writing life

Free Mini Retreat

Many of you know that I teach for various chapters of RWA. Next summer I’ll be offering an online summer writing retreat for OIRWA. To give everyone a preview and offer some writing tips along the way, OIRWA and I have teamed up to offer a free mini-retreat next month. I have a gift for everyone who takes part and there will be some prize drawings during the two week retreat.

Here are the details-

Lesson One-Setting Goals

Lesson Two-Outlining a Plot

Lesson Three-Exercises to Improve Your Dialogue Writing Skills.

Lesson Four-Packing Your Story with Emotion

Lesson Five-Five Tips for Writing an Attention Grabbing synopsis

Lesson Six-Self-Editing Tips

This free class will run from Dec 2^nd to Dec 13^th.

And here’s the sign up form, scroll down until you reach December.

http://www.oirwa.com/forum/campus/

Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested and on your social media accounts.

Hope to see you in class.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and a happy 2017 to everyone.

I took a few weeks to recharge as this year is going to be a busy one.

I’m teaching at least two workshops every month which will be a first for me. I’ll also be trying to get my new coaching and critiquing business up and running and exploring new platforms on which to teach.

Bookwise, I hope to release at least one new title and one revamped title each and every month. I get rights back to about a dozen of my titles with Evernight Publishing and one from Total E-Bound all of which I either plan to rewrite and release as stand alone books or rewrite to fit into one of my current series.

Speaking of which, I’ll be debuting a new series very soon…it’s one of my current WIPs and that’s Cowbear Haven where I’m combing my love of cowboys and bear shifters together.

My next release will be later this month and is titled Erotic Bedtime Stories which is an anthology of some revamped older titles and I’m thinking about adding a brand new one too. Here’s a sneak peek of the cover.

bedtimestories

You’ve probably heard about the closing of All Romance E Books which was actually one of my best markets for sales so if any of you purchased books from the site and are now wondering where to buy my titles, you’ll find them at most online book stores, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and also check them out at Smashwords too.

I’ll be giving the site a major overhaul soon and considering adding some more features for both readers and writers so please let me know what you’d like to see. Are you a writer who’d like tips about breaking into the publishing business? Or are you a reader who’d like to know more about what I’m working on and my writing process?

Don’t be shy and leave a comment because I’d love your input.