Workshop Report: Plotting the Romantic Suspense Novel
Do you like to kill people in your books? Or at least strew a dead body or two around? Then Annie Solomon’s “Plotting the Romantic Suspense Novel” workshop is for you. Boy, do I wish I had attended this one before I started Music of the Night. It...Workshop Report: Query Letters by Lisa Verge Higgins
At the fabulous New Jersey Romance Writers “Put Your Heart in a Book” Conference, I attended a great workshop on writing query letters. Multi-pubbed author Lisa Verge Higgins presented a well-organized, information-packed class on how to write a...The Rita Awards
How many of you know that the highest award a romance novelist can win is the Rita? Each year the Romance Writers of America (the largest writers’ group in the world!) honor the best books in the genre at their national conference. As you might imagine, the...Conference Report: Professionalism
Two smart, young literary agents, Jennifer Schober of Spencerhill Associates and Laura Bradford of the Bradford Literary Agency, presented part of a workshop titled How to Catch Flies: on Professionalism and Choosing Your Own Business Reputation. I say “part” of a...Conference Report: The Perfect Pitch
Honestly, I hadn’t planned to go to this workshop. I’ve read articles, attended presentations, and done pitches already. Pitching is second only to writing a synopsis in my list of things I’d rather run through a swarm of angry bees than do. However, when I looked at...Follow Nancy
