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MEETINGS 2010 - View Our Calendar Map Our Location - Second Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chapter MeetingsRCRW meets the second Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. at Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus, room HT 123 unless stated differently on the homepage of the RCRW website. Each meeting begins with a brief business meeting and is followed by a guest speaker. Author booksignings are often scheduled after the meeting. Check the Home Page for current speaker and meeting information.
A detailed PCC-Sylvania campus map may help you to locate the building. If you're interested in joining us as a guest and would like more information, please e-mail our V. P. of Membership, Jessie Smith. As membership chair, Jessie can also provide information on how to become a member. Please check out our Membership page for a list of benefits that come with joining the chapter. All programs and speakers are arranged by our V.P. of Programs. The V.P. of Programs plan programs from March-March each year. If you have any comments or suggestions for future speakers, please e-mail Sue Liwanag. Are you considering joinging Rose City Romance Writers? To get an idea of the wonderful slate of meeting speakers we are able to get each year take a look at our scheduled line-up. 2010 is already shaping up to be a great year! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark your calendars now!! 2010 Speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 11, 2010 Workshop from 11:00 – 12:30 Room HT 123 Presenter: Christina Katz Workshop: Get Known Before the Book Deal: An Author Platform Check List Becoming visible is more crucial to landing a book deal than ever according to agents and editors in every facet of the publishing industry. Aspiring authors of all varieties need to develop a platform in order to get noticed. Based on her book, Get Known Before the Book Deal, Christina Katz will help you see the bigger platform picture and take the steps every writer must to get known and land a book deal. Participants will learn how to: assess whether or not they are platform-ready, cultivate the skills to develop a platform over time, gather up their writing credentials into an impressive one-pager. Even if you are not yet known and you don’t have a writing specialty, you will enjoy this lively presentation about how to name, claim, cultivate and explain your all-important writer’s platform from scratch. Speaker Bio: Christina Katz is the author of Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform and Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids for Writer’s Digest Books. She has written hundreds of articles for national, regional, and online publications, presents at literary and publishing events around the country, and is a monthly columnist for the Willamette Writer. Katz publishes a weekly e-zine, The Prosperous Writer, and hosts The Northwest Author Series. She holds an MFA in writing from Columbia College Chicago and a BA from Dartmouth College. A “gentle taskmaster” to her hundred or so students each year, Katz channels over a decade of professional writing experience into success strategies that help writers get on track and get published. Book: Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform (Writer's Digest Books 2008) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aug 14th, 2010 Time: Workshop 10:00 – 11:00, Chapter Meeting immediately following from 11:00 – 12:30 "The Three "P"s of Marketing: Push, Pull, and Point-of-Purchase Does the term "marketing" make you shake from the top of your head to the tip of your favorite Jimmy Choos? Well, shake no more. This session will take a 'divide and conquer' approach on how to plan and execute marketing programs. We will explore these three concepts and give an overview of how to apply Push, Pull, and Point-of-Purchase Marketing to your budding writing career. This course is designed for both published and unpublished authors in all mediums." Cheryl Kennedy In 2006, Cheryl Kennedy completed her MBA with a concentration on Marketing and Entrepreneurship. She is currently the Product Marketing Manager for Energy and Industrial Metering Products for Veris Industries in Tigard, OR. Cheryl is responsible for pricing, new product introductions, tradeshows, multi-media advertisements, marketing collateral, and voice of customer research for a multi-million dollar product portfolio. Often her marketing duties take her across the country and even around the world. Cheryl's marketing and sales experience spans more than 15 years. If you can catch her, she is more than willing to offer advice and support! Susan Borowy Susan Borowy is a pre-published author with several finished novels, actively seeking an agent/editor. She is a former Corporate Presenter and Trainer for the semiconductor industry, managing a busy sales agency for 20 years. She has taught software and all forms of computerized communication since before the internet and personal computers became household appliances, and is now branching out on her own, coaching marketing in the digital age and developing your online presence. Please visit her at www.SusanBorowy.com. Mary Stepec Mary Stepec was part of a team-of-three that started an engineering services company in NJ. When she moved to Oregon five years later, there were 18 field offices, a fleet of vans around the country, and 56 field techs that called her mom. In Oregon, she was a business consultant and tech writer for AT&T Wireless, Tektronix, Nike and Intel. She left corporate America in 2006. Four amazing women call her “mom”, and five heroes-in-training call her “grandma”. A volunteer Ambassador for Make-A-Wish of Oregon, Mary is incubating her reincarnation with a new name, blogging as Terri Patrick about her journey as a writer and all things interesting to her. She has a static website at theresepatrick.com that was designed to be a value-added delight for her memoir – which is about – her mom! Room TCB 218 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 10th, 2010 Hell, Yes! I Want to be a Happy Writer! Presenters: Darla Lukenbaugh and Susan Lute Presentation Time 11:00 -12:00 Golden Rose Contest Judging Q&A - Paula and Mae 12:00 - 12:30 Room TCB 218 Are you a happy writer? Do you remember that spark of joy when you're writing, where you just couldn't wait to get back to the characters and world you created? Join Susan Lute and Darla Lukenbaugh in "Hell, Yes! I Want to be a Happy Writer!", an interactive workshop that will guide you through the steps to get back that spark of happiness inside and feed your creative well for years to come. Our goal is to help you find that happy writer hidden inside, not tomorrow, or next month ... but right now. Presenters: Susan Lute has been a member of RWA and Rose City Romance Writers since 1997. She joined PASIC in 2003, and is also a member of the Author's Guild and the Greater Seattle RWA chapter. She has served on the Board of RCRW as secretary for three years, President for three years, and has just completed her fifth year as Author Liaison for RCRW's popular Readers' Luncheon. Published with Silhouette Books, Susan is a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Nominee and Holt Medallion Finalist. She is currently writing post-apocalyptic paranormal romance. Darla Lukenbaugh writes Romance Suspense stories about Bad-Ass, Kick-butt Women and the men who would die for them. She has seven completed manuscripts and is working on number eight, the second in a trilogy. Her last completed manuscript, HUNTER'S REVENGE finaled in PASICs Book of Your Heart contest two years in a row, Mainstream category. In her spare time, Darla enjoys kayaking and riding her motorcycle with hubby of twenty five years. After growing up in the concrete jungle of Southern California, she's living her dream on the family farm in the beautiful mid-Willamette Valley, with hubby of 25 years, two grown children, two cats who are more like children then pets, and one sweet mutt who *thinks* she's a lap dog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 2010 Presenter: Jessica Page Morrell June 12th is a ½ day workshop. Chapter meeting from 10:00-10:30 Character Arc Bullies, Bastards and Bitches: Bad Guys in Fiction There are various kinds of bad guys in fiction—unlikable protagonists, antagonists, anti-heroes and villains. This workshop will differentiate among the types and explain how to create characters that readers love to hate. We’ll also discuss how to create multi-layered, three-dimensional and believable bad guys and how their back story must be woven into the present. Our discussion will explain that bad guys are bigger than life, perfectly suited for their role in the story, and strangely compelling. We’ll also cover how antagonists don’t necessarily need to be evil and how they are perfectly suited for creating chaos and complications. The workshop will cover dangerous women in their various roles as protagonist, anti hero, antagonist and villain. Speaker Bio: Jessica Page Morrell lives in Portland, Oregon where she is surrounded by writers and watches the sky all its moods and shades. She’s the author of Thanks, But This Isn’t For Us, A (Sort of) Compassionate Guide to Why Your Writing is Being Rejected; Bullies, Bastards & Bitches, How to Write the Bad Guys in Fiction, The Writer’s I Ching : Wisdom for the Creative Life, Voices from the Street, Between the Lines: Master The Subtle Elements Of Fiction Writing, and Writing Out the Storm. She began teaching writers in 1991 and now teaches through a series of workshops in the Northwest and at writing conferences throughout North America and lectures to various writing organizations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 2010 The Do It Anyway Guide to Getting Published: Adopting an Attitude of Abundance in a Time of Scarcity Presenter: Alice Orr Session 1: 9:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 11:15 Session 2: 11:15 -12:30 Location: Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus - In Room TCB 218 The January 4th issue of Publishers Weekly magazine has this to say about the state of the publishing business. “While it would be nice to think the worst is over, don’t bet on it.” Alice Orr says, “What you can bet on is the power of the individual spirit to survive bad times and thrive into what comes after. The writer’s spirit is especially well designed for surviving and thriving because writers are a courageous lot. All they need is some guidance and nudge and off they go over every obstacle in sight.” Alice’s presentation – The Do It Anyway Guide to Getting Published: Adopting an Attitude of Abundance in a Time of Scarcity – was created to be that guidance and motivating nudge. Alice’s twenty-five years in publishing as book editor, literary agent, published author and teacher have been a powerful lesson in the ups and downs of this business, how to ride with those changes and how to land intact on the other side. The current economic situation is a sharper drop onto the downside than the ones before it, but the principles of getting back to the upside are the same. Alice has a clear view of those principles based on her long experience and constant monitoring of the publishing scene. Speaker Bio: Alice Orr has a wide range of experience in writing and publishing – as teacher and lecturer, published author, editor and literary agent. Alice is a former book editor for a New York City publisher of mystery-suspense and women’s fiction. As president of Alice Orr Literary Agency, also in New York City, she represented many talented, successful authors including New York Times and USA Today bestsellers and numerous award winners. Alice is an author with numerous articles, essays and thirteen novels published so far. Her fiction has received national awards and appeared on Amazon.com’s list of the fifty most popular titles from her publisher and imprint. Her nonfiction book, No More Rejections: 50 Secrets to Writing A Manuscript That Sells, published by Writers Digest Books, is a comprehensive guide to writing fiction with editor-agent appeal. Amazon.com says, “This book has it all.” Alice lectures nationally on writing and publishing, instructing authors in specific strategies for regaining power over the fate of their writing careers in today’s publishing marketplace. She also consults privately with authors on career strategy and maximizing marketability of their manuscripts. Alice is past President of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and past Vice-President of Sisters In Crime Mid-Atlantic Chapter. She has lectured on the mystery-suspense genre for twenty-plus years and now presents nationally as principal speaker for Law Seminars International on “How to Write the Legal Thriller or Mystery Novel to Die For." Alice was named Agent of the Year by both the New Jersey and New York Chapters of RWA, as well as Editor of the Year by the National Booklovers Convention. Alice is married, has two grown children and two perfect grandchildren. She lives with her husband Jonathan on Pink Tractor Farm at the heart of Vashon Island, Washington. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APR 2010 Recovering from Burnout Presenter: Lucy Monroe Recovering from Burnout is exactly that and despite what it may sound like, probably the most broadly directed topic as both pubbed and unpubbed authors fight burnout, and not even always for different reasons. I've known lots of authors to walk away from their writing before selling their first novels because it just took too much out of them, and just as many authors struggling to continue to write after they publish for a host of other reasons that amount to the same thing. Speaker Bio: Award winning author Lucy Monroe had her first book published in September 2003. Since then she has sold more than 50 books to four publishers and hit national bestseller lists in the US and England. She writes sexy category romance for Harlequin Presents including her own ongoing mini-series, The Royal Brides. If you prefer a longer book, but want to keep it steamy, try her Mercenary trilogy or Goddard Project series from Kensington Brava. If you’re a historical fan, Lucy’s written a sensual trilogy for Berkley as well as beginning her Children of the Moon series, sexy shape shifters in Medieval Scotland. She’s also published a historical single title with Samhain as well as two inspirational romances under the pseudonym LC Monroe. Lucy just plain loves romance! She’s a passionate devotee to the genre and keeps a vibrant blog where she chats with readers, authors and industry professionals – as well as a celebrity guest blogger here and there. Her highly charged, sensual stories touch on the realties of life while giving the reader a fantasy story not easily forgotten. Whatever the type of romance, Lucy’s books transports her readers to a special place where the heart rules and love conquers all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAR 2010 Self-Editing: An Essential Skill Presenter: Judith B. Glad Sloppy writing can be the kiss of death to spectacular storytelling. When a reader has to work hard to get through a story, how long will she persist? I believe that the very best writing is so invisible that a reader isn't even aware of it, that the story pulls her through with nary a stumble over a misplaced modifier, a wandering body part or a pronoun without an antecedent. In Self-Editing, an Essential Skill Judith B. Glad shares some of the ways she's learned to make her writing tighter, smoother and more interesting. Speaker Bio: A lifelong passion for the written word has led Judith B. Glad into unexpected directions throughout her professional career. While working as an environmental consultant, she occasionally donned a different hat and edited technical reports on such interesting topics as groundwater hydrology and transportation planning. She has judged in regional and national writing contests, has given workshops on self-editing, character development, and use of historical facts in fiction writing, and has written articles on fiction writing, grammar, and word usage. She is currently senior editor at Uncial Press. Judith writes romance because she believes every story should have a happy ending, even if it requires two or three hankies to get there. After swimming upstream in the paper publishing world for too long, she looked to the future and switched to e-publishers, where her books have found happy homes. To date she has sixteen full-length novels and several shorter stories published in various romance sub-genres--because she can't make up her mind which she enjoys writing the most. Her alter egos, Annice Dare and Jaye Watson, write erotica and mysteries. Judith designs book covers on a freelance basis, and has won several awards for her covers, including the Dream Realm Award (twice) and the Quasar for best ebook cover of 2009. Visit Judith's website at http://www.judithbglad.com , where you will find links to her publishers, her cover art, her alter egos, and other odd and wondrous places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEB 2010 Collaging: It’s Not Just a School Art Project (a hands-on workshop) Presenter: Ann Roth Collaging is a popular technique used by fiction writers for plotting, characterization, establishing setting and/or theme. But what if you don't even know what to write about? Your collage may help you answer to that question. In this fun, hour-long workshop, I will share insights and one of my own collages. However most of the time will be spent making individual collages. Ann will provide manila folders for the collages – participants should bring magazines, scissors and glue sticks, stickers, and anything else that works for a collage. Speaker Bio: Award-winning author Ann Roth lives in the greater Seattle area with her husband. After earning an MBA, she worked as a banker and corporate trainer. She gave up the corporate life to write, and if they awarded PhDs in writing happily ever after stories, she'd have one. In 1999 Ann won the prestigious Golden Heart award for unpublished writers for best long contemporary series. Since then she has sold over fifteen novels, both romance and women's fiction, a novella and a serialized online romance. For a list of published novels and other information, visit www.annroth.net. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAN 2010 The Art of Being a God – Building Worlds, from Microbes to Suns Presenters: Minnette Meador and Delilah Marvelle This workshop will show writers how to build a fantasy world from the ground up: Maps and Blueprints: Where do you start?
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