Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol
Anonymously submit the first two pages of your manuscript (not contracted) at registration and our dynamic volunteers will read the pages aloud to the group. The Agents and Editors will offer their valuable feedback on each submission. Be aware this is not for the faint of heart.
Anonymously submit the first two pages of your manuscript (not contracted) at registration and our dynamic volunteers will read the pages aloud to the group. The Agents and Editors will offer their valuable feedback on each submission. Be aware this is not for the faint of heart.
Rules of the Floridian Idol:
* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.
* One submission per attendee
* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.
* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.
Readings are selected in the order in which they are received. We always try our best to ensure that every submission gets read, but there are no guarantees.
Pre pitch Workshop
Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW published authors.
Editor and Agent appointments
Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors.
Love is in the details with Heidi Lynn Anderson
* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.
* One submission per attendee
* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.
* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.
Readings are selected in the order in which they are received. We always try our best to ensure that every submission gets read, but there are no guarantees.
Pre pitch Workshop
Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW published authors.
Editor and Agent appointments
Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors.
Love is in the details with Heidi Lynn Anderson
Just like real life, it’s the little things that show us how someone feels. Discover how to “show” your reader your Characters feelings without being in their Point of view and without the dreaded “telling” we all desperately avoid. Build sexual tension in and out of the bedroom by making body language work for you. It’s the little things that will take your storyfrom slush pile to published.
Award winning muli-published author Heidi Lynn Anderson, spins erotic tails with lots of heart. When not writing she likes to spend her time with her family experiencing what Florida has to offer. You can contact her at www.heidilynnanderson.com
Website 101: Plan Before You Build with Win Day
Whether you’re starting from scratch, rebuilding your current website, or finally moving from one of the free blogging platforms to a website of your very own, there are things you need to know before you start. Learn the steps to getting a website that works for you – and your audience.
In her day job, Win Day is a web developer and business strategist as well as a published non-fiction author. She’s also a romance writer working on her first contemporary romance novel. Web development site:www.CreativeImplementations.com, Author site:www.WinDayWrites.com
*A limited number of appointments will be available for one-on-one sessions with Win- more details coming soon.
Åsa Maria Bradley worked as an information architect and web developer for eight years before returning to teaching. Outside the college physics classroom, she writes teaching materials, nonfiction, and paranormal romances. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including the Random House’s anthology FEMALE NOMAD AND FRIENDS: TALES OF BREAKING FREE AND BREAKING BREAD AROUND THE WORLD and she is a regular contributor to the writing blogs Bark and See Jane Publish. Visit her atwww.asamariabradley.com.
Rebecca Zanetti, USA Today Bestselling Author has worked as an art curator, Senate aide, lawyer, college professor, and a hearing examiner - only to culminate it all in stories about Alpha males and the women who claim them. She writes dark paranormals, romantic suspense, and sexy contemporary romances. Her current publishers include Grand Central, Entangled, and Kensington. Visit Rebecca at: www.RebeccaZanetti.com.
This is a hands-on workshop with exercises for each topic. The workshop is for experienced writers and is adapted from Jill Elizabeth Nelson’s Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View.Topics will include: general points of view, what deep POV is and isn’t, rules for writing deep including exercises to hone your skills and tools for writing lively and emotional prose. Bring your laptops or notebooks and pencils!
Amy Jarecki is an Amazon bestselling author of Scottish historical romance and is President of the Heritage Writer’s Guild in St. George, Utah. She has won several writing awards including the Spark Book Award and the LUW award for Best in Show. For fun, she hikes, bikes and plays a mean game of golf. Born in California, Amy holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Have a case of the been there, done that? Instead of traipsing into Cozumel, put your creative juices to work at our write in. The hardest part of writing is finding the time to sit your butt in a chair and write the novel which is what makes Nanowrimo so popular each year. Bring your computer, notepad or whatever you use and see how much you can you write in an hour or two. Feed off the creative juices of other and the vibe that a group of writers brings, not to mention the prizes we will be handing out.
Our leader for this journey: Victoria Pinder grew up in Irish Catholic Boston before moving to the Miami sun. With her full time job of teaching, in 2013 and 2014, she sold on her own sold six books to three different publishers. Now she is represented by Dawn Dowdle of Blue Ridge Literary Agency for her next novels.
Join us for an interactive hour with some of your favorite erotic authors! Taboo tales you’d like to read, risque stories too wicked even for us to write and chances to win a dozen prizes! It'll just be us...you...a pitch-black room and a flashlight. Shh - it'll be our little secret. Just whisper it. And don't worry - we won't tell...but you'll have to if you want to win!
Then it’s time to confess. Drunk sex in college, went too far with a stripper in a strip club, made it with a girl and REALLY liked it? Turn on your flashlight and hold it up in acknowledgment that you have done the naughty deed in question…if you dare.
Lexi Post spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about classical literature, but Lexi's first love was romance novels. In an effort to marry her two first loves, she started writing erotic romance inspired by the classics and found she loved it. She also loves ice cream and makes her own every weekend, wears bright colors, and you will never see her without a hat (unless she is going incognito). http://www.lexipostbooks.com/