Welcome to RWA-WF
Welcome from RWA-WF »
Act Before You Leap Here’s some advice from a somewhat-newbie romance writer: There’s a lot to learn about writing [...]
Upcoming Events
Literary agent Jennifer »
Mark your diaries for March 8th, as literary agent with Spencerhill Associates, Jennifer Schober, will be [...]
RWA-WF’s first workshop »
Check out the details of RWA-WF's first workshop, coming up in March. You can find all the information [...]
New Poll Open on T-shirts »
We have a new poll up on the member-only yahoo loop. The Board wants to know how much interest there [...]
Member Announcements
Sales News Ellen Meister is excited to announce that her new novel, FAREWELL, DOROTHY PARKER, has been sold to Rachel Kahan at Putnam for hardcover [Read More]
Chapter Workshops
Workshop: Direct »
RWA-WF is thrilled to announce our inaugural workshop: Direct Your Book! Theatrical [...]
Workshop Plans For »
Upcoming Workshops Over the next year, WF will attempt to host six workshops. The [...]
Industry News
We're having our first agent guest blogger this Monday, the fabulous Jennifer Schober from Spencerhill Associates. She's written a great blog and she's taking questions. Be sure to stop off and comment. Agent Jessica Faust from Bookends posted her New and Updated [Read More]
More Industry News Headlines
RWA-WF Blog
Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops, and Contests
RWA Chapter Contests The Kiss Of Death Chapter's 2010 Daphne Du Maurier Award For Excellence In Mystery/Suspense deadline is March 15 for both published and unpublished contests. Judges for unpublished contest: category (series) - Patience Smith, Silhouette Intimate Moments; Michelle Grajkowski, Three Seas Literary Agency; historical - Alex [...]
Agent Jennifer Schober on Women’s Fiction
Good morning! Thank you for inviting me Edie— I love women’s fiction. WITH A PASSION. Ever since I was a little girl, I knew the value of reading layered, juicy stories about women and their lives. My love affair started with FOREVER by Judy Blume— (I snuck this book off my mother’s bedside table and would read it on the sly in my [...]
Shifting Mud
I couldn’t have been more than ten, and we were reading short stories in my class at school. I don’t remember the name of the story, or who wrote it. All I know is that it affected me so deeply that I’m writing about it now, forty-five years later. It was about a boy that somehow got trapped in a sewer pipe. You know the ones you can [...]
Writers’ Corner: Weekly Update of Conferences, Workshops, and Contest
Calling For Calling for Online Workshop Presenters by a special interest Chapter of the Romance Writers of America, Outreach International Romance Writers (OIRW). This chapter is seeking proposals from interested workshop presenters for their 2010 and 2011 Educational Programs. The chapter is interested in fresh and interactive online classes [...]
If your man were a plant
Have you ever wondered about the similarities between plants and men? Probably not! Most sane people don’t. But me, when I’m not writing, I spend a lot of time in my garden – maybe too much -- and my thoughts? Well, they naturally veer in that direction. Spending hours upon hours working with plants -- my garden is over 2500 sq. ft [...]