Who Can Join insert

You must be an author with at least one active novel in progress.
You must be an Affiliate of the "Crosstimbers Author Consortium" . If you are not already a member, go to "CrosstimbersAuthorConsortium Application" 
You must be at least 18
You must have at lealst one draft chapter to share with the membership
You must have done at least one in-depth review on Writing.Com to share with the membership
You must agree to respect the confidentiality of the works that you review

The "Crosstimbers Novel Workshop Application"  asks that you provide a link to a chapter of your novel and to an in-depth reivew that you have given. The managers of the Workshop may share this information with current Workshop authors to help assist in deciding whether you would be a good fit for the Workshop as it's currently configured.

How will we decide what's a good fit?

Partly it's subjective. Has your first chapter hooked at least some of us enough that we'd like to read more? Would we like to get reviews like the one you submitted?

Partly it has to do with member commitments. Do the Workshop members who would like to read your novel have the time, or are they already fully committed to other projects?

Partly it has to do with other factors. We try to keep our Workshop membership small, ten or fewer authors, so that we can get to know each other. That means that we need new members to "fit" in terms of genre. If we've got six fantasy authors and only two SciFi authors, a fantasy novelist might not be approved while a SciFi one would.

While your work has to be of good quality to be approved, it's supposed to be first draft. It's far more likely the decision will turn on other things, like matching with preferences of current members or the current mix of genres in the Workshop. We actually like working with eager-to-learn, first-time novelists.

The only way to find out is to apply, which costs nothing.

We'll respond to your application fairly quickly, usually within a week. If it turns out you're not a good fit, tell yourself that it's the quirky tastes of authors, or just bad timing. You should never think it's because you're not good enough.