Romance Writers of America
30th Annual National Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
July 28 – 31, 2010
FMI: rwanational.org/cs/conferences_and_events
Join us for a conference at the beach!
The Silken Sands Writers’ Conference will be held March 19-21, 2010, in beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida. Our conference hotel is located directly on the pristine beach–and you can see dolphins swim from your gulf-view room. Come join us for writing workshops, editor & agent pitch sessions, and networking [...]
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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for September.
Date: 9/7 – 10/2/09
Workshop title: Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am: Cutting to the Chase and Writing First Chapters That HOOK
Description: Did you know that prospective editors and agents sometimes make their decision as to whether or not to contract [...]
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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for September.
Date: 9/7/ – 10/2/09
Workshop title: Writing Hot, Delicious Love Scenes
Description: Do the love scenes or sex scenes in your romance novel lack that magical spark and sizzling heat that makes the reader go WHEW!!? The romance genre has exploded [...]
Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for September.
Date: 9/7 – 10/2/09
Workshop title: Storyboarding
Description: Hate blinking cursors or rewriting? Have a very time-pressed schedule? To avoid all of those and maintain sanity in the middle of deadlines and challenging books requires a little more pre-plotting than Ready with some characters, Set [...]
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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for August.
Date: 08/03/09 – 08/28/09
Workshop title: PR Boot Camp
Gone are the days when a good book was all an author needed to build her career. Today, authors need to master the art of self-promotion to build the buzz that leads [...]
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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for August.
Date: 08/03/09 – 08/28/09
Workshop title: How to Create Classic Tough Heroines
As martial artist, Jacqui Jacoby is interested in self-defense and how women are portrayed in the media. At first, it seemed as if it was only Hollywood showing women [...]
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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for August.
Date: 8/10 – 9/4/09
Workshop title: Plot Doctor: Fixing Your Story Problems
Do you create wonderful, three-dimensional characters who then stumble around blindly in your book, trying to find a story? Are you a “pantser” who writes yourself into a corner? [...]
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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
March.
Date: 3/2 – 3/27/09
Workshop title: Block-Busting: Putting the Joy Back in Writing
At some point, almost all writers suffer from the inability to tell
The story they want. Part of writer’s block is a lack of joy in the
Process. So counselor Laurie [...]
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Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for
March.
Date: 3/2 – 3/27/09
Workshop title: Turn up the Heat! Heightening Sexual Tension and
Sensuality in Your Manuscript
Editors want to buy spicy-hot romance stories now more than ever
before. How do you do it? In this class we will discuss all aspects of
sexual [...]