Showing posts with label March. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March. Show all posts

Friday, February 20, 2026

March 2025 Meeting Information

 

Join us Saturday, March 21, 2026, 11am

La Hacienda Ranch Restaurant in Colleyville for

Dawn Alexander presenting

Beyond the Bedroom:
Using Physical and Emotional Intimacy

to Create Authentic Character Relationships

Creating authentic character relationships is essential in every genre—whether you're crafting a swoon-worthy romance, developing a fierce rivalry, or building a deep friendship. In this workshop, we'll explore how to layer both physical and emotional intimacy from first glance to Happily Ever After. You'll leave with a clear guide for developing believable relationships that resonate with readers and intensify the emotional engagement of your story.

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Dawn Alexander is a developmental editor and story coach who collaborates with both emerging writers and accomplished authors to strengthen their stories and refine their voices. Her clients have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, as well as the Amazon Top 100.

Leveraging her two decades of experience in education, she designs and teaches writing courses that offer comprehensive insights and practical strategies that can be applied across genres to create compelling plots and authentic characters.

She's been a featured speaker at Inkers Con, Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, and local writing chapters, in addition to providing one-on-one coaching to numerous successful authors.

When she's not analyzing plot structures or crafting characters, you can find her spending time with her two college-age kids or off-roading in her Jeep Wrangler with her husband and their dog, Teddy.

 

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

March 2025 Meeting Information

 

Join us Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 11am

at La Hacienda Ranch Restaurant in Colleyville for

Sarah Gamez Hamilton

Finding Your Niche

Being an author is a lot like throwing spaghetti at a wall and trying to figure out what sticks. You've published but where are the readers? In this interactive class, we'll talk about discovering your writing lane, getting to readers with "fan potential" and leveraging your strengths as a writer. We'll also address things like tricks learned from big publishing houses, social media - is it really worth it? - and the biggest missteps you might be making with readers. Best of all, let's get your books in the right hands!

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Sarah Gamez is a writer, podcaster, and romantic optimist at heart. While working carving out her own writing path, she created "Romancing the Story" a writer and reader geared podcast where she interviews storytellers about their highs, lows, and things they've learned along the way, featuring everyone from local authors to NYT bestsellers to a movie producer! Her passion for creating detailed plots has resulted in taking far too long to complete a novel, but she's working to remedy that!

 

Thursday, February 22, 2024

March 2024 Meeting Information

 

Copyright and Contracts

Join USA Today Bestselling Author and lawyer Lauren Smith as she provides you an overview of what all authors need to know about copyrights, contracts, the role of agents, advance offers, trademarks and subsidiary rights. This workshop will benefit all writers, new and seasoned, as well as traditional and indie published authors.