tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31248516537380762352023-07-17T21:37:09.118-07:00WorkshopsFRW FUN IN THE SUN CONFERENCE FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-44485821788894424792018-01-17T11:20:00.003-08:002018-07-04T18:28:04.661-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #303030;"><span style="color: #303030;">We're very excited about the workshops we have lined up for you. There are some great ones, covering a wide array of topics for</span><b><span style="color: #303030;"> </span><span style="color: red;">M</span></b></span><b><span style="color: red;">arketing</span><span style="color: #303030;">,</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> S</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">elf-publishing</span><span style="color: #303030;">, </span><span style="color: magenta;">C</span><span style="color: magenta;">raft </span><span style="color: magenta;">and</span><span style="color: #303030;">; </span><span style="color: #674ea7;">C</span></b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>areer</b>.</span><span style="color: #303030;"> </span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Put Your Money Where Your Readers Are – Maria Connor (2 hours)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->10 Out of the Box Ways to Market Your WIP – Patricia Fischer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Beating the Facebook Algorithm – Tara September (2 hours)</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Self-Publishing: Easy As ABC – Meredith Bond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Craft:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Writing Military Characters – Geri Krowtow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Readability: The Key to Captivating Your Readers – Annie Oortman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #262626;">Building an Emotional Rollercoaster In 8 Steps – Jolene Navarro</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Your Personal GMC – Decca Price<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Working with an Assistant – Jess Michaels / Michael Peterson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Crafting Your Editor/Agent Pitch – Karen Kendall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Self-Publishing: Easy As ABC<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"> (Self-Publishing)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Presented by Meredith Bond</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Description: </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Yes, it's called self-publishing, but it isn't anything we do alone. You need a team to self-publish your work. Meredith Bond walks you through each step -- with a focus on the formatting -- to show you how to orchestrate your team and publish a beautiful, professional book. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-10 Out of the Box Ways to Market Your WIP <span style="color: red;">(Marketing)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Description: </b>Authors have enough on their plates as they create their newest book, but getting the word out about their WIPs is crucial to keeping readers and finding new ones. Marketing doesn’t come naturally for many authors. It can be excruciating to know what to do and how to get your best bang for your buck, time, and personality. This workshop will cover a variety of ways writers can get the word out either through social, visual, and/or print media as well as how to continue to momentum after the book is on the e-readers or shelves.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Chocolate and Champagne: What’s Your Love Language? <span style="color: magenta;">(Craft)</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presented by Traci E. Hall and Christopher Hawke</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Writing Military Characters <span style="color: magenta;">(Craft)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presented by Geri Krowtow</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Description: </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Heroes and heroines in the military are very popular in romance, but if you don’t get your facts straight, readers will notice and call you on it. Multi-published author and former Naval Intelligence Officer, Geri Krowtow, draws on her military background and global experiences – as well as the characters she’s created for her Harlequin Romantic Suspense series – to help you develop accurate portrayals of our men and women in uniform. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Presented by </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 60, 204);"><b>Jess Michaels and Michael Peterson</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Have an idea but your struggling with the conflict? Bring it with you. Willing to share your book baby with the group? Send your conflicted-conflict three-page synopsis to Sasha before we set sail. Sasha will select one synopsis for the class to dissect and brainstorm ways to ratchet up the stakes and conflict. Email pages to </span><o:p></o:p><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/6/null" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">sashasummersauthor@gmail.com</a></span><br />
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love stories go beyond their explorations of love and passion to reveal
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project together or getting those business bills paid aren’t always easy but
when life gets in the way it can be almost impossible. When there are tail
wagging good days you have to be as productive as possible to counteract for
the Howling at the Moon bad days and the In the Dog House horrible days. This
workshop will share how to deal with the days that come when it seems noting
will get done and what to do if you know you can’t meet that deadline. This is
a serious subject handled in a fun way by someone who knows what it is to write
while a child is ill or do revisions while sitting on the side of her hospital
bed. It is all about being productive when it seems beyond challenging to do
so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">How do you turn a lump of coal into a diamond? In this
workshop, you’ll learn how to hone your manuscript into a gem of a
read. Common beginner mistakes will be addressed, such as head
hopping, flashbacks, and misused character tags. Then over 30 tips on
self-editing will be offered to steer you on
the correct path. Tools to aid your job will also be
mentioned. It takes more than a single line edit to make your
work shine, whether for a submission or for indie publishing. Revising
your story through several drafts takes meticulous attention to
detail, intense read-throughs, and a sharp eye for
repetitions. You’ll want your book to be as perfect as possible
for readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">“Wiggle Writer” Coffee Cha</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">t with Deborah Ann Davis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Address the insidious “Sitting Sickness” by becoming a
“Wiggle Writer." Did you know the Surgeon General recommends 30 minutes of
exercise five times a week? However, even if you carve out the time to go to
the gym faithfully, if you spend the day behind the computer (and let's face
it, most of us do), your health is compromised regardless. In my workshop, I
propose a way to painlessly incorporate movement into a sedentary day that
could change the health of our industry. Be prepared to do a little wiggling
and a lot of laughing. What better way to have Fun in the Sun?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">You’re on the hot seat as you pitch your story to Jade
Lee, USA Today bestselling author of over 50 books, then work with her as she
tears your story down to the bare bones before you build it back up. Once
that’s done, walk across the room and practice it again with New York Times
bestseller Cindy Dees. By the time you walk out, you’ll be able to pitch with
ease, write with clarity, and best of all, love the story you’re writing from
beginning to end!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">How to Become a Branding Badass</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Rhonda Stapleton
and Erin McCarthy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">We've all heard the term, we all think we know what it
means for our careers, but how do we actually brand ourselves in a practical
way? In an interactive workshop walk out with a preliminary branding concept
just for you and your books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Reinventing yourself</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Marcia King-Gamble and
Sandra Madden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Be prepared to participate in this fun and exciting
workshop presented by published authors, Marcia King-Gamble and Sandra Madden.
This workshop will enable you to answer a variety of questions and make new
writing career decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Creating a new you – at least on paper. Let's discuss
solid reasons for reinvention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Does reinvention reflect a change in your career
goals? Or is your career flagging? Has your publisher dropped you
or did they go out of business? Are poor previous sales records hindering
you? Do you need a kick-start after taking a considerable hiatus from
writing? Should this different genre include a new identity for you? What
will taking a pseudonym mean?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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own unique experiences. But there's more. Much more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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love scenes to erotic tales with very explicit sex. Tanya--who has written
books with no sex, hot Blazes, and erotic novellas--will discuss a wide range,
but whether a subgenre is G-rated or X, we want to give readers swoon-worthy
chemistry between the characters. (It's been 200 years since Jane Austen
wrote <i>Pride & Prejudice</i>, and readers still sigh over
Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.) One way to make chemistry palpable is through
H.E.A.T.--Heightened Emotion, Awareness & Tension. These can be the
building blocks for memorable intimacy, whether the characters consummate their
relationship physically or not. Examples will be given from a wide variety of
novels, TV shows, and films.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Analyzing the Romance Plot</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Priscilla Oliveras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">The romance plot is far more than a simple: boy meets
girl, boy gets girl, they live Happily Ever After. Let’s face it, a plot like
that makes for a dull story, the opposite of the Keeper Shelf novel we aspire
to write. Using classic romance principles and the classic romance comedy “You’ve
Got Mail,” attendees will see how the eight essential elements can be woven
together to create a Keeper Shelf novel that keeps them clamoring for more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">The Makings of an Effective Critique Group </span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">with
Kristen Wallace, Victoria Pinder, and Rossie Cortes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Getting feedback on your work is one of the hardest
things you can do as a writer, but the right critique group can take you from
Slush pile to Greatness. Whether you are currently searching for a group, had a
past unfavorable experience, or are wondering if critique group is even for
you, this workshop will guide you along the ins and outs of what a great
critique group looks like and how to build one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Blogging For Fun and Books </span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">with Jamie
K. Schmidt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Ever wanted to receive free books? USA Today bestselling author
Jamie K. Schmidt will show you how to set yourself up as a review
blogger so you can receive brand new books -- even before they are
published -- sent directly to you by either the author or the publisher. You
can choose the genre and blog or review as little or as much as you like.
In class we'll go over Goodreads, Netgalley, and other popular places to
request review copies of books. We'll also go over setting up a WordPress
website to blog on and write some blog posts. There will be a discussion
on how to get more people to see your blog and affiliate advertising to make
you some extra cash on the side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Show Me the Funny</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Elisabeth Staab<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Humor is a funny thing. It can bring a dry story to
life, make a villain actually sort of likeable, and even turn the pain of an
emotional story or a taboo topic into something a little easier to bear. Let’s
talk about the different ways to have fun with your characters, and how you can
put more humor into your writing, no matter your genre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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love stories go beyond their explorations of love and passion to reveal
character arcs, inner transformation and universal themes. By examining both
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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.
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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
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actually help you market your book, for free, if you trigger it? It’s called
their internal algorithm and, not that dissimilar from ranking on Google, once
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that readers love and want to keep coming back to takes a lot more than just
tossing a supernatural creature into your romance novel. Learn secrets to
creating wonderful characters, dialogue, setting, and worlds that invite your
readers into your story with <i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA
Today </i>bestselling author Alyssa Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of all evil." Can she/he be redeemed to become the hero/heroine in the
next book? The answer is yes. This workshop will show how to use POV,
motivation, back story, and character development to create a sympathetic, yet
believable character through either a second chance or a retelling of the same
story from a fresh perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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project together or getting those business bills paid aren’t always easy but
when life gets in the way it can be almost impossible. When there are tail
wagging good days you have to be as productive as possible to counteract for
the Howling at the Moon bad days and the In the Dog House horrible days. This
workshop will share how to deal with the days that come when it seems noting
will get done and what to do if you know you can’t meet that deadline. This is
a serious subject handled in a fun way by someone who knows what it is to write
while a child is ill or do revisions while sitting on the side of her hospital
bed. It is all about being productive when it seems beyond challenging to do
so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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workshop, you’ll learn how to hone your manuscript into a gem of a
read. Common beginner mistakes will be addressed, such as head
hopping, flashbacks, and misused character tags. Then over 30 tips on
self-editing will be offered to steer you on
the correct path. Tools to aid your job will also be
mentioned. It takes more than a single line edit to make your
work shine, whether for a submission or for indie publishing. Revising
your story through several drafts takes meticulous attention to
detail, intense read-throughs, and a sharp eye for
repetitions. You’ll want your book to be as perfect as possible
for readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Wiggle Writer." Did you know the Surgeon General recommends 30 minutes of
exercise five times a week? However, even if you carve out the time to go to
the gym faithfully, if you spend the day behind the computer (and let's face
it, most of us do), your health is compromised regardless. In my workshop, I
propose a way to painlessly incorporate movement into a sedentary day that
could change the health of our industry. Be prepared to do a little wiggling
and a lot of laughing. What better way to have Fun in the Sun?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Practice your Pitch</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Jade Lee and Cindy Dees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">You’re on the hot seat as you pitch your story to Jade
Lee, USA Today bestselling author of over 50 books, then work with her as she
tears your story down to the bare bones before you build it back up. Once
that’s done, walk across the room and practice it again with New York Times
bestseller Cindy Dees. By the time you walk out, you’ll be able to pitch with
ease, write with clarity, and best of all, love the story you’re writing from
beginning to end!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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means for our careers, but how do we actually brand ourselves in a practical
way? In an interactive workshop walk out with a preliminary branding concept
just for you and your books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sandra Madden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Be prepared to participate in this fun and exciting
workshop presented by published authors, Marcia King-Gamble and Sandra Madden.
This workshop will enable you to answer a variety of questions and make new
writing career decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Creating a new you – at least on paper. Let's discuss
solid reasons for reinvention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Does reinvention reflect a change in your career
goals? Or is your career flagging? Has your publisher dropped you
or did they go out of business? Are poor previous sales records hindering
you? Do you need a kick-start after taking a considerable hiatus from
writing? Should this different genre include a new identity for you? What
will taking a pseudonym mean?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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own unique experiences. But there's more. Much more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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love scenes to erotic tales with very explicit sex. Tanya--who has written
books with no sex, hot Blazes, and erotic novellas--will discuss a wide range,
but whether a subgenre is G-rated or X, we want to give readers swoon-worthy
chemistry between the characters. (It's been 200 years since Jane Austen
wrote <i>Pride & Prejudice</i>, and readers still sigh over
Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.) One way to make chemistry palpable is through
H.E.A.T.--Heightened Emotion, Awareness & Tension. These can be the
building blocks for memorable intimacy, whether the characters consummate their
relationship physically or not. Examples will be given from a wide variety of
novels, TV shows, and films.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Analyzing the Romance Plot</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Priscilla Oliveras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">The romance plot is far more than a simple: boy meets
girl, boy gets girl, they live Happily Ever After. Let’s face it, a plot like
that makes for a dull story, the opposite of the Keeper Shelf novel we aspire
to write. Using classic romance principles and the classic romance comedy “You’ve
Got Mail,” attendees will see how the eight essential elements can be woven
together to create a Keeper Shelf novel that keeps them clamoring for more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">The Makings of an Effective Critique Group </span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">with
Kristen Wallace, Victoria Pinder, and Rossie Cortes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Getting feedback on your work is one of the hardest
things you can do as a writer, but the right critique group can take you from
Slush pile to Greatness. Whether you are currently searching for a group, had a
past unfavorable experience, or are wondering if critique group is even for
you, this workshop will guide you along the ins and outs of what a great
critique group looks like and how to build one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Blogging For Fun and Books </span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">with Jamie
K. Schmidt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Ever wanted to receive free books? USA Today bestselling author
Jamie K. Schmidt will show you how to set yourself up as a review
blogger so you can receive brand new books -- even before they are
published -- sent directly to you by either the author or the publisher. You
can choose the genre and blog or review as little or as much as you like.
In class we'll go over Goodreads, Netgalley, and other popular places to
request review copies of books. We'll also go over setting up a WordPress
website to blog on and write some blog posts. There will be a discussion
on how to get more people to see your blog and affiliate advertising to make
you some extra cash on the side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Show Me the Funny</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Elisabeth Staab<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Humor is a funny thing. It can bring a dry story to
life, make a villain actually sort of likeable, and even turn the pain of an
emotional story or a taboo topic into something a little easier to bear. Let’s
talk about the different ways to have fun with your characters, and how you can
put more humor into your writing, no matter your genre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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love stories go beyond their explorations of love and passion to reveal
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tossing a supernatural creature into your romance novel. Learn secrets to
creating wonderful characters, dialogue, setting, and worlds that invite your
readers into your story with <i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA
Today </i>bestselling author Alyssa Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of all evil." Can she/he be redeemed to become the hero/heroine in the
next book? The answer is yes. This workshop will show how to use POV,
motivation, back story, and character development to create a sympathetic, yet
believable character through either a second chance or a retelling of the same
story from a fresh perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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project together or getting those business bills paid aren’t always easy but
when life gets in the way it can be almost impossible. When there are tail
wagging good days you have to be as productive as possible to counteract for
the Howling at the Moon bad days and the In the Dog House horrible days. This
workshop will share how to deal with the days that come when it seems noting
will get done and what to do if you know you can’t meet that deadline. This is
a serious subject handled in a fun way by someone who knows what it is to write
while a child is ill or do revisions while sitting on the side of her hospital
bed. It is all about being productive when it seems beyond challenging to do
so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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workshop, you’ll learn how to hone your manuscript into a gem of a
read. Common beginner mistakes will be addressed, such as head
hopping, flashbacks, and misused character tags. Then over 30 tips on
self-editing will be offered to steer you on
the correct path. Tools to aid your job will also be
mentioned. It takes more than a single line edit to make your
work shine, whether for a submission or for indie publishing. Revising
your story through several drafts takes meticulous attention to
detail, intense read-throughs, and a sharp eye for
repetitions. You’ll want your book to be as perfect as possible
for readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Wiggle Writer." Did you know the Surgeon General recommends 30 minutes of
exercise five times a week? However, even if you carve out the time to go to
the gym faithfully, if you spend the day behind the computer (and let's face
it, most of us do), your health is compromised regardless. In my workshop, I
propose a way to painlessly incorporate movement into a sedentary day that
could change the health of our industry. Be prepared to do a little wiggling
and a lot of laughing. What better way to have Fun in the Sun?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">You’re on the hot seat as you pitch your story to Jade
Lee, USA Today bestselling author of over 50 books, then work with her as she
tears your story down to the bare bones before you build it back up. Once
that’s done, walk across the room and practice it again with New York Times
bestseller Cindy Dees. By the time you walk out, you’ll be able to pitch with
ease, write with clarity, and best of all, love the story you’re writing from
beginning to end!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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means for our careers, but how do we actually brand ourselves in a practical
way? In an interactive workshop walk out with a preliminary branding concept
just for you and your books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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workshop presented by published authors, Marcia King-Gamble and Sandra Madden.
This workshop will enable you to answer a variety of questions and make new
writing career decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Creating a new you – at least on paper. Let's discuss
solid reasons for reinvention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Does reinvention reflect a change in your career
goals? Or is your career flagging? Has your publisher dropped you
or did they go out of business? Are poor previous sales records hindering
you? Do you need a kick-start after taking a considerable hiatus from
writing? Should this different genre include a new identity for you? What
will taking a pseudonym mean?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Sandra and Marcia will offer pros and cons from their
own unique experiences. But there's more. Much more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #443f3f; font-family: raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">
<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Bringing the H.E.A.T.</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Tanya Michaels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Romance novels run the gamut of sweet stories without
love scenes to erotic tales with very explicit sex. Tanya--who has written
books with no sex, hot Blazes, and erotic novellas--will discuss a wide range,
but whether a subgenre is G-rated or X, we want to give readers swoon-worthy
chemistry between the characters. (It's been 200 years since Jane Austen
wrote <i>Pride & Prejudice</i>, and readers still sigh over
Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.) One way to make chemistry palpable is through
H.E.A.T.--Heightened Emotion, Awareness & Tension. These can be the
building blocks for memorable intimacy, whether the characters consummate their
relationship physically or not. Examples will be given from a wide variety of
novels, TV shows, and films.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #443f3f; font-family: raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">
<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Analyzing the Romance Plot</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Priscilla Oliveras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">The romance plot is far more than a simple: boy meets
girl, boy gets girl, they live Happily Ever After. Let’s face it, a plot like
that makes for a dull story, the opposite of the Keeper Shelf novel we aspire
to write. Using classic romance principles and the classic romance comedy “You’ve
Got Mail,” attendees will see how the eight essential elements can be woven
together to create a Keeper Shelf novel that keeps them clamoring for more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">The Makings of an Effective Critique Group </span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">with
Kristen Wallace, Victoria Pinder, and Rossie Cortes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Getting feedback on your work is one of the hardest
things you can do as a writer, but the right critique group can take you from
Slush pile to Greatness. Whether you are currently searching for a group, had a
past unfavorable experience, or are wondering if critique group is even for
you, this workshop will guide you along the ins and outs of what a great
critique group looks like and how to build one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Blogging For Fun and Books </span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">with Jamie
K. Schmidt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Ever wanted to receive free books? USA Today bestselling author
Jamie K. Schmidt will show you how to set yourself up as a review
blogger so you can receive brand new books -- even before they are
published -- sent directly to you by either the author or the publisher. You
can choose the genre and blog or review as little or as much as you like.
In class we'll go over Goodreads, Netgalley, and other popular places to
request review copies of books. We'll also go over setting up a WordPress
website to blog on and write some blog posts. There will be a discussion
on how to get more people to see your blog and affiliate advertising to make
you some extra cash on the side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Show Me the Funny</span><span style="color: #343030; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> with Elisabeth Staab<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #242424; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Humor is a funny thing. It can bring a dry story to
life, make a villain actually sort of likeable, and even turn the pain of an
emotional story or a taboo topic into something a little easier to bear. Let’s
talk about the different ways to have fun with your characters, and how you can
put more humor into your writing, no matter your genre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-64521253439013120412016-01-19T13:33:00.003-08:002016-01-19T13:33:56.127-08:00<strong><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 20pt;">We are now accepting workshop proposals for the 2017 Fun in the Sun Conference. Please email your proposal to FRWConferenceWorkshops@gmail.com.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt;">Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol</span></i></strong><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />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 Simon Cowell type comments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">Have a case of the been there, done that? Instead of traipsing into Cozumel, put your creative juices to work at our write in. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt;">Editor and Agent appointments</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. </span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt;">Pre-pitch Workshop with </span></i></b><st1:stockticker><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt;">FRW</span></i></b></st1:stockticker><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14pt;"> Writers</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">FRW</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;"> published authors.</span><br />
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-37285149236899984042015-03-12T08:15:00.001-07:002015-12-04T11:07:14.142-08:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">Workshop list coming soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you are interested in presenting a workshop at the 2017 conference, send your proposal to FRWFunintheSun@yahoo.com</span>FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-60342995495481658132014-11-21T07:12:00.000-08:002014-11-21T07:31:21.299-08:00<strong><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 20pt;">Check
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><em><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: orange; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Agent/Author Relations: How
to approach an agent in the wild, and what to do once you've caught one with </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">with Nalini </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Akolekar (</span></b><b>Spencerhill Associates ltd.)</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria;"> &
Terri Osburn</span></b></span></em></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Literary Agent
Nalini Akolekar and her client Terri Osburn discuss everything from how they
came to work together, to the query process, agent/author etiquette, what an
agent can and should do for you, and reveal the shocking truth that agents are
ordinary people just like you. Join the discussion and come prepared with all
the burning questions you've always wanted to ask but never gotten the chance.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Foundations
of Fiction: All the basic elements of a successful novel with Peter Senftleben
(Kensington Books)</span></i></b></div>
<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Some
of the most common reasons for rejection are some of the most basic mistakes,
like tense, point of view, conflict, characters, and dialogue. In this
workshop, I'll go over all of the fundamentals of writing a story, focusing on
the elements I often see misused, botched, or ignored in submissions.
I'll touch briefly on the basics that every writer needs to know and
remain aware of as they write their novel, and give tips on how to avoid
getting caught in these traps. A question and answer session will provide
writers in the audience with the opportunity to get my advice on problems they
frequently find themselves encountering.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Career
Arc with Deb Werksman (Sourcebooks<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>)</span></i></b></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">What
does Career Arc mean? How do you build a brand? Why do you need a career arc
anyway? An editor from a house that specializes in career strategy will address
your specific questions about strategizing your own particular career.</span><br />
<br />
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></i></strong></div>
<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol</span></i></strong><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><br />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 Simon Cowell type comments.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Rules of the
Floridian Idol:</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.<br />
* One submission per attendee<br />
* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.<br />
* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board
with you.<br />
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. <br />
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"><br />
</span></i><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Write In
with </span></i></b><st1:stockticker><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">FRW</span></i></b></st1:stockticker><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"> Writers</span></i></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Have a case of the been there, done that? Instead of traipsing into
Cozumel, put your creative juices to work at our write in. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
<br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Editor and Agent appointments</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with
our Agents & Editors. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Dialogue: It’s More
than What You Say with Julia Quinn</span></i></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Love is in the
details with Heidi Lynn Anderson</span></i></b></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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. </span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Website 101: Plan
Before You Build with Win Day</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">*A
limited number of appointments will be available for one-on-one sessions with
Win- more details coming soon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Our Dark
and Twisted Family: Paranormal chat with Asa Maria Bradley, </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Heather Graham, Bonnie Vanak and
Rebecca<span style="color: black;"> Zanetti</span></span></i></b><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></em></strong><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Marketing 101 with
Jennifer Fusco</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">The Art of Writing
with Traci Hall & Christopher Hawke</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></div>
<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Writing Deep POV
with Amy Jarecki</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria;">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<i> Rivet Your
Readers with Deep Point of View.</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">
Topics will include: g</span>eneral 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!</span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Can You Make A
Living Self-Publishing? with Liz Schulte, Melissa Lummis, and C.G. Powell </span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">We will talk about
the various stages of self-publishing success. We will talk about real sales
numbers and personal self-publishing experiences, as well as going over the
marketing tricks and trends they have had the most success using and the
pitfalls many new self-published authors fall into. Discussion will include
forming author groups and how to successfully build a platform for cross
promotion.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">What We Love about Contemporary
with Kathleen Pickering, Erin McCarthy and Kristen Wallace</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Join us to discuss
the things we love about contemporary and the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt;">Uncliché Your
Romance with MM Pollard, editor, Black Velvet Seductions</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Your first draft is
probably littered with clichés. Your hero has a heart of gold. Your heroine has
the patience of Job with the hero. He saves her in the nick of time from the
terrible, horrible, evil serial killer villain. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Clichés are more
than just dead-beat words and phrases that have lost their original meaning and
their cleverness in making comparisons. Genre fiction has clichés in characters
and plots that most readers expect and some complain about. How can a writer
please all readers?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">This workshop isn’t
about shredding that draft and starting over. I’ll give you lots of ways to
create fresh characters and plots from those clichés often found in genre
fiction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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...<i>but you'll have to if you want to win</i>!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Titles, Customs, and Manners of the Regency with Ella Quinn</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Ever wonder if your titles were correct, or whether or not your
lady should curtsey rather than inclining her head as well as a multitude of
other small but important details? Then this class is for you. Not only will we
practice the correct form of address and discuss what every lady and gentleman
would know, you’ll also learn what types of parties and other entertainments
they gave, and what the rules on waltzing really were, as well as what and when
to serve food and what types of liquid libations were available, it wasn’t
punch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Time permitting we’ll also discuss the duties of various servants
including the all important lady’s maid and valet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Award winning
multi-published author <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heidi Lynn
Anderson</b>, 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 </span><a href="http://www.heidilynnanderson.com/"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.heidilynnanderson.com</span></span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Asa Maria Bradley</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> is a 2014 Golden Heart Finalist. She writes urban fantasy
and paranormal romance featuring Vikings and Valkyries sworn to save humanity
from Ragnarök—the god’s and goddesses’ final battle and the end of the world.
Originally from Sweden, she grew up surrounded by archeology and history
steeped in Norse mythology. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications
including the Random House anthology <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Female
Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread from Around the
World </i>and she is a regular contributor to the writing blogs Bark and See
Jane Publish. Visit her at: </span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.asamariabradley.com%2f" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.asamariabradley.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">In her day job, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Win Day</b> 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:</span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.creativeimplementations.com%2f" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">, Author site: </span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.windaywrites.com%2f" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Jennifer Fusco</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> 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 The Air 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 Nicole Resciniti of The
Seymour Agency. For more information about Jennifer or Market or Die, please
visit </span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=yct_ZZrJiE-2xE9-zBoc7pqdN8PzONFIsRhHSRAEQfnI_GpJsc5AgraE9Arf6ZuXAzTQg-L-Doc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.marketordie.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.marketordie.net</span></span></a><br />
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writer most special to </span></b><st1:stockticker><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">FRW</span></b></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">, is New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heather Graham</b>.
Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred
novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire
fiction, time travel, occult and Christmas family fare. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;">She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty
languages. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton,
Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times and more. Heather has
also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers.
Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love
in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an
incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she
loves so very much for a living. The Unseen, The Unholy, The Unspoken and the
Uninvited are available now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let the
Dead Sleep will be released in March, 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Night is Watching,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Night
is Alive and The Night is Forever will be released in June, August and October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Award winning author
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Traci Hall</b> 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.tracihall.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">www.tracihall.com</span></a><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><u> </u></span><br />
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and reality, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christopher Hawke</b>
followed his passion for teaching, information technology and marketing to help
create Community Authors a one-stop author services company.
CommunityAuthors.com</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Amy Jarecki</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> 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.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Jennifer Kacey </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Melissa Lummis</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> is a self-published
author of paranormal, erotic romance, and urban fantasy. She currently has
three novels and two short stories published, with an upcoming novella series
scheduled to release the spring of 2014. While becoming a published writer was
always in the works, it was the self-publishing phenomena that inspired her to
make full-time writing a reality. Her goal is to support her family financially
as a full-time writer and take them on adventures, while inspiring other
writers to pursue their dreams, too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Although born in the Ohio Valley, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Terri Osburn</span></b><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> found her true home between the covers of her favorite books.
Classics like <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> and <i>Little Women</i> filled her
childhood, and the genre of romance beckoned during her teen years. In 2007,
she put pen to paper to write her own. Just five years later, she was named a
2012 finalist for the Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® Award, and her
debut novel released a year later. You can learn more about this international
bestselling author of the Anchor Island contemporary romance series by visiting
her website at </span><a href="http://www.terriosburn.com/"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">www.terriosburn.com</span></span></a><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Kathleen Pickering</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> is an award-winning author who believes stories
teach life lessons. A member of Florida Romance Writers, Romance Writers of
America, and Mystery Writers of America, Kathleen draws plots and characters
from people around her. Kathleen also travels to research her work. So beware.
If she meets you, you may wind up in one of her novels! Kathleen’s passion for
writing is only matched by her joy in conducting writing and self-awareness
workshops to bring you back to what matters in life: the Power of Love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kathleenpickering.com. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Victoria Pinder</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> 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. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">As an editor for Black Velvet Seductions, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">MM Pollard </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">reads many entertaining and thought-provoking
stories, some littered with common mistakes in the fundamental skills of
writing. With fifteen years of experience teaching English serving as a
resource of knowledge and a life-time love of teaching and of language. Her
goal is to teach writers what they need to know about the writing craft through
her fun workshops. She has presented workshops for many RWA chapters, Savvy
Authors, Writers Online Classes, and in her own virtual classroom. MM is sure
she can help you, too, master the fundamentals of English.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Lexi Post</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> 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). </span><a href="http://www.lexipostbooks.com/"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.lexipostbooks.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Christine Powell Gomez (AKA- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CG
Powell</b>) started writing in 2011, she decided that indie pubbing was the
direction for her. Since then she has never looked back, Christine has written
books and short stories in the paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and
erotica genres all with a twist of romance. Christine has taken her vast
knowledge and insatiable appetite for learning and applied it to the stories
she writes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Christine opened The Book Swag Shop, which caters to indie authors
looking for unique swag items for their fans. This venture has helped her to
understand branding, time management (still working on this one), and business
management.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ella Quinn</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> lived all over the United States, the
Pacific, Canada, England and Europe before finally discovering the Caribbean.
She lives in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands with her wonderful husband, three bossy
cats and a loveable great dane. Ella loves when friends connect with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.ellaquinnauthor.com/"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">www.ellaquinnauthor.com</span></span></a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Julia Quinn,</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> see Keynote Speaker</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Liz Schulte</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> is a self-published
author in mystery and paranormal romance with ten novels, one short story, one
box set, and has been in three anthologies. Though success in publishing didn’t
happen overnight, like she envisioned it would, the journey has been worth the
trials along the way. Liz became a self-supported full time author in 2013 and
wouldn’t trade her hard begotten knowledge or the wonderful friends she has
made along the way for anything. She has taken numerous forensic and writing
classes and attended several symposiums on writing. She believes that with any
craft, you should constantly work on honing your skills and improving your
output. </span><a href="http://www.lizschulte.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="color: blue;">www.LizSchulte.com</span></span></a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Bonnie Vanak</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> is the New York Times bestselling author of paranormal werewolf
romances. A former newspaper reporter who became a writer for a major
international charity, she travels to destitute countries to write about issues
affecting the poor. Her books take readers from the mysterious, dark alleys of
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“love, laughter and a lead of faith”. Kristin is the author of the <b>Covington
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<strong><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol</span></i></strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />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 Simon Cowell type comments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rules of the Floridian Idol:</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.<br />* One submission per attendee<br />* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.<br />* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.<br />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. <br /><i><br /></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pre pitch Workshop</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW published authors.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dialogue: It’s More than What You Say with Julia Quinn<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Our Dark and Twisted Family: Paranormal chat with Asa Maria Bradley, </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Heather Graham</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">, </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bonnie Vanak</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and Rebecca Zanetti</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">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<i> Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View.</i> 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!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">We will talk about the various stages of self-publishing success. We will talk about real sales numbers and personal self-publishing experiences, as well as going over the marketing tricks and trends they have had the most success using and the pitfalls many new self-published authors fall into. Discussion will include forming author groups and how to successfully build a platform for cross promotion.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Write In with Victoria Pinder</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have a case of the been there, done that? Instead of traipsing into Cozumel, put your creative juices to work at our write in. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Uncliché Your Romance </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;">with MM Pollard, editor, Black Velvet Seductions<span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your first draft is probably littered with clichés. Your hero has a heart of gold. Your heroine has the patience of Job with the hero. He saves her in the nick of time from the terrible, horrible, evil serial killer villain. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clichés are more than just dead-beat words and phrases that have lost their original meaning and their cleverness in making comparisons. Genre fiction has clichés in characters and plots that most readers expect and some complain about. How can a writer please all readers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This workshop isn’t about shredding that draft and starting over. I’ll give you lots of ways to create fresh characters and plots from those clichés often found in genre fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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...<i>but you'll have to if you want to win</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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 th<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235" name="_GoBack"></a>e naughty deed in question…if you dare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ever wonder if your titles were correct, or whether or not your lady should curtsey rather than inclining her head as well as a multitude of other small but important details? Then this class is for you. Not only will we practice the correct form of address and discuss what every lady and gentleman would know, you’ll also learn what types of parties and other entertainments they gave, and what the rules on waltzing really were, as well as what and when to serve food and what types of liquid libations were available, it wasn’t punch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Award winning multi-published author <b>Heidi Lynn Anderson</b>, 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 </span><a href="http://www.heidilynnanderson.com/"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">www.heidilynnanderson.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Asa Maria Bradley</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is a 2014 Golden Heart Finalist. She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance featuring Vikings and Valkyries sworn to save humanity from Ragnarök—the god’s and goddesses’ final battle and the end of the world. Originally from Sweden, she grew up surrounded by archeology and history steeped in Norse mythology. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including the Random House anthology </span><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread from Around the World </span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">and she is a regular contributor to the writing blogs Bark and See Jane Publish. Visit her at: </span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.asamariabradley.com%2f" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">www.asamariabradley.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In her day job, <b>Win Day</b> 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:</span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.creativeimplementations.com%2f" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, Author site: </span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.windaywrites.com%2f" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jennifer Fusco</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 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 The Air 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 Nicole Resciniti of The Seymour Agency. For more information about Jennifer or Market or Die, please visit </span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=yct_ZZrJiE-2xE9-zBoc7pqdN8PzONFIsRhHSRAEQfnI_GpJsc5AgraE9Arf6ZuXAzTQg-L-Doc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.marketordie.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">www.marketordie.net</span></a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">One of FRW’s founding mothers, and therefore a writer most special to FRW</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">, is New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, <b><span style="color: #e36c0a;">Heather Graham</span></b>. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult and Christmas family fare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times and more. Heather has also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living. The Unseen, The Unholy, The Unspoken and the Uninvited are available now. Let the Dead Sleep will be released in March, 2013. The Night is Watching, The Night is Alive and The Night is Forever will be released in June, August and October</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Award winning author <b>Traci Hall</b> 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. </span><a href="http://www.tracihall.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">www.tracihall.com</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Amy Jarecki</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jennifer Kacey </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Victoria Pinder</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">As an editor for Black Velvet Seductions, </span><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">MM Pollard </span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">reads many entertaining and thought-provoking stories, some littered with common mistakes in the fundamental skills of writing. With fifteen years of experience teaching English serving as a resource of knowledge and a life-time love of teaching and of language. Her goal is to teach writers what they need to know about the writing craft through her fun workshops. She has presented workshops for many RWA chapters, Savvy Authors, Writers Online Classes, and in her own virtual classroom. MM is sure she can help you, too, master the fundamentals of English.</span><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lexi Post</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 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). </span><a href="http://www.lexipostbooks.com/"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.lexipostbooks.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christine Powell Gomez (AKA- <b><span style="color: #e36c0a;">CG Powell</span></b>) started writing in 2011, she decided that indie pubbing was the direction for her. Since then she has never looked back, Christine has written books and short stories in the paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres all with a twist of romance. Christine has taken her vast knowledge and insatiable appetite for learning and applied it to the stories she writes. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Christine opened The Book Swag Shop, which caters to indie authors looking for unique swag items for their fans. This venture has helped her to understand branding, time management (still working on this one), and business management.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Julia Quinn,</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> see Keynote Speaker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and <i>USA Today</i> Bestselling author, <b>Rebecca Zanetti</b> writes dark paranormals, romantic suspense, and contemporary romances for three New York publishers. She’s sold from the slush pile, from auction, from pre-empt, and most recently from a short conversation with an editor that turned into a five book deal. She believes strongly in luck, karma, and working her butt off…and she thinks one of the best things about being an author, unlike the lawyer she used to be, is that she can let the crazy out a little bit. Currently, she is writing the bestselling Dark Protector series from Kensington, with the tenth book, <i>Marked</i>, being released in December 2014; the Sin Brothers series from Grand Central, with <i>Blind Faith</i>, book three, released in May 2014, and finally, the Maverick Montana series from Entangled, with Rising Assets, the third book, hitting the New York Times and the USA Today Bestseller lists in April 2014. Find Rebecca at </span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=4UMGRE-G7U6HaRswJlKsywKs0Zf2O9FI0OGSF4yyeUzjD89pWWmU8Oe0qxBQGoeMZCF28ArSNLw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fRebeccaZanetti.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">RebeccaZanetti.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><i>Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol</i></strong><br />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 Simon Cowell type comments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Rules of the Floridian Idol:</i></b><br />* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.<br />* One submission per attendee<br />* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.<br />* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.<br />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. <br /><i><br /></i><b><i>Pre pitch Workshop</i></b><br />Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW published authors.<br /><br /><b><i>Editor and Agent appointments</i></b><br />Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. <br /><br /><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dialogue: It’s More than What You Say with Julia Quinn<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><b><i>Love is in the details with Heidi Lynn Anderson</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Website 101: Plan Before You Build with Win Day<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Our Dark and Twisted Family: Paranormal chat with Asa Maria Bradley,</i></b><b><i>Heather Graham</i></b><b><i>, </i></b><b><i>Bonnie Vanak</i></b><b><i> and Rebecca Zanetti</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We will talk about the various stages of self-publishing success. We will talk about real sales numbers and personal self-publishing experiences, as well as going over the marketing tricks and trends they have had the most success using and the pitfalls many new self-published authors fall into. Discussion will include forming author groups and how to successfully build a platform for cross promotion.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Uncliché Your Romance </i></b><b><i>with MM Pollard, editor, Black Velvet Seductions<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your first draft is probably littered with clichés. Your hero has a heart of gold. Your heroine has the patience of Job with the hero. He saves her in the nick of time from the terrible, horrible, evil serial killer villain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Clichés are more than just dead-beat words and phrases that have lost their original meaning and their cleverness in making comparisons. Genre fiction has clichés in characters and plots that most readers expect and some complain about. How can a writer please all readers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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...<i>but you'll have to if you want to win</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 th<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>e naughty deed in question…if you dare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Titles, Customs, and Manners of the Regency </i></b><b><i>with Ella Quinn<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ever wonder if your titles were correct, or whether or not your lady should curtsey rather than inclining her head as well as a multitude of other small but important details? Then this class is for you. Not only will we practice the correct form of address and discuss what every lady and gentleman would know, you’ll also learn what types of parties and other entertainments they gave, and what the rules on waltzing really were, as well as what and when to serve food and what types of liquid libations were available, it wasn’t punch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Award winning multi-published author <b>Heidi Lynn Anderson</b>, 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 <a href="http://www.heidilynnanderson.com/">www.heidilynnanderson.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Asa Maria Bradley</b> is a 2014 Golden Heart Finalist. She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance featuring Vikings and Valkyries sworn to save humanity from Ragnarök—the god’s and goddesses’ final battle and the end of the world. Originally from Sweden, she grew up surrounded by archeology and history steeped in Norse mythology. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including the Random House anthology <i>Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread from Around the World </i>and she is a regular contributor to the writing blogs Bark and See Jane Publish. Visit her at:<a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.asamariabradley.com%2f" target="_blank">www.asamariabradley.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-CA">In her day job, <b>Win Day</b> 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:</span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.creativeimplementations.com%2f" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><span lang="EN-CA">, Author site:</span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=BipU4eVToUmBZ5uRvhPLiKAdzwW-JtFIGN4NhkhJ7RoQ-gnHO2-gRAUFsQBt1SekK0XvzpZoRYI.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.windaywrites.com%2f" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Jennifer Fusco</b> 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 The Air 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 Nicole Resciniti of The Seymour Agency. For more information about Jennifer or Market or Die, please visit <a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=yct_ZZrJiE-2xE9-zBoc7pqdN8PzONFIsRhHSRAEQfnI_GpJsc5AgraE9Arf6ZuXAzTQg-L-Doc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.marketordie.net" target="_blank">www.marketordie.net</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>One of FRW’s founding mothers, and therefore a writer most special to FRW</b>, is New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, <b>Heather Graham</b>. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult and Christmas family fare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times and more. Heather has also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living. The Unseen, The Unholy, The Unspoken and the Uninvited are available now. Let the Dead Sleep will be released in March, 2013. The Night is Watching, The Night is Alive and The Night is Forever will be released in June, August and October.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Award winning author <b>Traci Hall</b> 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. <a href="http://www.tracihall.com/">www.tracihall.com</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Amy Jarecki</b> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Jennifer Kacey </b>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Kathleen Pickering</b> is an award-winning author who believes stories teach life lessons. A member of Florida Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America, and Mystery Writers of America, Kathleen draws plots and characters from people around her. Kathleen also travels to research her work. So beware. If she meets you, you may wind up in one of her novels! Kathleen’s passion for writing is only matched by her joy in conducting writing and self-awareness workshops to bring you back to what matters in life: the Power of Love. <a href="http://kathleenpickering.com/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">kathleenpickering.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Victoria Pinder</b> 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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As an editor for Black Velvet Seductions, <b>MM Pollard </b>reads many entertaining and thought-provoking stories, some littered with common mistakes in the fundamental skills of writing. With fifteen years of experience teaching English serving as a resource of knowledge and a life-time love of teaching and of language. Her goal is to teach writers what they need to know about the writing craft through her fun workshops. She has presented workshops for many RWA chapters, Savvy Authors, Writers Online Classes, and in her own virtual classroom. MM is sure she can help you, too, master the fundamentals of English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Lexi Post</b> 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). <a href="http://www.lexipostbooks.com/">http://www.lexipostbooks.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Christine Powell Gomez (AKA- <b>CG Powell</b>) started writing in 2011, she decided that indie pubbing was the direction for her. Since then she has never looked back, Christine has written books and short stories in the paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres all with a twist of romance. Christine has taken her vast knowledge and insatiable appetite for learning and applied it to the stories she writes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Christine opened The Book Swag Shop, which caters to indie authors looking for unique swag items for their fans. This venture has helped her to understand branding, time management (still working on this one), and business management.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Ella Quinn</b> lived all over the United States, the Pacific, Canada, England and Europe before finally discovering the Caribbean. She lives in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands with her wonderful husband, three bossy cats and a loveable great dane. Ella loves when friends connect with her. <a href="http://www.ellaquinnauthor.com/">www.ellaquinnauthor.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Liz Schulte</b> is a self-published author in mystery and paranormal romance with ten novels, one short story, one box set, and has been in three anthologies. Though success in publishing didn’t happen overnight, like she envisioned it would, the journey has been worth the trials along the way. Liz became a self-supported full time author in 2013 and wouldn’t trade her hard begotten knowledge or the wonderful friends she has made along the way for anything. She has taken numerous forensic and writing classes and attended several symposiums on writing. She believes that with any craft, you should constantly work on honing your skills and improving your output. <a href="http://www.lizschulte.com/" target="_blank">www.LizSchulte.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Kristin Wallace</b> 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 the <b>Covington Falls Chronicles</b>, the Amazon Best-Selling series set in a fictional Southern town filled with memorable, lively characters. <i>Marry Me, Acting Up</i> and Coming soon <i>Imagine That</i>. Connect with Kristen at:<a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=yct_ZZrJiE-2xE9-zBoc7pqdN8PzONFIsRhHSRAEQfnI_GpJsc5AgraE9Arf6ZuXAzTQg-L-Doc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.KristinWallaceAuthor.com" target="_blank">www.KristinWallaceAuthor.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA Today</i> Bestselling author, <b>Rebecca Zanetti</b> writes dark paranormals, romantic suspense, and contemporary romances for three New York publishers. She’s sold from the slush pile, from auction, from pre-empt, and most recently from a short conversation with an editor that turned into a five book deal. She believes strongly in luck, karma, and working her butt off…and she thinks one of the best things about being an author, unlike the lawyer she used to be, is that she can let the crazy out a little bit. Currently, she is writing the bestselling Dark Protector series from Kensington, with the tenth book, <i>Marked</i>, being released in December 2014; the Sin Brothers series from Grand Central, with <i>Blind Faith</i>, book three, released in May 2014, and finally, the Maverick Montana series from Entangled, with Rising Assets, the third book, hitting the New York Times and the USA Today Bestseller lists in April 2014. Find Rebecca at<a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=4UMGRE-G7U6HaRswJlKsywKs0Zf2O9FI0OGSF4yyeUzjD89pWWmU8Oe0qxBQGoeMZCF28ArSNLw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fRebeccaZanetti.com" target="_blank">RebeccaZanetti.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s14" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="bumpedFont15">Jennifer Fusco</span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15"> 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 </span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15">The</span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15">Air 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 Nicole</span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15">Resciniti</span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15"> of The Seymour Agency. For more information about Jennifer or Market or Die, please visit </span></span><a href="https://srv-fl-hub2.bmusanet.brandsmartusa.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=yct_ZZrJiE-2xE9-zBoc7pqdN8PzONFIsRhHSRAEQfnI_GpJsc5AgraE9Arf6ZuXAzTQg-L-Doc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.marketordie.net"><span class="s15"><span class="bumpedFont15">www.marketordie.net</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s14" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="bumpedFont15">Amy </span></span><span class="s14" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="bumpedFont15">Jarecki</span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15"> 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 </span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15">Heriot</span></span><span class="s6"><span class="bumpedFont15">-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.</span></span></span></div>
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-77818274748508820792014-04-21T13:51:00.001-07:002014-04-22T09:17:16.811-07:00<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b>Here is a sampling of our workshops, more coming soon!</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><i>Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol</i></strong><br />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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rules of the Floridian Idol:<br />* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.<br />* One submission per attendee<br />* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.<br />* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.<br />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. <br /><i><br /></i><b><i>Pre pitch Workshop</i></b><br />Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> published authors.<br /><br /><b><i>Editor and Agent appointments</i></b><br />Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. <br /><br /><b><i>Love is in the details with Heidi Lynn Anderson</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Award winning muli<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a>-published author <b>Heidi Lynn Anderson</b>, 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 <a href="http://www.heidilynnanderson.com/">www.heidilynnanderson.com</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-CA">In her day job, <b>Win Day</b> 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 </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span lang="EN-CA">site:</span><a href="http://www.creativeimplementations.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></span><span lang="EN-CA">, Author site:</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.windaywrites.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Our Dark and Twisted Family: Paranormal chat with Asa<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> Maria Bradley and Rebecca Zanetti</i></b></span></div>
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<b><b>Åsa</b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> Maria Bradley</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 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 at</span><a href="http://www.asamariabradley.com/" target="_blank">www.asamariabradley.com</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></div>
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<b>Rebecca Zanetti<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, 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: </span><a href="http://www.rebeccazanetti.com/" target="_blank">www.RebeccaZanetti.com</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></div>
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<b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Writing Deep POV<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> with Amy Jarecki<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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<i> Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View.</i>Topics will include: general points of view, what deep POV<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Amy Jarecki<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></b> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a>-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Write in with Victoria Pinder<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></i></b><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our leader for this journey: <b>Victoria Pinder<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></b> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> of Blue Ridge Literary Agency for her next novels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sexy Confessions with Lexi<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> Post & Jennifer Kacey<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Join us for an interactive hour with some of your favorite erotic authors! Taboo tales you’d like to read, risque<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> - it'll be our little secret. Just whisper it. And don't worry - we won't tell...<i>but you'll have to if you want to win</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 th<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235" name="_GoBack"></a>e naughty deed in question…if you dare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><b>Lexi</b> Post</b> spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about classical literature, but Lexi's<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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). <a href="http://www.lexipostbooks.com/">http://www.lexipostbooks.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We occasionally get some Simon Cowell<a href=""></a> type comments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rules of the Floridian Idol:<br />* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.<br />* One submission per attendee<br />* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.<br />* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.<br />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. <br /><i><br /></i><b><i>Pre pitch Workshop</i></b><br />Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW<a href=""></a> published authors.<br /><br /><b><i>Editor and Agent appointments</i></b><br />Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. <br /><br /><b><i>Love is in the details with Heidi Lynn Anderson</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Award winning muli<a href=""></a>-published author <b>Heidi Lynn Anderson</b>, 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 <a href="http://www.heidilynnanderson.com/">www.heidilynnanderson.com</a><a href=""></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Website 101: Plan Before You Build with Win Day<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-CA">In her day job, <b>Win Day</b> 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 </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span lang="EN-CA">site:</span><a href="http://www.creativeimplementations.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><a href=""></a></span><span lang="EN-CA">, Author site:</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.windaywrites.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><a href=""></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*A limited number of appointments will be available for one-on-one sessions with Win- more details coming soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Our Dark and Twisted Family: Paranormal chat with Asa<a href=""></a> Maria Bradley and Rebecca Zanetti<a href=""></a></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(needs to be shorter) <b><b>Åsa</b><a href=""></a> Maria Bradley</b> 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 at<a href="http://www.asamariabradley.com/" target="_blank">www.asamariabradley.com</a><a href=""></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <b>Rebecca Zanetti<a href=""></a></b>, 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: <a href="http://www.rebeccazanetti.com/" target="_blank">www.RebeccaZanetti.com</a><a href=""></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Writing Deep POV<a href=""></a> with Amy Jarecki<a href=""></a><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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<i> Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View.</i>Topics will include: general points of view, what deep POV<a href=""></a> 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!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Amy Jarecki<a href=""></a></b> 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<a href=""></a> 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<a href=""></a>-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Write in with Victoria Pinder<a href=""></a></i></b><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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<a href=""></a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our leader for this journey: <b>Victoria Pinder<a href=""></a></b> 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<a href=""></a> of Blue Ridge Literary Agency for her next novels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sexy Confessions with Lexi<a href=""></a> Post & Jennifer Kacey<a href=""></a><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Join us for an interactive hour with some of your favorite erotic authors! Taboo tales you’d like to read, risque<a href=""></a> 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<a href=""></a> - it'll be our little secret. Just whisper it. And don't worry - we won't tell...<i>but you'll have to if you want to win</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 th<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>e naughty deed in question…if you dare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><a href=""></a><b>Lexi</b> Post</b> spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about classical literature, but Lexi's<a href=""></a> 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). <a href="http://www.lexipostbooks.com/">http://www.lexipostbooks.com/</a></span></div>
FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-73679403098111071692014-04-21T13:42:00.001-07:002014-04-21T13:44:27.459-07:00<strong style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol</span></i></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rules of the Floridian Idol:<br />* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.<br />* One submission per attendee<br />* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.<br />* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.<br />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. <br /><i><br /><b>Pre pitch Workshop</b></i><br />Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> published authors.<br /><br /><b><i>Editor and Agent appointments</i></b><br />Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. <br /><br /><b><i>Love is in the details with Heidi Lynn Anderson</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Award winning muli<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a>-published author <b>Heidi Lynn Anderson</b>, 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 <a href="http://www.heidilynnanderson.com/">www.heidilynnanderson.com</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Website 101: Plan Before You Build with Win Day<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-CA">In her day job, <b>Win Day</b> 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 </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span lang="EN-CA">site:</span><a href="http://www.creativeimplementations.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></span><span lang="EN-CA">, Author site: </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.windaywrites.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black;">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*A limited number of appointments will be available for one-on-one sessions with Win- more details coming soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(needs to be shorter) <b><b>Åsa</b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> Maria Bradley</b> 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 at<a href="http://www.asamariabradley.com/" target="_blank">www.asamariabradley.com</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>R</b><b>ebecca Zanetti<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></b>, 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: <a href="http://www.rebeccazanetti.com/" target="_blank">www.RebeccaZanetti.com</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a>.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Writing Deep POV<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> with Amy Jarecki<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">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<i> Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View.</i> Topics will include: general points of view, what deep POV<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Amy Jarecki<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></b> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a>-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our leader for this journey: <b>Victoria Pinder<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a></b> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> of Blue Ridge Literary Agency for her next novels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sexy Confessions with Lexi<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> Post & Jennifer Kacey<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Join us for an interactive hour with some of your favorite erotic authors! Taboo tales you’d like to read, risque<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> - it'll be our little secret. Just whisper it. And don't worry - we won't tell...<i>but you'll have to if you want to win</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">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 th<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235" name="_GoBack"></a>e naughty deed in question…if you dare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a><b>Lexi</b> Post</b> spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about classical literature, but Lexi's<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3124851653738076235"></a> 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). <a href="http://www.lexipostbooks.com/">http://www.lexipostbooks.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><i>Back by popular demand......Floridian Idol</i></strong><br />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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rules of the Floridian Idol:<br />* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced, 12 pt standard font.<br />* One submission per attendee<br />* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.<br />* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.<br />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. <br /><i><br /><b>Pre pitch Workshop</b></i><br />Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW<a href=""></a> published authors.<br /><br /><b><i>Editor and Agent appointments</i></b><br />Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. <br /><br /><b><i>Love is in the details with Heidi Lynn Anderson</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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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. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Award winning muli<a href=""></a>-published author <b>Heidi Lynn Anderson</b>, 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 <a href="http://www.heidilynnanderson.com/">www.heidilynnanderson.com</a><a href=""></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">In her day job, <b>Win Day</b> 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 </span><span lang="EN-CA"><span lang="EN-CA">site:</span><a href="http://www.creativeimplementations.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><a href=""></a></span><span lang="EN-CA">, Author site:</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.windaywrites.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><a href=""></a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Our Dark and Twisted Family: Paranormal chat with Asa<a href=""></a> Maria Bradley and Rebecca Zanetti<a href=""></a><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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(needs to be shorter) <b><b>Åsa</b><a href=""></a> Maria Bradley</b> 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 at<a href="http://www.asamariabradley.com/" target="_blank">www.asamariabradley.com</a><a href=""></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Rebecca Zanetti<a href=""></a></b>, 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: <a href="http://www.rebeccazanetti.com/" target="_blank">www.RebeccaZanetti.com</a><a href=""></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(needs to be shorter) <b><b>Åsa</b><a href=""></a> Maria Bradley</b> 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 at<a href="http://www.asamariabradley.com/" target="_blank">www.asamariabradley.com</a><a href=""></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Writing Deep POV<a href=""></a> with Amy Jarecki<a href=""></a><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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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<i> Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View.</i>Topics will include: general points of view, what deep POV<a href=""></a> 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!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Amy Jarecki<a href=""></a></b> 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<a href=""></a> 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<a href=""></a>-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Write in with Victoria Pinder<a href=""></a></i></b><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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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<a href=""></a> 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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our leader for this journey: <b>Victoria Pinder<a href=""></a></b> 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<a href=""></a> of Blue Ridge Literary Agency for her next novels. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Sexy Confessions with Lexi<a href=""></a> Post & Jennifer Kacey<a href=""></a><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Join us for an interactive hour with some of your favorite erotic authors! Taboo tales you’d like to read, risque<a href=""></a> 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<a href=""></a> - it'll be our little secret. Just whisper it. And don't worry - we won't tell...<i>but you'll have to if you want to win</i>!<o:p></o:p></div>
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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 th<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>e naughty deed in question…if you dare.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><a href=""></a><b>Lexi</b> Post</b> spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about classical literature, but Lexi's<a href=""></a> 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). <a href="http://www.lexipostbooks.com/">http://www.lexipostbooks.com/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-21786072053721802832014-04-08T08:15:00.001-07:002014-04-08T08:15:34.677-07:00<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><br /></strong><strong>Back by popular demand......</strong><strong>Floridian Idol</strong></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 Simon Cowell type comments.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rules of the Floridian Idol:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced,12 pt standard font.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* One submission per attendee</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Readings are selected in the order in which they are received. We always try our best to ensure that every submission get read, but there are no guarantees. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><b>Pre pitch Workshop</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW published authors.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><b>Editor and Agent appointments</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. </span><br />
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-9964209460301716502014-04-08T08:13:00.002-07:002014-04-08T08:13:32.283-07:00<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Part of the fun of Nanowrimo are write ins. So this year, let’s introduce how much can you write in an hour or two. The hardest part of writing is finding the time to sit your butt in a chair and write the novel. Most novels are never finished because of this issue. After three hundred or so rejections, what motivated me to keep writing was some NANOWRIMO old fashioned write ins. So on the cruise, let’s have a group writing session. Must bring the computer or whatever writing utensil you have. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whether you’re new to writing or a seasoned professional, the Art of Writing workshops provide you with the focus necessary to skillfully craft your story. In this exercise, we look at how to create your manuscript’s pivotal scenes while keeping essential storytelling concepts in mind. Scene/Sequel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just like real life, it’s the little things that show us how someone feels. In this hour-long workshop, we will go over ways to “show” your reader how your Characters feel without being in their Point of view and with out them saying how they feel. We’ll look at the little things your Characters do and say that convey feeling. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 at<a href="http://www.asamariabradley.com/" target="_blank">www.asamariabradley.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">USA Today Bestselling Author Rebecca Zanetti 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: <a href="http://www.rebeccazanetti.com/" target="_blank">www.RebeccaZanetti.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">This is a hands on workshop</span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">with exercises for each topic. This is</span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">for experienced writers adapted from Jill Elizabeth Nelson’s</span><i style="text-indent: 0in;"> </i><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amy is the President of the Heritage Writer’s Guild in St. George, Utah and has won several awards including The League of Utah Writer’s Award for Best Manuscript, The Spark Book Award, and the CHRW Finish the Damn Book third place winner. She writes contemporary and Scottish historical romance. In 2014, she released five Scottish historical titles, and has consistently been on Amazon’s top 100 in that category. 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.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Things to know and questions to ask before you build (or rebuild) your website. </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">This workshop is for you if you don’t have a website yet, or if you’re considering revamping your existing website, or you want to move from one of the free blogging platforms (such as <a href="http://blogger.com/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">Blogger.com</a>,<a href="http://wordpress.com/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">WordPress.com</a>) to a website of your very own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Bio: </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="text-indent: 0in;">In her day job, Win is a web developer and business strategist (</span><a href="http://www.creativeimplementations.com/" style="text-indent: 0in;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.CreativeImplementations.com</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="text-indent: 0in;">), as well as a published non-fiction author. She’s also a romance writer (</span><a href="http://www.windaywrites.com/" style="text-indent: 0in;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-CA">www.WinDayWrites.com</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="text-indent: 0in;">) working on her first contemporary romance novel.</span></span></div>
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-58124914805696946902013-12-05T11:35:00.002-08:002014-04-08T08:13:48.359-07:00<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><br /></strong><strong>Back by popular demand......</strong><strong>Floridian Idol</strong></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 Simon Cowell type comments.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rules of the Floridian Idol:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced,12 pt standard font.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* One submission per attendee</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Readings are selected in the order in which they are received. We always try our best to ensure that every submission get read, but there are no guarantees. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Pre pitch Workshop</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Polish your pitch to perfection with the help of the FRW published authors.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Editor and Agent appointments</b><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & Editors. </span><br />
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-65850768358176208322012-05-29T06:23:00.001-07:002013-12-05T11:32:38.457-08:00<br />
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<strong>Back my popular demand......</strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Floridian Idol</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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 Simon Cowell type comments.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rules of the Floridian Idol:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* The first two manuscript pages, double spaced,12 pt standard font.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* One submission per attendee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Notate genre and manuscript length in the header.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Readings are selected in the order in which they are received. We always try our best to ensure that every submission get read, but there are no guarantees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Editor and Agent appointments</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sign up at registration on Thursday to have some valued one-on one time with our Agents & editors. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's Talk About Sex, Baby! with </span></b><strong style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Charlaine Harris, Demi Alex & Roz Lee </strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bring a glass of ice water and a fan because it is going to get steamy on the high seas. Join a collection of truly inspirational authors as they discuss what happens behind closed doors and sometimes in public! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Mystery Writing 101 with Nancy Cohen</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you haven’t got a clue where to start, this is the workshop for you! Author of the popular Bad Hair Day mystery series, Nancy Cohen, will teach how to plot a mystery. Topics include: Creating the Sleuth, Introducing the Suspects, Weaving a Web of Deceit, Heightening Suspense, Series Continuity, and Staying on Track. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I Wanna be a Writer with Traci Hall and Kathleen Pickering</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interactive and entertaining workshop will help you learn how to take an idea and make it into a novel ready to be published, while building a true career as an author. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">**This class requires early registration that will open October 15th, 2012**</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies, Oh My! with Charlaine Harris and Heather Graham</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Join us to discuss our fascination with all things paranormal and how to put a twist on old mythology making it new and interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Building Your Brand with Angela James from Carina Press</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many times has someone told you to build your brand, but not told you what that means? You think it might mean something about a tagline, or your website header, but in reality, building your brand is an important, and sometimes a complex endeavor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Industry News with Angela James, Micki Nuding, Elaine Spencer and Leslie Wainger </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's hot and what's not? What are agents selling and what are editors buying? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Polish Your Pitch with Karen Kendall and various FRW Published Authors</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get nervous every time you pitch a new project? Not sure how to pitch for the first time? This is the place to be. Work in small groups with published FRW authors until your pitch is perfect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Everything You Wanted to Know From an Agent and Were Afraid to Ask with Elaine Spencer from The Knight Agency</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How do I get you to pick mine out of all your queries?” “What if I don’t have any published works to mention in my bio?” “What do you mean when you write back that my work just ‘wasn’t the right fit?’” “What should I ask you before I accept your offer or representation?” “What did she *really* think about that pitch?” Afraid of the tough questions? Well, Elaine Spencer of The Knight Agency isn’t afraid to answer them! Come by and listen to her truthful responses about today’s publishing industry, the author/agent relationship, and what you should be doing to help your career flourish. Elaine will host a casual and dynamic discussion with workshop participants that will take the fear out of talking with an agent one-on-one. During this hour-long chat, prepare for many of the walls to come down and to learn what’s really going on behind the agent mystique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Finding Time for your Dream (Time Management for Writers) with Carolyn Rae Williamson</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't get caught washing your car or painting your nails and let opportunity pass you by. Find time to experience your dream and be ready for opportunities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Hooking your Reader with Humor presented by Pearl Wolf</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Explore the pleasures and the pitfalls of humor in your work. Do you use a sledgehammer or a are you subtle. How do you know if your reader 'gets' it? This is not a workshop requirement, but you may bring an example from your work, if you care to share!</span><br />
<br />FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-7639709511112186112011-09-23T08:42:00.000-07:002011-09-23T08:42:17.298-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are now accepting Workshop proposals......</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Florida Romance Writers of South Florida cordially invites speakers to submit proposals for our Fun in the Sun Conference to be held for the third time at sea! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Join us for a four night cruise to Cozumel aboard the Liberty of the Sea and use this unique opportunity to present a writing workshop at our on-board conference. Our goal is to present diverse and interesting workshops that can hold their own against the attractions the ship will offer! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Send your proposals by e-mail to our conference co-ordinator Kimberly Gonzalez at FRWfuninthesun@yahoo.com by February 1st, 2012. We will select programs on a first-come-first- serve basis, as well as by diversity of subjects. Feel free to contact Kimberly with any questions you may have. </span><br />
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FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-65907185020009955772011-06-09T20:39:00.000-07:002011-06-09T20:39:10.642-07:00We are beginning to plan our 2013 conference.<br />
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If you would like to submit a workshop proposal email <a href="mailto:frwfuninthesun@yahoo.com">frwfuninthesun@yahoo.com</a> and add you name to our mailing list.FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-70653157877539419022010-09-29T06:53:00.000-07:002012-04-17T08:57:07.931-07:00Conference Schedule:<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<b>Wednesday, January 23, 2013</b>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Per Carnival website: You must check in at least 1 1/2 hours prior to departure or risk cancellation of your reservation.</span></div>
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8:00am- 7:00pm Workshops and other Conference Events</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8:00am- 7:00pm Agent & Editor Appointments </span></div>
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8:00am- 7:00pm <span style="font-size: small;"> Workshops </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Floridian Idol:</b> Submit the first two pages of your manuscript at registration and our dynamic readers will read the pages aloud to the group. The Agents and Editors will offer their valuable feedback on each submission. Be aware, we occasionally get some Simon Cowell type comments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">* One submission per attendee</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">* Notate genre, and manuscript length in the header.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Industry News with Editors and Agents</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Keynote Speeches</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Golden Palm Winner</b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Writing Conflict & Character with Joan Johnston</b>--Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Effective promotion in a competitive market with Sally Schoeneweiss</b>: How to reach your readers. The array of promotional possibilities today is dizzying! Marketing whiz Sally Schoeneweiss (check spelling of her name!), founder of Book Talk and Talk Ink, will speak on how to decide what's right for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pre-appointment Polish your pitch with Karen Kendall:</b> Attendees will work in small groups with published authors to polish their pitch to perfection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mystery Writing 101 with Nancy Cohen:</b> If you haven’t got a clue where to start, this is the workshop for you! Author of the popular Bad Hair Day mystery series, will teach how to plot a mystery. Topics include: Creating the Sleuth, Introducing the Suspects, Weaving a Web of Deceit, Heightening Suspense, Series Continuity, and Staying on Track. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Keeping it Real the Teen Brain with Traci Hall:</b> Why teens and world building are a perfect match – making the unfreakingbelievable believable through character. Delve into the teen psyche and learn what makes teens tick. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>HEA Dreaming - How to Write an Emotion Packed Ending with Linda Conrad: </b> This Workshop will show you how to create an ending that turns your book into a keeper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Muse Therapy with D. D. Scott:</b> Could you use a romance writer's go-to-gal for muse disorders? If so, stop looking 'cause you found me. It is all about injecting life into tired and/or stressed out muses. Discover what makes your muses tick. What ticks ‘em off. And what makes ‘em dance like nobody's watching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Finding Your Voice with Luann McLane:</b> You have a great hook, a complicated plot, lively characters, believable dialogue and yes even a vampire and you’re still getting rejections. What is the problem? Why can’t you get published? What is that elusive something that you’re lacking? Until you discover your voice, that special writing DNA that is uniquely yours, you will lack that sparkle, that shine that will make your manuscript stand out from the rest of the submissions. So… how do you find your voice?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>No More Secret Babies—A History of Contraception with Liese Sherwood-Fabre:</b> This workshop explores how couples have attempted to prevent conception from the ancient to the modern world.</span></div>
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</b>FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3124851653738076235.post-59666982405165351122010-05-14T08:39:00.000-07:002010-07-26T12:57:14.959-07:00<div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sampling of Conference Events and Workshops</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the highlight of the conference is our annual</span><span class="content" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://frwfuninthesunworkshops.blogspot.com/"> </a></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Floridian Idol</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Submit the first two pages of your manuscript at </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">registration and our dynamic readers will read the pages </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">aloud to the group. The Agents and Editors will offer their </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">valuable feedback on each submission. Be aware, we </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">occasionally get some Simon Cowell type comments. </span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Rules of the Floridian Idol:</i></b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The first two manuscript pages</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* One submission per attendee</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Notate genre, and manuscript length in the header.</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">* All submissions must be turned in at registration, so carry them on board with you.</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="role_document"><b>Effective promotion in a competitive market with </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sally Schoeneweiss</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="role_document">How to reach your readers. The array of promotional possibilities today is dizzying! Marketing whiz Sally Schoeneweiss (check spelling of her name!), founder of Book Talk and Talk Ink, will speak on how to decide what's right for you. </span></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Polish your pitch</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> with Karen Kendall</b></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Attendees will work in small groups with published authors to polish their pitch to perfection. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mystery Writing 101 with Nancy Cohen</b></span> <br />
<div class="NormalWeb1"><span style="font-size: small;">If you haven’t got a clue where to start, this is the workshop for you!</span></div><div class="NormalWeb1"><span style="font-size: small;">Author of the popular Bad Hair Day mystery series, will teach how to plot a mystery. Topics include: Creating the Sleuth, Introducing the Suspects, Weaving a Web of Deceit, Heightening Suspense, Series Continuity, and Staying on Track.</span></div></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Keeping it Real the Teen Brain with Traci Hall</b></span></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why teens and world building are a perfect match – making the unfreakingbelievable believable through character. Delve into the teen psyche and learn what makes teens tick.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>HEA Dreaming - How to Write an Emotion Packed Ending with Linda Conrad</b></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">This Workshop will show you how to create an ending that turns your book into a keeper.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: small;">Discover what makes your muses tick. What ticks ‘em off. And what makes ‘em dance like nobody's watching. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>No More Secret Babies—A History of Contraception with Liese Sherwood-Fabre</b></span></div><div><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 9" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 9" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/KGONZA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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</style><span style="font-size: small;">This workshop explores how couples have attempted to prevent conception from the ancient to the modern world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Heather Graham, & Joan Johnston</b> </span><span style="font-size: small;">will each present a workshop sharing their word of wisdom with us. Specific topics of the workshops to be announced.</span></div></div>FRW Fun in the Sun 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/06918914228237550454noreply@blogger.com