Here are the Mills & Boon Events planned to coincide with SYTYCW, which begins on 17th September.
Tuesday 18th September, 7pm
Event Leader: Liz Fielding
MELKSHAM LIBRARY, Lowbourne, Melksham, Trowbridge, SN12 7DZ
Please call 01225 702039 to book your place.
Read Liz Fielding's titles before the workshop!
LIZ FIELDING'S LITTLE BOOK OF WRITING ROMANCE
FLIRTING WITH ITALIAN
BOMBSHELL FOR THE BOSS
Wednesday 19th September, 6pm
Event Leader: Heidi Rice
ISLINGTON LIBRARY, Central Library, 2 Fieldway Crescent, London, N5 1PF
For more information please call 020 7527 6953 or email Shari.Green@islington.gov.uk.
Read Heidi Rice's titles before the workshop!
CUPCAKES AND KILLER HEELS
PS I'M PREGNANT!
Friday 21st September, 5.30pm-7pm
Event Leader: Sharon Kendrick
VICTORIA LIBRARY, 160 Buckingham Palace Road, City of Westminster, London, SW1W 9UD
Please call 020 7641 1300 to book your place or email afarrell@westminster.gov.uk
Read Sharon Kendrick's titles before the workshop!
PRICELESS
A TAINTED BEAUTY
Friday 21st September, 6.30pm for a 7pm start
Event Leader: Heidi Rice
KENTISH TOWN LIBRARY, 262-266 Kentish Town Road, London, NW5 2AA
Please call 020 7974 8515 to book your place or email Peter.Baxter@camden.gov.uk.
Read Heidi Rice's titles before the workshop!
CUPCAKES AND KILLER HEELS
PS I'M PREGNANT!
Saturday 22nd September 2pm
Event Leader: Fiona Harper
BROMLEY CENTRAL LIBRARY, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1EX
Please email Janet.Pullan@bexley.gov.uk to book your place.
Read Fiona Harper's titles before the workshop!
THREE BLIND-DATE BRIDES
AT HIS SERVICE: CINDERELLA'S HOUSEKEEPER
Tuesday 25th September 6.30-8pm
Event Leader: Sharon Kendrick
MAYFAIR LIBRARY, 25 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London W1K 2PB
Please email kblench@westminster.gov.uk to book your place.
Read Sharon Kendrick's titles before the workshop!
PRICELESS
A TAINTED BEAUTY
Thursday 27th September 6pm-7.45pm
Event Leader: Anne Fraser
HILLHEAD LIBRARY, 348 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8AP
To book your place on the writing workshop, please call 0141 276 1617 or email Carol.Maclaren@glasgowlife.org.uk.
Read Anne Fraser's titles before the workshop!
AT HIS SERVICE: HER BOSS THE HERO
HER MOTHERHOOD WISH
Saturday 29th September 10am-12.30pm
Event Leader: Joanna Fulford
CHESTERFIELD LIBRARY, New Beetwell Street, Chesterfield, S40 1QN
To book your place on the writing workshop, please call 01629 533 400 or email Wendy.Kurcewicz@derbyshire.gov.uk.
Read Joanna Fulford's titles before the workshop!
THE VIKING'S TOUCH
HIS COUNTERFEIT CONDESSA
Showing posts with label writing workshops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing workshops. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Thursday, September 29, 2011
A BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY
I am very fortunate in that I live close to the amazing crime writer, Sally Spedding - stories to raise the hair on the back on your neck - and she recently ran a three day course on Writing Crime with a Difference at the lovely on Huguenot mansion, Glynhir, which is a couple of miles down the road.
Why crime?
Writers do need to stretch themselves, give the imagination a workout, from time to time. And I love reading crime, watch crime drama on the television and - like every other writer I know - I have a book in my bottom drawer that keeps calling to me. So I gave it day out.
There were ten of us including the French Consul, a criminal psychologist, a criminal lawyer and some fabulously talented writers who could write wonderful stuff at the drop of a hat. That's something published writers never have to do. Write something and then read it aloud to total strangers. Something I have never done, since I never belonged to a writing group, or had a crit partner before I was published. Deeply, deeply, scary.
I had to produce my hero and his Nemesis - and have them confront each other. I had to write about the motivation of two of my characters. And I had to write a prologue.
This was difficult. My idea of crime writing is more Janet Evanovitch than P D James and the opening of my book is very "women's fiction", but there is a crime in the present that is fired by something dark and horrible that happened in the past. And wow. Suddenly I was thinking about my story on a whole new level. The prologue I wrote was rubbish, but I was there at that moment in the past and it is so perfect start for the story that I'm bubbling with enthusiasm again.
And if any of you write crime and need someone to read your novel, Sally charges a very reasonable £100 for a detailed critique of a full length ms. You can get in touch with her via her website.
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