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YRW Online Workshop: Developing Plot and Tension in the Novel

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for July.
Date: 07/06 – 07/31
Workshop title: Developing Plot and Tension in the Novel
Description: You may have wonderful ideas for your novel, fascinating characters, and beautiful writing, but those attributes alone won’t tie a novel together. Plot and the ensuing tension [...]

YRW Online Workshop: Following the Thread: Writing Linked Trilogies

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for July.
Date: 07/06 – 07/31
Workshop title: Following the Thread: Writing Linked Trilogies
Description: Readers read novels because they love stories and people. Long before readers become attached to an author, they become attached to the characters in those stories. It’s natural, [...]

YRW Workshop: Past Life Regression for the Writer’s Soul: A New Approach to Character Creation

**Permission to forward granted and encouraged**
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for July.
Date: 07/06 – 07/31
Workshop title: Past Life Regression for the Writer’s Soul: A New Approach to Character Creation
Description: Have you ever had the feeling that you have been to a certain place or time or experienced reoccurring dreams? Have [...]

A suggestion…

I’ve been a member of Romance Writers of America for more years than I can count and I’ve noticed a pattern. Each year before the National Conference and generally after the Rita/GH finalists have been announced something happens within the organization that gets everyone fired up. Whether this is on purpose (or even has a [...]

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Roundup 6.17.09

For starters, if you’re looking for an agent, check out the new page here on CataU. It’s short and sweet but hopefully helpful.
According to Jennifer AlLee, Las Vegas Writing Examiner, these are five agent blogs you should be reading.
If you’re looking for agents to follow on Twitter, here are a few you might be interested [...]

STORY TIPS #6 – THE TICKING CLOCK

The ticking clock. . .
As authors, we are always looking for ways to crank up the dramatic tension within our stories. One of the best ways to do this is with what is known as a time lock.
Time locks set a deadline for the hero to get what he wants and inject urgency into the [...]

News Round Up – 6.11.09

Ebooks sales are up, up, up according to Fiction Matters.
Dorchester Publishing is now accepting submissions via email. Guidelines:
http://www.dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SubmissionGuidlines.cfm
Other publishers accepting email submissions include:

Avon: http://www.harpercollins.com/imprints/avon/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx
Spice Briefs: http://eharlequin.com/articlepage.html?articleId=1264&chapter=0
Nocturne Bites: http://eharlequin.com/articlepage.html?articleId=1336&chapter=0
Query only to Kensington Books:
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=14298
Most/if not all ebook publishers

RWA President Diane Pershing has some members questioning whether or not they should continue their [...]

Tips for Authors Who Need More Time to Write

Author: Danny Stooksbury
Is time on your side? I’ve spoken to dozens of people who have told me about their great ideas for books but never followed through with a manuscript. There are plenty of excuses for why these could-have-been authors never were. However, lack of time is without a doubt the most common pretext. But [...]

The Synopsis — An Editors View

Author: Laurie Sanders
Imagine for a moment that you have just been hired as an acquisitions editor a small publishing company that publishes romance. Your task is to find a romantic suspense novel to fill a gaping hole in the publisher’s schedule. You are excited, thinking you have just landed your dream job. After all, you’ll [...]