Edit Your Book in a Month with Eliza Knight. It begins on Monday and is only $10 for HHRW members! Sign up here today! If you just finished a NaNo manuscript, this is your chance to polish it up for submission! Due to the fact many–if not all–chapters have members who are interested in the [...]
Contest News: ~Northwest Houston RWA announces the finalists for the 2011 Lone Star Writing Competition here. ~East Valley Authors is proud to present our 2011 Annual Query Contest! To enter, please follow our easy 1-2-3 submission process here. ~New England Chapter (NECRWA) of RWA First Kiss Contest 2011 is now accepting entries!!!! Deadline: October 1st, 2011. [...]
CLASSES The Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal Chapter of RWA Presents How to Write Emotion with Laurie Saunders. In this workshop we will look at the many ways we can infuse our romance novels with emotional tension and the numerous ways to describe the emotions our characters experience so that the reader can experience the emotions [...]
Confession time: I used to hate history. Really. Couldn’t stand it. Dry, dull, a bunch of dates and places and names. So what? Who cares? It turns out I do like history, but not the dry, boring type of facts and figures. No, I like for history to come alive, to learn about the lives [...]
COFW’s Ignite the Flame Contest is Accepting Entries – Deadline for Contest Entry is May 16, 2011. Tired of entering expensive contests that require you to slave over hundreds of submission pages? Want a contest with experienced judges, wonderful feedback, and outstanding agents and editors who give feedback to the top three in each category? [...]
COVER DESIGN You think writing a synopsis is bad? Try boiling a story down to one image. A snapshot that must convey tone, period, genre– oh! And don’t forget to leave room for the tile and the author’s name! Designing covers isn’t easy. As a writer, I understand how important the right cover is to [...]
#1 Twitter can make or break our platform This past weekend I taught classes about branding and blogging at the DFW Writers Workshop Conference. One question I kept getting over and over was, “Well if I write a blog, how will anyone find it?” The answer? Twitter. Twitter is like a traffic cop who interrupts [...]
#2 Twitter helps us build our network How many times have you heard, “It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know”? We tend to look to our close network connections FIRST. I have been a Rotarian for 6 years. Rotary is a community service group made up of local business professionals. There are millions [...]
#3 Twitter provides us mentors that would otherwise be inaccessible The best way to become successful is to study the success of others. We all have writing heroes. Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall of our favorite mega-author? With Twitter, polite stalking our heroes is not only possible, but it’s [...]
#4 Twitter gives us insider information: These days it often feels as if we are thirsting for knowledge while drowning in a sea of information. Search engines give us instant gratification, but it would take a thousand lifetimes to sort through all the options clamoring for our undivided attention. How can we possibly manage it [...]