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8-001 CRAFT – H/O
PAGE-TURNING PACING
Jackie Stephens
Good pacing – you know it when you read
it, but it’s hard to achieve. This workshop
will give you practical, direct tips on picking
up the pace so that the reader never loses interest
in your story events.
8-002 RESEARCH – H/O
POLICE PROCEDURE AND CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONS:
GETTING IT RIGHT
Deborah Lanata & Susan Lowe
Find the best way to achieve realism and accuracy
when writing cop characters into any story.
Learn about crime-scene procedures, evidence
collection, DNA, and fingerprints. Two police
officers will discuss the unusual research strategies
that can help you incorporate both the coldly
realistic and surprisingly comic elements of
police work that make a manuscript stand out.
8-006 CAREER – N/A
THE SAVVY AGENT’S SECRET TO SUCCESS
Irene Goodman
Join prominent agent and RWR columnist Irene
Goodman for a first-hand discussion of her secrets
and tips on how to craft your writing career
so that it moves forward with energy, in the
direction you want it to go. Learn to identify
the green lights in your career and how to build
on them. With good planning, you will stay focused
on your goals and plan the fastest and most
direct route to achieve them.
8-007 PUBLISHING – N/A
THE NITTY, GRITTY, DOWN AND DIRTY TRUTH ABOUT
WRITING THE BLOCKBUSTER NOVEL
Debbie Macomber & Joan Johnston
During this blockbuster Mapquest, RWA Honor
Roll authors define “blockbuster”
and identify its elements, including trendspotting,
getting your agent on board, convincing your
readership, attracting booksellers’ attention,
and staying sane while waiting for the results
to be tallied. Debbie and Joan’s experience
can provide authors at any career stage with
concrete insight into that elusive blockbuster
concept.
8-008 CRAFT – N/A
UNLOCKING THE COSMIC TOOLKIT: WHAT EVERY ROMANCE
WRITER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BUILDING STRONGER NOVELS
Pamela Regis
Professor Regis wrote the book on romance novels
(A Natural History of the Romance Novel). In
this workshop, she will use examples from great
romance novels to show how to create powerful
and emotionally moving love stories, using these
eight key events: a definition of the heroine’s
and hero’s society, their meeting, the
barrier, the attraction, the declaration, the
point of ritual death, the recognition, and
the betrothal.
8-017 CRAFT – H/O
LOVE, LIFE, SEX, AND THE ALPHA MALE
Jane Porter
Harlequin Presents author is famous for her
Alpha heroes – men who know what they
want, and know how to get it. Join her in a
psychological exploration of these powerful,
compelling men.
8-022 CRAFT – H/O
WHAT READERS WANT (IT’S NOT WHAT YOU
THINK)
Susan Wiggs
Drawing on the everyday lives of ordinary people,
invent extraordinary stories about issues that
resonate deeply with readers. A best-selling
author of historicals, contemporaries, and women’s
fiction offers tips, techniques and resources
for novels that are emotionally authentic, psychologically
true and dramatically rewarding.
8-035 PUBLISHING – H/O
SECRETS OF THE BESTSELLING SISTERHOOD
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jayne Ann Krentz,
Patricia Reynolds Smith
Two best-selling authors and an editor discuss
what the bestseller lists teach us and how we
can apply these “divine secrets”
to our own careers. Come prepared for challenging
ideas and stimulating discussion about the nature
of romance fiction and the reason for its prominent
place on the bestseller lists.
8-036 CRAFT – H/O
TEN TWISTS TO UNRAVEL YOUR PLOT KNOTS
Cheryl Ann Porter
Award-winning author will present a fun and
informative hour geared toward keeping your
novel’s plot on track and you producing
publishable pages, tIps on picking up the pace
so that the reader never loses interest in your
story events.
8-039 CRAFT – H/O
COMPLETING THE CONNECTION, ON BEYOND CONFLICT
Kate Moore
Romantic conflict – and romantic resolution
– require a deep connection between lovers
that goes far beyond mere lust. Award-winning
author Kate Moore will use examples from intensely
satisfying romance novels to help you discover
the deep instincts that connect your hero and
your heroine, and the conflict and power this
connection brings out in the characters.
8-050 CRAFT – H/O
GOING DEEP WITH POV
Suzanne Brockmann
With deep point of view, a writer crawls inside
her characters’ heads and provides an
intensely personal, first-person feel to the
story. RITA-award-winner Suz Brockmann will
discuss the importance of the separation of
the author’s voice from that of her characters,
as well as using POV to add suspense, to introduce
and develop characters, and to reveal or hide
secrets from the readers.
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