I am now an old-timer. I realized this last weekend, at the Colorado Gold conference, and the new-found awareness of the role is a bit daunting. Twenty years ago, I attended my first RMFW conference. I was new to RMFW, having joined earlier in the year after hearing a published member’s presentation on how supportive…
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Lesson Two: Where to start? Point of View, Setting and World Building
By Jeanne C. Stein The topics we’re going to cover today involve some basics of storytelling. In fact to some of you, this may be nothing but review. Especially if you were lucky enough to attend last weekend’s conference. It’s the first one in the seventeen years I’ve been a member of RMFW that I…
Back Off, Man – I’m a Scientist!
By Jeffe Kennedy This is release week for Rogue’s Paradise, the third book in my Covenant of Thorns trilogy. The first book, Rogue’s Pawn, came out just over two years ago, in July of 2012. It was the first novel I wrote and first published – which took a long time, as the genre of…
5 Ways to Improve Your Sex Life: A Recap of the 2014 RMFW Conference
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer One of the things I learned this past weekend at the RMFW conference was how to draw your attention. Pat (my amazing, fabulous, awesome co-editor) and I had a brief discussion on blog headlines and titles. We decided and I’m thinking rightly so, not to cheat and lie to our readers…
How to Grow a Novel
By Barbara Graham Probably because I’m in the midst of trying to get my garden to produce something other than really healthy weeds, and my next book is in the formative stage, the comparison between gardening and writing a novel seemed ideal. After all, they both start with high hopes and big plans. Each beginning…