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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. We occasionally get some SimonCowell type comments.
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. We occasionally get some SimonCowell type comments.
Rules of the Floridian Idol:
* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standardfont.
* 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.
* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standardfont.
* 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.
Dialogue: It’s More than What You Say with Julia Quinn
Dialogue affects every corner of your manuscript, from characterization to voice, pacing to point-of-view. In this lively workshop, Julia Quinn will help you learn how to make your dialogue shine.
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 story from slush pile to published.
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.
*A limited number of appointments will be available for one-on-one sessions with Win- more details coming soon.
Our Dark and Twisted Family: Paranormal chat withAsa Maria Bradley and Rebecca Zanetti
Marketing 101 with Jennifer Fusco
Need to market your book but don't know where to start? How about with Marketing 101. This interactive session will teach an author how to find their target audience, draft a marketing message in four easy sentences and deliver the top 18 things an author can do to market her romance novel. This class will also discuss an author's brand and platform, and the importance of managing a budget.
The Art of Writing with Traci Hall & Christopher Hawke
Whether you are new to writing or a seasoned professional, the Art of Writing workshop will provide you with the focus necessary to skillfully craft your story. We will look at how to create your manuscript’s pivotal scenes while keeping essential storytelling concepts in mind.
Writing Deep POV with Amy Jarecki
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!
Write In with Victoria Pinder
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.
Contemporary Panel with Kathleen Pickering and Kristen Wallace
Sexy Confessions with Lexi Post & Jennifer Kacey
Join us for an interactive hour with some of your favorite erotic authors! Taboo tales you’d like to read, risqué 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. Shhh - 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. Drunken 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.
Our Workshop Presenters from A to Z
Award winning multi-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
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 from Around the World and she is a regular contributor to the writing blogs Bark and See Jane Publish. Visit her at: www.asamariabradley.com.
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
Jennifer Fusco is an author, publicist and owner of Market or Die Author Services, LLC. A three time Advertising Excellence award winner, Ms. Fusco is also the host of Romance is On TheAir with Jennifer Fusco, a weekly romance talk show produced by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. She is writer of non-fiction, contemporary romance and is represented by NicoleResciniti of The Seymour Agency. For more information about Jennifer or Market or Die, please visit www.marketordie.net
Award winning author Traci Hall writes genre fiction for both adults and teens. Believing in Happy Ever After, she pens stories guaranteed to touch the heart while transporting the reader to another time and place. She is co-founder of Community Authors, an author service company for writers who don’t want to do it all. www.tracihall.com
After writing two acclaimed novels on spirituality and reality,Christopher Hawke followed his passion for teaching, information technology and marketing to help create Community Authors a one-stop author services company. CommunityAuthors.com
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.
Jennifer Kacey is a wife, mother, and business owner living with her family in Texas. Stories that speak to her are a little bit dark and a whole lotta naughty! She sings in the shower, plays piano in her dreams, and has to have a different color of nail polish every week. The best advice she’s ever been given? Find the real you and never settle for anything less.
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. She is represented by Dawn Dowdle of Blue Ridge Literary Agency for her next novels.
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/
Kristin Wallace is a published author and 15-year veteran of the advertising industry, with a background as a copywriter. She writes inspirational romance and women’s fiction filled with “love, laughter and a lead of faith”. Kristin is the author of theCovington Falls Chronicles, the Amazon Best-Selling series set in a fictional Southern town filled with memorable, lively characters. Marry Me, Acting Up and Coming soon ImagineThat. Connect with Kristen at: www.KristinWallaceAuthor.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.