syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
Had a lovely time at the dinner. I was with people I didn’t know but they were all very nice and welcoming and we had fun. Congratulations to all winners of awards. Here are some of the highlights. The winner of the LYNNE WILDING MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD is: Helen Katsinis The winner of the VALERIE […]
Alison Ahern (moderator) Helen Breitwiesser – literary agent, owner of Cornerstone Literary Agency Monique Patterson – exec editor at St Martin’s Press Alexander Sokoloff – thriller writer and script writer Eloisa James – regency writer and university professor Birgit Davis-Todd – Senior Executive Editor, Harlequin Alison opened by asking the panel what they thought will […]
Romantic Suspense Panel presented by Bronwyn Parry, Sandy Curtis, Shannon Curtis & Helene Young. Often considered a difficult genre – needs to have equal amounts of romance and suspense. Tension and conflict between characters is always present. need to have climax for romance and climax for suspense (both genres) if you are writing romantic suspense […]
Presented by the wonderful Anne Gracie. There must be a psychological motivation for a character to change, in order to get their happy ending An engaged reader is intrigued by characters in a story they work to discover a character’s secrets they will wonder about motivation for various acts will read forward, putting clues together […]
JJ Cooper has written two action thrillers – 17 years in Australian army – 2 tours in East Timor, 1 tour in middle east – was an army interrogator General tips: – write and edit until you are sick of reading your own writing – people read for escapism, but we also write for escapism […]
Panelists: Caroline Comito (writing as CJ Archer – self published and Montlake digital imprint) Shannon Curtis (Carina Press) Denise Rosetti (Berkley publications and Elora’s Cave) Elisabeth Rose (Avalon Books, Whiskey Creek Press (digital) Amazon’s Montlake digital imprint) Annie Seaton (Lyrical Press, Entangled, and self published) Kandy Shepherd (Berkley Sensation and self published) Paths to publication: […]
Eloisa James: Channeling Jane PhD, Professor in Shakespeare at Fordham University in New York Writes Regency romance, married to an Italian Knight (really!) 1. having motivation for writing is not enough, you need to work at it 2. what you write about has to come from your own life experiences, no matter what genre you […]
Well we had the official welcome, and then they announced the new first time published authors. There were 31 one of them this year which is awesome – one is my buddy Peta Crake who I met last year. Her debut novel Harbinger was announced as part of the Penguin Destiny Romance line on Thursday […]
I’ll put the rest of the Screenwriting Tips for Authors up another time. I was at the Harlequin cocktail party and then out at dinner with friends, and it is now late. Had a great day. Here is my timetable for tomorrow 8.30am – Welcome, First Sales and Little Gems Anthology Launch 8.50am – Keynote […]
Three act structure used in movies and books comes from plays has been used for more than 2,000 years also used in novels adapted for movies As authors, or playwrights or screenwriters, we need to follow this structure because readers – our audience – expects it. We deviate from it at our peril. Part of […]