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 What: FCRW holds our monthly meetings on the 2nd Saturday of each month.
Where: Meetings
are held at the West Regional Library:
1425 Chaffee Road, Jacksonville, FL.
JUNE 13 A pre-conference triple-header! Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Pitching Your Book A Cold Reads Extravaganza How To Keep Friends & Improve Your Writing: Running A Top-Notch Critique Group
TBA
with Renee Ryan This workshop will focus on SUBTEXT or what lies beneath the surface of every scene. Renee will expand on the premise that "the scene is never about what the scene is about". She will give solid, concrete tools for writers to use to create a strong subtext in every scene. The main focus will be on word choice and style, strong verbs and concrete nouns, body language and setting. By consciously using these simple tools, writers will learn how to take their writing to the next level. Renee Ryan sold her first book, Extreme Measures, to Dorchester Publishing by winning the inaugural New Historical Voice Contest in 2002. She reconciled her writing with her faith in 2006. Early 2007 she sold her first Inspirational Romance to Steeple Hill’s Love Inspired Historical line (LIH). The Marshall Takes a Bride, Book One in the Charity House series, is a February 2009 release for LIH. Hannah’s Beau, Book Two in the Charity House series, is a July 2009 release. Learn more at www.ReneeRyan.com
TBA
Location 11:00am - 12:30 12:30 - 1:30pm 1:30pm - 2:30pm 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Recent Meetings... JANUARY 10, 2009 Introduction of New Board, Goal Setting, and Workshop... Alesia Holliday, Tracy Montoya, Anita Tooke, Maggie Toussaint present: Nuts and Bolts – all you ever wanted to know about the basics of publishing: from the differing perspectives of e-publishing, small press publishing, HQ/Sil category publishing, and NY single title publishing. Tracy Montoya is an award-winning Harlequin Intrigue author who edits a nonprofit magazine and newsletter in her spare time. Her articles have appeared in the Romance Writers Report, Martha Stewart's Body + Soul, Natural Home, Yes!, Hope, and the National Green Pages. Find out more about her Intrigues at www.tracymontoya.com. Anita Lourcey Tooke - One of a rare breed, a native Floridian, Anita was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, and is one of eleven children. Two years after graduating she married her high school sweetheart and moved her family to Middleburg looking for some peace and quiet. A burning desire for an in-ground pool prompted Anita to begin her first novel which was published in 2002. She writes romantic suspense and often uses her very dark dreams in her writing. After 29 years of marriage her husband has gotten used to being awakened by screaming and isn’t nearly as jumpy as he used to be. She is currently working on three suspense novels and continues to dream her way to the coveted Rita Award. First Coast author Maggie Toussaint was published by three small presses in 2008. She’s experienced publishing through the eyes of four different editors in mystery and romance fiction. From contracts, rewrites, copy-edits, galleys, the small press world strives for excellence, as shown in Maggie’s debut novel, HOUSE OF LIES, which won the 2007 National Readers’ Choice Award for Best Romantic Suspense. Themes threaded through Maggie’s work include family issues, the search for wholeness, and justice. To learn more about her books, visit www.maggietoussaint.com. Alesia Holliday, aka Alyssa Day, is the RITA-award winning and USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and one non-fiction book. Please visit her online at www.alyssaday.com.
FEBRUARY 14, 2009 How Editors Think / After the Contract In a two-part workshop, well-respected publishing industry insider Marcela Landres shares her wisdom on capturing the attention and interest of New York editors and on maximizing your book sales after publication. Marcela is an editorial consultant who works one-on-one with writers providing developmental editing for manuscripts, critiques of book proposals, and strategic advice on how to launch and manage a successful writing career. Formerly an editor with Simon & Schuster, Marcela works with writers of all backgrounds in fiction and nonfiction, with a special interest in helping Latino writers get published. She is the publisher of Latinidad, an award-winning e-zine (www.marcelalandres.com), which was chosen as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers by Writer’s Digest magazine. Schedule:
APRIL 11, 2009
Tracy Montoya presents...
DEMYSTIFYING STORY CONFLICT. Does your novel's opening drag, your middle sag, and your ending fail to satisfy? You might need to ratchet up the conflict in your story. Conflict comes in many forms--romantic conflict, suspense conflict, internal conflict, external conflict--but what does it all mean? Master the art of inserting conflict on every page of your book, and you'll have a story that keeps your reader turning pages into the wee hours. Tracy Montoya demystifies the various types of story conflict, and shows you how to use them to create suspense and capture the attention of an editor--with our without dead bodies.
Tracy Montoya is an award-winning Harlequin Intrigue author who
edits a nonprofit magazine and newsletter in her spare time. Her
articles have appeared in the Romance Writers Report, Martha
Stewart's Body + Soul, Natural Home, Yes!, Hope, and the National
Green Pages. Find out more about her Intrigues at
www.tracymontoya.com. MAY 9, 2009 Guest speaker Roxanne St. Clair presents ... Breathing Life into a Dying Scene Call 911!! The scene is sick. The characters are lifeless, the setting is losing color, the plot points have dropped to zero, and the dialogue is flatlining across the page. The scene needs to be rescued and resuscitated, stat. In this workshop, Roxanne St. Claire will share scene-saving techniques including how and when and why to change POV, how to make a skilled, purposeful setting changes, how to gradually and effectively infuse sexual tension, how to add the unexpected (without throwing your plot into the ICU), and how to recognize a scene that needs to be taken off life support and cut. The techniques will be illustrated and explained with the use of a real “dying” scene taken from a first draft manuscript juxtaposed with the actual scene that appeared in a published novel. Recipes For Success Here’s everything you need to mix, create and cook four separate courses that can help take your career from fast-food to five star, and help you create dishes your readers will want to savor again and again. No, this is not Iron Chef. This is bestselling author Roxanne St. Claire sharing hands on instructions for creating an irresistible proposal that editors and agents will want to dig into, a "gimme book" that is easy to write and easier to read, light and tasty revisions that perfectly compliment your manuscript and, of course, the ultimate dessert: a power-packed promotional plan. Hands-on, real world, and fun! About Roxanne: Roxanne St. Claire is a bestselling, RITA-Award winning author of more than twenty novels for Pocket Books, Silhouette Desire and HQN. She currently writes a popular romantic suspense series called “The Bullet Catchers” that features a cadre of elite, fearless bodyguards and security professionals. In 2008, readers are enjoying the first “Bullet Catcher Trilogy” featuring three connected stories titled First You Run, Then You Hide and Now You Die. Next year, Bullet Catcher fans can enjoy back-to-back excitement when Hunt Her Down and Make Her Pay are released in September and October, 2009. Visit her web site at www.roxannestclaire.com. Schedule:
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