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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. 

RWA National Boot Camp

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.

 

 

 

Download the Novelist's Boot Camp Table of Contents and two Drills here!

 

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