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Recent Meetings and Events
Meetings held from 10:00-3:00 the second Saturday of each month. More info. Upcoming Events.
2010
January
AM: Lori Sanders-Foley, Sandy Coburn, and Kristi Lewandowski
"Stacking the Deck...a helping hand for characters, plots, and blank pages"
PM: Robenette
"12 Sun Signs terms of description both temperament and physical appearance"
February
Nephele Tempest, the Knight Agency
March
Jeanie LeGendre
April
Morning Workshop: Everything You Need to Know about Track Changes. NYTimes bestselling author and computer whiz, C.L. Wilson will conduct a training session on the basics of using Track Changes to judge our contest, do online critiques and even do edits with a publisher. This mysterious MS Word feature will be explained! Bring a laptop if you have it...fully charged, as the room doesn’t have enough plugs for everyone.
Afternoon Workshop: Contest chairperson Anne-Marie Carroll and Judge’s Coordinator Julie Leto discuss the ins and outs of being the best contest judge you can—and entrant! They’ll break down the whole judging process and discuss the basics of wowing contest judges, agents and editors with your awesome opening chapter.
May
Morning Session: Julie Leto, Kathy Carmichael, and Cheryl Wilson
Professionalism in Publishing: What It Really Means. Three multi-published authors discuss the realities of the business and what an aspiring or newly published author must do (or not do!) to be considered a professional by her peers and colleagues.
Afternoon Session: The Muse is a Lazy....Lady. Lorena Streeter
How to keep creative blocks from ruining—or running—your career. Learn how to nurture the creative process and how to carry on even when creativity seems to be absent.
June
Karen Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of LOIS LANE TELLS ALL, will speak to TARA Members Only on the following topics:
HOW TO DEVELOP SPARKLY SECONDARY CHARACTERS:
With one quick swipe of your editing diamond cutter, learn how to carve glittering personalities for your secondary characters and really make them SHINE!
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? HOW TO STRENGTHEN (AND FIND) YOUR VOICE:
Editors crave it, readers clamor for it, no one can define it, but a good romance writer has a really BIG one! Strengthen (and FIND) your voice with some colorful and fun group exercises.
The February day workshop, June day workshop and December 2010 holiday party are members only.
2009
January
Kathy Carmichael in the morning and Betina Krahn in the afternoon
February
PAN / Members only workshop with Joan Johnston
March
Author panel in the morning and Terri Garey in the afternoon, speaking on "Dancing On The Head of a Pen: Adapting To Changes In the Publishing Industry."
April
Judges training in the morning and Debby Mayne in the afternoon
May
Karen Rose in the morning and Martin Hafer in the afternoon
June
PAN workshop with Sue Grimshaw of Borders
July
Birds of a Feather
August
National Recap in the morning
September
Mary Lou Keller
Frank M. Ahearn & Elieen C. Horan
October
Rachel Hauck
Lee Duncan
November
TARA Members Retreat
December
TARA Holiday Party
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