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
I found out about two fun sites for writers. The Guide to Grammar and Writing and the WordCounter. For the latter, I loaded in a first chapter and it told me which words were used most and how many times. In an interview at Novelists Inc., Random House Senior Editor [Read More]
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RWA-WF Blog
The Application
The busboy slid a stack of plates into the long grey plastic tub, careful not to bang them or rattle the big cup full of cutlery. With chapped hands and ropy arms, he hoisted the tub off the stainless steel countertop and muscled it between sous chefs intent on their red-wine jus and servers demanding crab cakes with ginger and lemon [...]
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Chapter's 2010 Daphne Du Maurier Award For Excellence In Mystery/Suspense deadline is March 15 for both published and unpublished contests. Judges for unpublished contest: category (series) - Patience Smith, Silhouette Intimate Moments; Michelle Grajkowski, Three Seas Literary Agency; historical - Alex [...]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 [...]