August Wrap-Up and another great workshop will be coming soon for our members and guests. In August we had KG Fletcher presenting some great information about how music affects us all and can help us write better prose. Most authors create different playlists for each novel to help them get into the headspace for those characters and scenes they will be writing. She also discussed some of the laws we have to be aware of when wanting to use song titles and/or lyrics in our books and other types of writing. There are also specific rules about using music with your book trailers and social media posts. Of course, check with a lawyer for specific information.
Learning Workshops
Jolene MacFadden
Jolene MacFadden Author, Social Media Coordinator and Digital Marketer compares the top 5 video creation tools for authors and social media users Brief Bio: My name is Jolene and I am a published author, website design, digital marketer and a handcrafted bead and wire jewelry maker. I enjoy reading, writing blog articles, traveling, helping other … Read more
July Speaker Wrap-Up and Member News
July Speaker Wrap-Up and Member News – This month’s speaker was Pamela Taylor from Texas who gave us two workshops. One about DIY editing and the other was a great group exercise called Authenticity vs. Creativity in Contemporary and Historical Settings. The first training session went over some of the more common problem areas that writers have and should be award of to keep a look out for when they do their own editing. Giving a ‘clean’ manuscript over to a professional editor will save her/him time and you money.
The second workshop was an interactive class session where Pamela gave us a grid on various genres and we free-associated what we thought was important for writers in those storylines. Great exercise and very helpful for both newbies and those who have published a few stories already.
June Speakers after May Wrap-up
May Speaker was Great!
Suzanne Purvis is a transplanted Canadian living in the Deep South, where she traded “eh” for “y’all.” An author of long, short, and flash fiction and poetry for both children and adults, she has won several awards including those sponsored by the University of Toronto, RWA, Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable, and Women Who Write. You can find her work in print anthologies, magazines, ezines, and ebooks. Visit www.suzannepurvis.com , www.suzannepurvis.blogspot.com, Facebook, Amazon Author’s Central.
SUZANNE PURVIS WORKSHOPS:
Coming Soon Workshops Awards and Anthologies
There are lots of great things happening in the next few months. It may be coming to the end of the school year and everyone wants to go on vacation but writers and the First Coast Romance Writers group will be working hard to bring you great workshops, the winners of the NERFA contest and … Read more
March Events and Workshop WrapUp
The March Workshop was given by Caron Burmeister. It was a very invigorating discussion about building suspense and creating memorable sense of place. There was even a short writing sprint at the end that we all got to participate in and read our results. A little bit nerve-racking but very helpful feedback and you can never have too much writing practice. Below is her short biography, the description of the talks. Members have access to the handouts on our “Members Only Website”.
Caren Burmeister Bio
Linnea Sinclair
LINNEA SINCLAIR BIO Winner of the prestigious national book award, the RITA®, science fiction romance author Linnea Sinclair is a name synonymous with high-action, emotionally intense, character-driven novels. Her books have claimed spots in the Locus Top Ten and received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly. Romantic Times Book Review magazine consistently gives Sinclair’s books 4-1/2 … Read more
Pamela Taylor
Pamela Taylor Bio Like many authors, I started writing fiction just to find out if I could do it,” says award-winning author Pamela Taylor. She now has an 8-volume series to her credit with two more books under contract with her publisher. In addition to creating her own stories, she is a freelance editor with … Read more
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