The Good
House to Fox Searchlight. Her writing blog, “Tananarive Due Writes,”
is at www.tananarivedue.wordpress.com.

