Can This Manuscript Be Saved?
Workshop with Author Susan Meier

Dates: August 1st - 31st, 2008
Cost: $10 for WRW members, $20 for nonmembers
(All registrants must provide their RWA membership #.)

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Rejected? Can’t get an agent? Can’t sell, even though your critique partners LOVE your work? Susan Meier reviews the seven most common rejection catch phrases and explains why you and even your critique partners can’t spot them, then shows how determining whether your book’s trouble is a story, scene or word problem is the first step on the road to recovery.

Following the assignments at the end of each lesson, attendees will learn how to “skim-read” their manuscripts quickly, marking specific problems with post-its. Susan also demonstrates how to use a storyboard, a list of twenty and a one-paragraph blurb to create a plan of attack for fixing your book’s trouble.

She can’t revise or rewrite your manuscript for you, but with her tricks you’ll not only see how to revise the book of your heart; you’ll also see how published authors are able to write four, five and even six books a year without breaking a sweat!

One of eleven children, Susan was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania and continues to live there with her husband, three children and two very personable cats. Susan is an avid, but terrible golfer, and a woman who desperately wants to lean to cook without having to involve the fire department. Her 2008 goals include getting involved with blogging—she but hopes no one is holding his or her breath waiting for that, losing fifteen pounds—don’t hold your breath on that one either—and figuring out the financing for an oceanfront condo in Virginia Beach. She swears she will wear Number 30 sunblock and never subject anyone to the sight of her in a bikini! (Unless asked—and paid…handsomely.)

Susan loves to teach as much as she loves to write and is a popular speaker at RWA conferences. Can This Manuscript Be Saved? and Plot Points, Taking the Train to Somewhere!  are her most requested workshops. Her article, “How To Write a Category Romance” appeared in 2003 Writer’s Digest Novel and Short Story Markets.  Susan has also given workshops on earthlycharms.com and her articles regularly appear in RWA chapter newsletters.



Courting the Muse
Workshop with Blaze Author Tawny Weber

Dates: RESCHEDULED FROM April 14th - 27th, 2008. Please stay tuned for new dates
Cost: $10 for WRW members, $20 for nonmembers
(All registrants must provide their RWA membership #.)

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The art of making your writing process work for you.  This workshop will look at a variety of tools that will help you recognize your writing process, and help you make the most of it.  We’ll discuss training the Muse, courting the Muse and comforting the Muse with everything from the mundane of setting up an empowering writing space and creating a writing habit that works to tools such as visualizations, tarot and aromatherapy. 

Harlequin Blaze author Tawny Weber is usually found dreaming up stories in her California home, surrounded by dogs, cats and kids. When she’s not writing hot, spicy stories for Harlequin Blaze, she’s testing her latest margarita recipe, shopping for the perfect pair of boots or drooling over Johnny Depp pictures (when her husband isn’t looking, of course). Tawny also spends a lot of time scrapbooking and playing in the garden. Her third Blaze, Risque Business, is out in September 2008. She blogs regularly about goals, motivation and what keeps writers going. Check out her home on the web: http://www.TawnyWeber.com.