AN INTERVIEW WITH JEAN C. GORDON by Thomasine Rappold As a founding member of the Capital Region Romance Writers, Jean C. Gordon has been instrumental in growing the chapter. Through the years, she’s remained an active member, serving on the board for several terms, volunteering on committees and panels, and …
Our members had another great month. Jean C. Gordon signed a new three book contract with Love Inspired. The working title of the first book is Winning The Teacher’s Heart. Also, her book Small-Town Mom is being released in print in South Africa. Jeanette Grey sold her fifth book to …
Join us this Saturday, May 10, 2014, for exciting program on “How to Edit Like a Pro”, presenting by Entangled Publishing Founder Liz Pelletier. In order to allow maximum time for the workshop, we will be operating under a special, abbreviated schedule: 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.: Drop-in critique group. Any interested …
Our members had another productive month. Please join us in celebrating their accomplishments! Rebecca Grace Allen finished revisions on her novel and resubmitted it. Anna C. Bowling‘s post on the How I Met Your Mother finale was one of Heroes and Heartbreakers’ top five posts for the week of April …
Join us Saturday, April 12, 2014 at the East Greenbush Library for an exciting program with best-selling author Dee Davis. Her workshop is entitled, “From Once Upon A Time To Happily Ever After,” and it will focus on structural guidelines for building a novel. Please note that we will operate on …
Our authors had another great month in March! Lisa Lewis finished the first draft of a new contemporary novella. Jean C. Gordon‘s books Bachelor Father and His Lady Viking are now available for free to Scribd members. Marie Lark contracted her second book in a series, Stripped Down. Tim Farley …
At our March meeting, we took time out to celebrate our authors’ achievements. In the past year alone, of our 30 members: 13 completed a manuscript 10 sold a manuscript 4 joined RWA’s PRO community 2 joined RWA’s PAN community 2 self-published books 3 contracted with an agent 7 received requests …
Our March meeting is just around the corner! We have lots of exciting things planned: Noon to 1:00 pm: Our new critique group will meet. Anyone interested in being matched with a critique partner is encouraged to attend 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Business meeting 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.: Celebration to …
Special congratulation to CR-RWA member Rebecca Grace Allen, who sold her first novella to Samhain Publishing last month! All of our members have had an amazing year — whether they published books, landed agents, finished manuscripts, or just continued in that daunting task of following their dreams by writing, writing, …
Please join us on February 8, 2014, when Jennifer Kettell will present an informative workshop on Scrivener. Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping …