News and Updates - First Coast Romance Writers

August WrapUp and Coming Soon

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 […]

Editor 11 months agoAugust 24, 2023

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 […]

Editor 1 year agoJuly 8, 2023

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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 […]

Editor 1 year agoJune 1, 2023

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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 […]

Editor 1 year agoMay 7, 2023

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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 […]

Editor 1 year agoMarch 22, 2023

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NERFA and Other Great Member Benefits

Yes folks, our NERFA contest has begun .https://NERFA.FirstCoastRomanceWriters.com Submit Your 2022 Published Romance Book(s) for consideration for this year’s National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award contest. This is annual event in it’s 10th year to showcase our Romance authors – in any sub-genre – anywhere in the U.S. The volunteer judges are romance readers, romance […]

Editor 1 year agoMarch 4, 2023

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February’s Meeting on Zoom

LISA NORMAN BIO: Lisa Norman is the owner of Heart Ally Books, an independent publishing company. She also owns a website design company specializing in creating websites for authors, Deleyna’s Dynamic Designs. For over 25 years, she has worked with both indie and traditionally published writers on everything from writing through publication and marketing. She has […]

Editor 1 year agoFebruary 14, 2023

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Growing Pains and Websites Updates

Growing Pains and Websites Updates. Welcome to the First Coast Romance Writers’ new website. Yes, it looks mostly like the old one, but we’ve made some changes as well as some additions. Thus, we have been experiencing some growing pains. So we hope you will be patient. For now, we just wanted to let you […]

Editor 1 year agoFebruary 7, 2023