11-86 CRAFT – Handout
POINTERS ON POINT OF VIEW
Lynnette Kent
Award-winning author Lynnette Kent leads this
interactive workshop on the conventions and
complications of different types of point of
view to help authors choose the best POV’s
for their story.
11-87 RESEARCH – Handout
AFTER THE CRIME
Dianne Despain
Join multi-published author Dianne Despain
as she takes you through the trauma of victimization,
exploring all the essential victim factors that
can make a good book even better. Special emphasis
will be on the specific writing points every
writer must understand in order to make their
crime victim real.
11-88 CRAFT – Handout
VOICE AND CONFLICT: BLEND THEM AND MAKE BEN
AND JERRY PROUD!
Leah Vale
Author Leah Vale gives tips on strengthening
your character’s voice in a way that will
guarantee strong conflict, snag the reader’s
attention quicker, develop a motto for your
characters and allow your characters to grow
and change, leading to an epiphany moment.
11-89 PUBLISHING – Handout
JANE AUSTEN, THE MOTHER OF ALL CHICK LIT
Shanna Swendson and Kirstin Nelson
The works of Jane Austen provide an ideal model
to demonstrate what distinguishes chick lit
from romance, what makes a chick lit book stand
out from all those other books about dating
and shopping, and what makes a book both a vivid
portrait of its time and a timeless classic.
11-90 SPOTLIGHT – no Handout
SPOTLIGHT ON KENSINGTON
11-91 CAREER – Handout
LIMBO-LIMBO: A FUN SURVIVAL CLASS FOR THE NOT-YET-PUBLISHED
Jeanne Pickering Adams and Leah Grant
Learn how to stay motivated while awaiting
the call by setting personal milestones, keeping
a sense of humor, and establishing your own
personal “feel good” plan for handling
rejections. Two supple sirens (RWA Pros, published
in nonfiction) will dance you through the steps.
11-92A CAREER – Handout
EVERTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HAVING
A WEB SITE BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK Part 1 of
2
Kellie Finley
Your Web site needs to communicate information
and image, to reflect both you and your writing.
In this in-person version of her popular on-line
class, Kellie will help you learn how to maximize
the effectiveness and appeal of your site.
11-92B CAREER – Handout
EVERTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HAVING
A WEB SITE BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK Part 2 of
2
Kellie Finley
Your Web site needs to communicate information
and image, to reflect both you and your writing.
In this in-person version of her popular on-line
class, Kellie will help you learn how to maximize
the effectiveness and appeal of your site.
11-94 RESEARCH – Handout
50 WAYS TO (NEARLY) KILL YOUR LOVER
Amber Green
This workshop will navigate 50 ways to sharpen
the realism of your villain’s attempts
to do in your hero/heroine by peppering realistic
details that will help you maintain essential
emotional connections with your reader.
11-95 WRITERS LIFE/MUSE – Handout
ENERGY HEALIN FOR WRITERS
Jade Lee
If you’re feeling blocked, scattered
or confused as a writer, maybe it’s time
to examine and de-clutter your energy fields.
Join healer and writer, Jade Lee, to understand
more about your individual energy and how to
clear and access your own creative power.
11-96 CRAFT – Handout
CRAFTING A GREAT FIRST CHAPTER
Stacy Boyd and Susan Litman
Join Harlequin editors Stacy Boyd and Susan
Litman as they show you how to craft a compelling
first chapter. Three multi-award winning, best-selling,
prolific authors, an agent, and an editor share
the secrets for achieving success at each level
of your writing career.
11-97 WRITERS LIFE/MUSE – Handout
PAYOFFS AND PITFALLS OF CONTESTS
Tanya Michaels
Want to learn how to maximize writing contests
while keeping expectations realistic? Tanya
Michaels, whose first two sales were the direct
results of contest finals, will share with you
the pros and cons of contests while teaching
you how to make them work for you!
11-98 CAREER – Handout
60 MINUTES TO YOUR MARKETING STRATEGY
Deborah Pfeiffer and Blythe Gifford
Make marketing work for you! With the help
of marketing and publishing professionals, you’ll
learn how to develop your own “10-minute
marketing strategy.” You’ll then
be guided through a practical, hands-on exercise
to create your very own branding slogan that
you can implement right away.
11-99 CRAFT – Handout
WHO’S ON TOP? INTIMACY, CONTROL AND CONFLICT
Virginia Kantra
Using examples from other bestselling authors
and her own work, USA Today bestseller and five-time
RITA finalist Virginia Kantra explores the tension
between the character arc and romance arc and
how to reconcile them into an emotionally satisfying
story.
11-100 CRAFT – Handout
HOW TO DE-LATINIZE YOUR LATINO CHARACTERS
Lara Rios, Caren Johnson, and Selena McLemore
Author Lara Rios, agent Caren Johnson of Firebrand
Literary Agency and editor Selena McLemore,
show how not to resort to stereo-types, and
how to write believable Latino characters that
publishers are willing to buy.
11-101 CAREER – no Handout
WALKING THE TIGHTROPE: WRITING MORE THAN ONE
KIND OF ROMANCE
Jill Shalvis, Leslie Kelly, Jenny Bent and Brenda
Chin
Though conventional wisdom says you should
start out targeting one aspect of romance fiction,
there are plenty of authors who have gone on
to walk the line between single title and category
romance, maintaining a successful career in
both. Two of them – award-winning authors
Jill Shalvis and Leslie Kelly – joined
by editor Brenda Chin and literary agent Jenny
Bent will share what they’ve learned,
good and bad, about walking that tightrope.
11-102 SPOTLIGHT – no Handout
SPOTLIGHT ON MIRA/RED DRESS INK/HQN
11-103 CHAT WITH – no Handout
CHAT WITH . . . CARLY PHILLIPS
11-105 CRAFT – Handout
HOW TO HOOK AN EDITOR ON THE FIRST PAGE
Dianna Love Snell, Allison Lyons and Annie Oortman
This panel, including Silhouette editor Allison
Lyons, discusses how to hold an editor’s
attention past the all-important first page,
dissecting good and bad openings.
11-106 SPOTLIGHT – no Handout
SPOTLIGHT ON RED SAGE
11-107 CRAFT – Handout
WRITING THE INSPIRATIONAL NOVEL:KEEPING IT
REAL AND RELEVANT
Terri Reed, Diane Dietz, Marta Perry and Krista
Stoever
Multi-published inspirational authors, Terri
Reed, Marta Perry, and editors Krista Stoever
and Diane Dietz of Steeple Hill show how to
write a faith-filled story that doesn’t
preach, condemn, or sugarcoat life.
11-108 SPOTLIGHT – no Handout
SPOTLIGHT ON WARNER
11-109 RESEARCH – no Handout
CHARACTER AND CULTURE
Sharman Esarey
Research indicates that cultural values often
differ dramatically. This workshop will shed
light on some of these core differences and
explore the possible tensions that might arise
when two cultures meet.
11-110 CAREER – Handout
AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE: THE EDITOR/AUTHOR RELATIONSHIP
Raelene Gorlinsky, Kate Douglas, Sylvia Day,
Erin McCarthy and Kris Starr
Join Raelene Gorlinsky, Managing Editor of
Ellora’s Cave, in an entertaining and
informative workshop that compares the working
reality of the relationship between an editor
and their authors by comparison to a Victorian
arranged marriage.
11-111 CAREER – Handout
GUERILLA TACTICS FOR REINVENTING YOURSELF
Charlotte Maclay, Lori Wilde and Karen Kosztelnyik
Two award-winning, best-selling authors and
a Warner Books editor provide constructive ways
to reinvent yourself when your line folds, doors
are slammed in your face, and the rejections
begin to build up.
11-112 CRAFT – no Handout
UNIQUE TRAITS OF WRITING ACTION/ADVENTURE FOR
WOMEN
Vicki Hinze and Debra Webb
Award-winning authors Vicki Hinze and Debra
Webb explore the special traits required in
writing publishable action/adventure targeted
to a female audience.
11-113 CRAFT – Handout
THREE WOMEN IN A BOOK: TURNING NOVELLA INTO
A NOVEL
Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer and Anne Stuart
Join Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer, and Anne
Stuart as they discuss the process of turning
three linked novellas about sisters with paranormal
powers, and beyond normal problems into one
novel, The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes. Learn
how they brainstormed, argued, structured, drafted,
and rewrote a single novel from three separate
narratives.
11-114 CRAFT – Handout
THREE ACT STRUCTURE: PULL THE READER IN, AVOID
THE SAGGING MIDDLE, AND EXIT ON A HIGH NOTE
Ann Voss Peterson, Rebecca York and Patricia
Rosemoor
Three award-winning authors who consistently
sell to major New York markets show how to write
a book that pulls the reader right into the
action, keeps her turning the pages, and wraps
up with a happy-ever-after ending that will
leave her with a warm glow.
11-115 CRAFT – no Handout
A CAST OF THOUSANDS
Suzanne Brockmann
Writing books with recurring or crossover characters
is one way to build a readership, but it’s
not always as easy as it looks. Join Rita-winning
author Suzanne Brockmann as she discusses the
pitfalls and payoffs of writing stories with
recurring characters.
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