Panel discussion: Beyond the Big Six

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: […]

Keynote address 1: Channeling Jane: Eloisa James

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 […]

Conference Day One

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 […]

Screenwriting tips for Authors workshop – part 1

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 […]

Writing workshop – homework

The presenter of the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors Workshop, Alexandra Sokoloff, sent attendees an email last week asking us to prepare some homework prior to the workshop. The questions were as follows: 1.  What genre are you writing in?  Giving this is a romance convention, what subgenre are you writing in? 2.  Make a list […]

Penguin special event

Oh yeah the Penguin special event. This was a bit of a mystery, we weren’t sure what kind of event this was. Well, in a very interesting development, Penguin announced it’s new digital imprint, Destiny Romance.  It is going to have a strong Australian author focus apparently – there are 5 Australian authors in the […]

Plenary Session: And they lived happily ever after

Next was actually the Panel session: the Next 20 Years, which I posted at the time. And finally there was the last Plenary by Jane Porter. This was fun, and at times quite moving.  Jane read excerpts of the rejection letters she got for 14 books over a 17 year period.  During this time there […]