Hello Rose City Romance Writers! Here are some handouts for you to use during and after our June 13th workshop. Some of my slides are text heavy, so here’s a printer-friendly version of the slides so that you can take notes without having to try to copy stuff from the slides.–> Writing Blurbs & Pitches that Sell Slides This handout have the blurbs I used as examples in the presentation, a worksheet to guide you through writing your blurbs, plus a bunch of resources to further learn about pitches, blurbs, and tropes. –> Writing Blurbs & Pitches that Sell Resources …
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This Wednesday, I discuss genre writing with the amazing Tamara Berry, Colin Conway, and Frank Zafiro. We’ll be talking about writing romance, mystery, crime fiction, science fiction, and more. Plus, our moderator is the fabulous Sharma Shields. If you’re in the Spokane Area, I’d love to see you! Wed. June 12 at 6 – 7 PM at the South Hill Library3324 S Perry St, Spokane, WA 99203More info at: https://events.spokanelibrary.org/event/10715925
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I did a thing! I love paper planning and have been designing my own stickers, trackers, and check lists for a while. I’ve now made them all available on Etsy in my PlannerSphere shop! I can’t cut a straight line to save my life, so I usually design for and print on standard pre-cut labels that you can purchase in any stationery store. If you are a writer, teacher, or planner addict, check out: https://www.etsy.com/shop/plannersphere/. For each design, I specify which label template they are designed for and the zip file you download includes a completed template in PDF and …
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Being Swedish but Writing in English–On AAR Today.
I am a guest on All About Romance today discussing what it’s like writing fiction in your non-native language. Usually my brain is thinking in the same language as I’m currently speaking or writing, so I don’t have that much of a problem switching between English and Swedish. But for the Viking Warriors series, I’m often doing research in Swedish while writing in English–which makes for interesting sentence structures in the first draft. 🙂 If you’d like to find out more–including why the Swedish school history books may need an update about Vikings–check out the article. One can witness the …
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Fun with Synopses: A Collection of Awesome Resources
The Golden Heart deadline is coming up and, as usual, I’m scrambling to write my synopsis. The good news is that I have polished manuscript to an extra gleaming sheen while I procrastinated the summary part. As you can tell, I’m not a fan of summarizing my masterpiece in 5 pages or less. I’m getting better at it though. This is largely because of some awesome tools that generous writers share on their websites. In the spirit of prolonging the inevitable a bit longer, I decided to share the most useful ones I’ve found here, with you, as an early …