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March Workshop: Down, Dirty and Quick Plotting Bootcamp

Join us online March 1-28, 2010 for Down, Dirty and Quick Plotting Bootcamp with Raquel Rodriguez

Don't have time for extraneous plotting details and need character and/or scene help quick? This "Boot Camp" style workshop will give you all the basics and how to structure your story quickly from beginning to end. This bare bones, no-frills plotting nitty-gritty approach to getting the story outline done takes a different look at how to accomplish the exact same objectives as other plotting courses without the extra details. Hook your reader from the first sentence, get the action in there, and keep them reading. No more sagging or meandering middles. Your characters will have depth and dimension, and you'll even be able to put a complete synopsis together in 30 minutes or less. Shape up your ideas into a viable outline and get it done.

Registration deadline: February 24, 2010; FREE to FTHRW members; $20.00 for all others

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Sandy James' novel TURNING THIRTY-TWELVE (BookStrand) is the winner for Best Contemporary Romance of 2009 in the Aspen Gold Readers Choice Contest.

Dawn Wolzein(w/a Dawn Marie Hamilton)'s SEA PANTHER placed 2nd in the FF&P category of the 2009 Hot Prospects Contest sponsored by Valley of the Sun Romance Writers.

Gabrielle Luthy's LEARNING NOW TO STAY is a finalist in the SpaceCoast's Launching A Star contest. Her manuscript THE LAKE EFFECT is a finalist in the Golden Rose and Launching A Star.

Judi Phillips (w/a Pepper Goodrich) has sold MERRIE'S CHRISTMAS, a hot Christmas adventure in Jamaica, to Whispers Publishing. It will be released December 17.

Sandy James's novels MURPHY'S LAW and FREE FALLING are both EPIC finalists.

Gwen Hernandez's COUNTING ON YOU placed FIRST in the Contemporary category of the 2009 Heart-to-Heart contest sponsored by the San Francisco Area Romance Writers, and Gwen received her Pro Pin on November 13, 2009.

Dawn Wolzein (w/a Dawn Marie Hamilton)'s synopsis for SEA PANTHER received FIRST place in the paranormal romance category of the 2009 MERWA Synopsis Writing Contest.

Ami Weaver's manuscript aimed at Superromance, AN ACCIDENTAL FAMILY, finaled in the 2009 GRW Unpublished Maggie Awards in Contemporary Series.

Linda Warren's TEXAS HEIR (Harlequin American) won Bookbuyer's Best Award in short contemporary, and it was chosen "Top Pick" by Sue Grimshaw of Borders Inc.

Sandy James' TURNING THIRTY-TWELVE (BookStrand) is a finalist in the Aspen Gold Readers Choice contest.

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K.M. Daughters – CAPTURING KARMA (Book 3, The Sullivan Boys Series) – January 2010, The Wild Rose Press

Linda Warren – MAIDSON'S CHILDREN – October 2009, Harlequin Superromance

Jean Adams – ETERNAL HEARTS – October 2009, Highland Press

Terry Spear – TO TEMPT THE WOLF – September 2009, Sourcebooks

J L Wilson – NOWHERE TO RUN – September 2009, Resplendence Publishing; and MAYHEM, MARRIAGE AND MURDEROUS MYSTERY MANUSCRIPTS – June 2009, The Wild Rose Press

Jane Leopold Quinn – HOT UNDER THE COLLAR – September 2009, Red Rose; Windy City Love Affair: METROPOLITAN PASSIONS VOLUME 2 (anthology) – July 2009, Phaze; and MERCENARY DESIRES – July 2009, Siren

Sandy James – FAITH OF THE HEART (Damaged Heroes 4) – September 2009, BookStrand

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