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Boot Camp in Buffalo! Join us as we present a full day of hard-core writing instruction to the Western NY RWA chapter on 17 April!
PAST
APPEARANCES
Many
thanks to everyone who made the below boot camps wonderful experiences.
Southwest Florida Romance Writers
in sunny Ft. Myers Florida on 10 January 2009. What a great time, great people, and great all-day workshop! Oak Lawn Libary, Oak Lawn,
Chicago, IL.
This was a great three - hour Novelist's Boot Camp at the Oak
Lawn Public Library .
The 45th
Annual School of the Arts at Rhinelander. From 20-25
July held two bootcamps in Hodag country-- a dozen drills for aspiring
writers and a more advanced workshop for the nearly and newly
published. Thanks to everyone who made these bootcamps in the
Northwoods a success.
Wisconsin
Writers Institute. We held two bootcamps--one
for aspiring writers, one for the nearly and newly published-- at the
prestigious Wisconsin Writers Institute. Madison is a great town and
the Writers Institute is a great weekend! Many thanks to Christine
DeSmet and her staff.
Love is
Murder -- no mystery there. We had a very successful
Boot Camp at the 10th Annual Love is Murder Conference.
Boot
Camp Goes to Indiana.
We traveled to Northern Indiana
on October 20th 2007 for a full day of Boot Camp with the Northwest Indiana Chapter
89 RWA.
Did I meet
you in St. Louis? Our September 8th, 2007 Boot Camp
at the St. Louis Sisters in Crime WritersFest was great. We got to
share the program with Nancy Pickard--cool! The St. Louis SinC put on a
great show, we packed 'em in, and everyone went away happy.
Special thanks to Joanna Slan.
Novelist's
Boot Camp does Dallas! RWA National
Conference, July 13th,
2007. We presented "A dozen dynamite drills from Novelist's Boot Camp."
This one was great fun. We had standing room only with over 70 people,
sold out of copies of Novelist's Boot Camp in the RWA Borders
bookstore, and made loads of new friends. Got invited to do more Boot
Camps around the country.
Boot
Camp in Space! Well, kinda. On 8-10 June we presented a
Novelist's Boot Camp in the Writer's Track of Duckon,
the science fiction readers' and writers' convention, Holiday Inn
Select, in sunny Naperville, IL. Great turnout, strange alien
happenings in the parking lot!
Boot
Camp by the Sea. Chesapeake Romance Writers 2007
Spring Haven RetreatMay 25-27. It was gorgeous along the James River.
Romantic
Times Book Club 27th Annual Convention, April 25-29 2007,
Houston Texas. We held a great Novelist's Boot Camp during RT '07, and
once again it was standing room only! Graduates completed the 2-day, 6
hour course and received their "dog tags," as well as receiving a free,
exclusive, personalized "battle map to success" for writing their
novels! Here's this year's RT graduating class.
These
writers were really hungry for success. The
pair below really wanted to "take a bite out of boot camp" and maybe
the instructor as well!
 
I'm
happy to report that several graduates of our 2006 RT Boot Camp have
put what they learned to use and now have publishing contracts!
Fremont
Library in Mundelein, IL-- We held a mini Boot Camp on March
7th at 6:30 PM. Here's a map to the library.
Skokie
Public Library -- Boot Camp began 17 March
at 10:30. The library is located at 5215 Oakton Street Skokie, Illinois
60077.
Niles
Public Library -- we came back-- through a downpour and high
water--to this great little library at 1830 hrs, that's 6:30 PM to you
civilians, on March 21st.
I
shall return--to Palatine! And did! We stormed ashore at the
Palatine Public Library, 700 N.
North Court Palatine, IL 60067 for a mini Novelist's Boot Camp on
Saturday, March 24th.
Boot
Camp takes Naperville! We had fun at the mini boot camp and
signing at Barnes and Noble bookstore in Naperville, IL. Met a couple
of folks from the Nano writing group. Very cool.
NOVELIST'S BOOT CAMP
at Love
is Murder '07-- This was a blast--standing room only
at the Boot Camp! Love is Murder
(LIMCON) is Chicagoland's premier conference/convention for readers and
writers of mystery, suspense, romantic suspense, thriller, horror, true
crime, and other dark fiction. Always the first weekend in February,
LIMCON is the best value in conferences going and a must-do. See you for our 10 anniversary in 2008!
2-day Mini Boot Camp at the Schaumburg
Library. September 19 and 21, 2006. We had a great time!
Pictures coming soon.
Romantic
Times Book Club 26th Annual Convention, May 16 - 21 2006,
Daytona Beach Florida. What a great conference! We graduated the first
"Boot Camp" class on 18 May. See the graduating class here!
Schaumburg
Authorfest June 24, 2006. Schaumburg, IL has one of the
finest public libraries I've ever seen. Thanks to librarian Susan
Gibberman and to Gottawrite Network's Denise
Fleischer for sponsoring this fine event.
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