Press Release

3/17/2008

It’s a Writer’s Workshop called:  “Let’s Write a Book.”

Robert L. Fenton, adjunct professor at Marygrove College, a Detroit local celebrity, literary agent, former sports-entertainment lawyer, Hollywood producer and best-selling author is teaching creative writing at Marygrove with “great success and much enthusiasm from the participants,” according to the Dean of Continuing Education. 

Participants attend a 12-hour workshop over a four-day period to earn a Continuing Education unit from Marygrove.  The next writer’s workshops will be offered in fall of 2008 at Marygrove College.

Due to the success of “Let’s Write a Book” at Marygrove in the Continuing Education program, Fenton will embark on another whirlwind tour of “Robert L. Fenton Writer’s Workshops” at various Ford Motor Company locations throughout the country.

Ford Educational Training coordinators participate in the program to have their employees exposed to different topics offered by Fenton.  For those who only fantasize about writing their first novel, they can actually try to make it happen. 

One of the first objectives is to write an outline for their first manuscript, either a novel or non-fiction.  Participants learn writing skills whether it is fiction about politics, or non-fiction in business writing, sports writing, or writing a cookbook.

 The former Hollywood film producer, Universal Studios and 20^th Century Fox, is an adjunct professor versed in many languages and can assist people in most phases of writing including fiction, non-fiction and short stories as well. 

The University of Michigan alumnus has been active in the political arena.  He was a recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Medal in the City of Detroit in 1973 and a financial campaign chairman for Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick in 2001.  Through his writing and public relations, he campaigned for other elected government officials and edited many other writers’ novels.

Fenton is also working on a future fundamental “Business Writing Skills Made Simple” workshop for administrative assistants, supervisors and secretaries.  Basically, this workshop will be for anyone who sends e-mails, writes reports, memorandums, business letters, proposals, plans, correspondence and employee presentations. 

To participate in other Robert L. Fenton writer’s workshops in cooperation with Marygrove’s Continuing Education Department, his website is www.robertlfenton.com.   E-mail your name and address to fenent@msn.com.

Dean Martha Soleau, Continuing Education Division, may be called at the Marygrove College campus for a catalogue of current class schedules at

(313) 927-1464.

Also potential writers may refer to www.robertlfenton.com if they would like Fenton to critique their first-novel outline without attending a workshop.

Fenton has been a literary agent for over 20 years in Farmington Hills, MI.  His phone numbers are (248) 855-8780 or (248) 474-8709.