Author: Carla Swafford, Author

Carla Swafford loves romance novels, action/adventure movies, and men, and her books reflect that. And that’s not all, she’s crazy about hockey. She’s married to her high school sweetheart and lives in the Southeastern U.S.

October 2024 Program & Presentation

Presentation:

Maria Grace, six time BRAG Medallion Honoree, #1 Best-selling Historical Fantasy author Maria Grace has her PhD in Educational Psychology and is a 16-year veteran of the university classroom where she taught courses in human growth and development, learning, test development and counseling. https://austenvariations.com/maria-grace/ (Per her website)

Capture Your Reader in Your World

Readers read for escape and to feel. The means of escape and the feelings they desire depend on the genre, but in the end, readers want the same thing: An immersive world and characters to lose themselves in.

As we concentrate on characters and plot, it can be easy to short change the setting. But when that happens, the real world too easily distracts readers from the story world. Creating immersive, atmospheric settings is a first step to creating a world that the reader doesn’t want to leave.

In this workshop we will cover how to develop engrossing worlds through the use of POV, narrative distance, research (and how not to get lost in that rabbit hole!), sensory details, and the creation of deliberate memory tags for readers.

September 2024 Meeting & Presentation

Presentation:

We will be practicing and going over the October Fiction Writing Workshop (10/19) scheduled for the North Shelby Library. Please attend. You will certainly learn a lot about writing and one of the subjects may be of special interest to you. And we are certainly open for suggestions. For more information about the Library’s program that will be on October 19, click here: https://northshelby.librarycalendar.com/event/nanowrimo-event-11944

April 2024 Special Workshop

Special Event – Workshop
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Future Presentations Scheduled

May – Jo Chambliss

June – NYT bestselling author Linda Howard presents 12 Steps To Intimacy

March 2024 Meeting & Program

PROGRAM: Lynn Raye Harris to speak to the chapter via Zoom about sustaining indie publishing.

From her website: (https://lynnrayeharris.com/about/)

Lynn Raye Harris is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the HOSTILE OPERATIONS TEAM SERIES of military romances as well as 20 books for Harlequin Presents. A former finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award and the National Readers Choice Award, Lynn lives in Alabama with her handsome former-military husband, two crazy cats, and one spoiled American Saddlebred horse. Lynn’s books have been called “exceptional and emotional,” “intense,” and “sizzling.” Lynn’s books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide.