11-1A & 1B & 1C – no Handout
PRO RETREAT - 3 PARTS
11-4 CRAFT – Handout
BOOTCAMP FOR BEGINNING ROMANCE WRITERS
Simone Elkeles
This interactive and informative workshop will
examine common mistakes of beginning writers,
industry terminology, and how to prepare your
submission so that it has the best chance of
being read and accepted by an editor or agent.
11-5 CRAFT – no Handout
WRITING IS AN ADDICTION – A TWELVE-STEP
PROGRAM TO SUCCESS
Sharon Sala
This workshop will talk about how to deal with
the frustration of rejection, along with 12
ways to keep a writer’s spirit alive and
well as he/she continues on the road to publication.
11-6 CRAFT – Handout
WRITING THE SELLING SYNOPSIS
Nancy Robards Thompson and Katherine Garbera
Multi published authors share their techniques
learned from selling more than 35 books to over
20 editors at four different houses.
11-7 RESEARCH – Handout
FROM ALLELES TO ZYGOTES: UPDATED DNA ANALYSIS
FOR WRITERS
Jessica Andersen
Join RITA-award nominee as she takes you from
secret babies, lost families and forensic analysis
to learn what genetic analysis can (and can’t)
tell your characters in 2006.
11-8 RESEARCH – Handout
FROM PELISSE TO CHEMISE
Heidi Hermiller
Professional costume designer will go through
the process of undressing a Regency heroine.
This is a costume show-and-tell with historically
accurate garments from coat to corset.
11-9 CAREER – Handout
WHEN EVERYONE STARES: PRESENTING WITH PIZZAZZ
Natalie Eggeman
Whether you’re pitching to an editor,
teaching a workshop, talking at a booksigning
or sitting on a panel, you’ll need (and
want) to look and sound professional. Video
producer Eggeman shares tips gleaned from 16
years of making “the talent” at
NBC news look and sound confident.
11-10 CAREER – Handout
GROUP LOOPS . . . AND BLOGS AND ADS
Dianne Castell, LuAnn McLane, Janice Maynard
and Karen Kelley
Four members of the Vamps and Scamps and Spicy
Romance loop/blog discuss the logistics, advantages,
and disadvantages of running with a pack. Learn
their hints for spending less time and money
while gaining more exposure, finding new readers,
and having lots of fun.
11-11 CRAFT – Handout
DIALOGUE: IT’S MORE THAN WHAT YOU SAY
Julia Quinn
Dialogue touches every aspect of your novel.
Come fine-tune your skills with this New York
Times best-selling author.
11-12 CAREER – no Handout
REINVENTING YOUR CAREER SUCCESS: MAKING IT
ALL COME TOGETHER
Hayworth Smith
Join an acclaimed writer as she discusses career
tools for reconciling what authors want and
need to write with the changing marketplaces.
She’ll also discuss how to and when to
make career-boosting plans or changes, and the
Seven Deadly Signs of career stagnation.
11-13 CRAFT – Handout
FITZWILLIAM DARCH TO HARRY POTTER: HOW NAMES
ADD DEPTH TO FICTION
Jo Beverly
This workshop explores the way the right or
wrong name affects a novel and how to come up
with names that work.
11-14 RESEARCH – no Handout
CRIME IN MIND
Rae Monet and Karin Tabke
Join these experts to discover how to make
your law enforcement officials zing with authority
and your writing dance with the realism of equipment
and regulations.
11-15 CAREER – Handout
PERSISTENCE – Do You Have What It Takes
to Survive and Thrive?
Jennifer Greene (Alison Hart) and Ruth Kaufman
Career planning involves more than merely sticking
with it. A multiple Rita Winner/RWA Hall of
Fame member and an ‘almost there’
author examine how to use contests, submissions,
rejections, and more to help participants put
together a realistic career plan.
11-16 WRITERS LIFE/MUSE – Handout
WRITE 50 BOOKS IN A YEAR!
Elle James and Delilah Devlin
Time to punch up your production without losing
your sanity? First step – finding what’s
been stopping you, determining goals and creating
a master plan to crank out those pages. This
workshop will help you to create clear weekly
as well as yearly plans plus project specific
goals. You, too, can ramp up your creative output.
11-17 SPECIAL – no Handout
LEADERSHIP 101: AN INTRODUCTION TO VOLUNTEER
ACTIVITIES WITHIN RWA
Carol Prescott
Interested in running for the Board of Directors?
Or maybe it’s committee work that inspires
you. Three former Emma Merritt Service Award
winners will give you the skinny on how to get
involved with RWA.
11-18 CRAFT – Handout
FRESH CHARACTERS: UNLIKELY HEROINES
Emily Griffin and Stephany Evans
Chick Lit, so wildly popular for the last several
years, is beginning to fizzle a bit. Could it
be time for a fresh approach, one that offers
heroines that a few years ago would have seemed
unlikely? Join Emily Griffin and agent Stephany
Evans as they talk about bucking trends and
finding success by doing it.
11-19 PUBLISHING – Handout
FINDING YOUR FUNKY BIRD: A NEW APPROACH TO
MARKETING YOUR MANUSCRIPT
Lani Diane Rich
The standard approach to query letters is to
offer a quick overview of the story, but that
ignores a basic tenet of marketing: It’s
not what makes you better; it’s what makes
you different. Join a RITA-winning author as
she shows you how every book, including yours,
has at least one element that makes it different,
which will be the one element that heightens
the interest of agents and editors and makes
them request that partial.
11-20 RESEARCH – Handout
DROWNED DAMES, MAULED MEN & CRISPY CRITTERS:
A BODY DISPOSAL PRIMER FOR WRITERS
Jeanne Pickering Adams
A fascinating look at what happens –
or should happen – to the body of the
character you killed off: how to get it right,
twist up the plot and make your book shine with
good detail!
11-21 CRAFT – Handout
A SAGGING MIDDLE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Gail Martin
Authors know the beginning and end of their
manuscripts, but what about the 50 – 80
K words in between? Award-winning author Gail
Martin shows how to write a middle that keeps
the reader hooked.
11-22 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Thursday July 27, 2006 - MEG CABOT
11-23 CAREER – Handout
LEGAL ISSUES FOR WRITERS
Teresa Bodwell
Lawsuits are expensive, and most contracts
put the burden on the author to ensure you’re
not infringing on someone else’s rights.
A practicing attorney and author of historical
romances explains an author’s legal rights
and obligations, and how to avoid getting into
trouble in the first place.
11-24 CRAFT – Handout
WRITING ACTION SCENES
Gail Dayton
Join LUNA author Gail Dayton as she teaches
how to understand the best structure for showing
action of any kind and then build on that understanding
to create action scenes that are as active and
exciting as they need to be to grab an editor
or a reader’s attention and keep it.
11-25 CAREER – no Handout
CHILLING VILLAINS
Karen Rose and Madeline Hunter
This workshop will explain how you can create
more chilling villains using characterization,
plot and the psychology of evil.
11-26 CAREER – Handout
RECOGNIZING CHANGE – IN YOURSELF AND
IN YOUR CHARACTERS
Kellie Finley
Change is often a difficult and confusing process
– for us as individual writers and certainly
for the characters we create in our stories.
Join this experienced teacher for a better understanding
of the characteristics of change, both what
it is and what it actually feels like.
11-27 CRAFT – Handout
A CHICK LIT HERO’S JOURNEY OR IT’S
NOT JUST ABOUT THE SHOES
Eileen Rendhal
Using examples from her own books and other
recent popular titles, this author will show
how applicable the hero’s journey is to
these books and how very heroic the heroines
are.
11-28 CRAFT – Handout
SPICE UP YOUR ROMANCE NOVEL
Annette Blair
From sweet and tangy to zesty and exotic, critically-acclaimed
author Annette Blair will explore recipes for
a delicious read – everything from colors
and textures and the way they add to sensual
to tension of the story to using your characters’
deepest needs and fears to make their sexual
arcs richer.
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