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I’m pleased to announce my pal Priscilla Kissinger and I will be visiting Tampa this spring to present two workshops for the Tampa Area Romance Authors (TARA).
It’s always fun to meet new writers and to talk about the craft of writing. TARA is a chapter of the Romance Writers of America™ –arguably the best organization around for published and aspiring writers. Details of the date, location, and topics to be covered follow. If you are in the Tampa area and you love writing, I hope you’ll attend. Visitors are welcome.
What:
Tampa Area Romance Authors Monthly Meeting
When:
May 10th, 2014 – Saturday
10 AM – 3 PM with a Break for Lunch
Where:
Piccadilly Cafeteria
11810 North Dale Mabry Highway
Greater Carrollwood, FL
Topics:
Balancing Emotion and Pacing for Unforgettable Fiction
Authors know that emotion is the key to engaging readers in the story, but we’re often urged to trim backstory and inner dialogue and focus on driving the story forward. This workshop will provide practical tools to get that critical emotion on the page without bogging down your story. Balancing emotion and pacing will deliver the emotional impact your story needs to keep readers turning pages and push a scene or novel beyond competent to unforgettable.
Embracing Love Scenes
The thought of writing a love scene often has the power to make a writer moan, and not in a good way. Covering the roles, types, and elements of love scenes, this workshop will arm you with the tools and tips you’ll need to tackle love scenes with passion and excitement.
2014 is just a few days away, but I already have a good feeling about it. I think it’s going to be a really exciting year, full of changes.
To start the year off, I’ll be presenting two writing craft workshops with the smart, kind and talented Prissilla Kissenger. We’ll be at two different North Florida RWA chapters: Central Florida Romance Writers(CFRW) and Ancient City Romance Authors(ACRA).
Most chapters allow visitors to attend once or twice without joining, so please look them up for more information if you are in the area and would like to attend. We’ll be in Jacksonville/St. Augustine (ACRA) January 25th and Orlando (CFRW) February 1st.
Here is more about the workshop….
Balancing Emotion and Pacing for Unforgettable Fiction
Workshop Description:
Authors know that emotion is the key to engaging readers in the story, but we’re often urged to trim backstory and inner dialog and focus on driving the story forward. This workshop will provide practical tools to get that critical emotion on the page without bogging down your story. Balancing emotion and pacing will deliver the emotional impact your story needs to keep readers turning pages and push a scene or novel beyond competent to unforgettable.
Presenter Bios:
Priscilla A. Kissinger is a three-time Golden Heart finalist who writes contemporary romance with a Latino flavor. A single mom with three daughters, Priscilla recently earned an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. During the day she works as an administrator at a major university, and she spends her free time writing, reading, playing tennis, training for half marathons, watching sports and singing karaoke with her family. You can find out more about her at www.prisakiss.com.
Charlee Allden is a multi-award winning author of sexy, intense, out-of-this-world romance. She is also a self-proclaimed craft junkie whose idea of a good time is rereading a book for the third time to analyze what makes it tick. Charlee lives in Florida where she is a technical writer for a small tech firm. You can find out more about Charlee at www.charleeallden.com.
I’m very excited to announce that there is a new book magazine on the horizon and this on is dedicated to SciFi Romance. To make it even more fun, I was invited to be a regular contributor. My article: Got Alpha Males? is included in the inaugural edition.
Here is the press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Announcing the Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly!
The Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly is a free digital magazine devoted to all things sci-fi romance. It’s a convenient, one-stop destination for science fiction romance news and information.
The first issue will launch November 15, 2013. Each issue will cover a three-month period.
Content you’ll discover includes:
* Topical columns on a variety of SFR-related subjects
* Honest, in-depth book reviews
* Information about new science fiction romance releases
* An exclusive, original sci-fi romance short story!
The team behind Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly is K.S. Augustin, Editor-in-Chief, Diane Dooley, Fiction Editor, and Heather Massey, Releases Editor.
For more information, visit scifiromancequarterly.org