Put Your Heart in a Book Conference

NJRW hopes that you will all join us on October 24-25, 2008 at Woodbridge Hotel
and Conference Center in Iselin, NJ. 

Registration opens June 25th!

Registration Fees:

NJRW Members: $180
Non-Members: $200

 

We will be joined by:
Keynote speaker - Lisa Scottoline * Luncheon speaker - Eloisa James
* Special Presentation speaker - JR Ward

Along with workshops by:

Workshops and Speakers

Speaker(s)	Workshop Title
Lori Avocato	Sell Yourself … Sell that Book
Annette Blair	Switching Gears Without Getting Caught in Their Teeth
Pam Burford	Polish That Sucker!
Christine Bush	First Timers' Workshop
Dee Davis & Kathleen O'Reilly	Out of the Garret and Into the Light: Marketing Your Books Through Networking
Karyna DaRosa & Caridad Pineiro	Secrets of Successful Websites
Natalie Duvall & Matt Duvall	Writing Action Scenes the WWE™ Way
Winnie Griggs	Making Every Scene Count
Sue Grimshaw	TBD (Lead Book Buyer for Borders Group)
Shirley Hailstock	What Happened to 24 Hours - Finding Time to Write
Sandra Hill & Trish Jensen	You Gotta Laugh
Elizabeth Hoyt	Sex Scene Viagra
Elizabeth Hoyt	Stalking the Wild Agent
Angela James	Epublishing Savvy 101
Eloisa James	Building and Repairing the Single Title Plot
Virginia Kantra	Sex, Style, and Substance: The Role of Gender in Romance
Mary Kennedy	Writing for Young Adults: From Idea to Publication
Jenna Kernan	Dialogue with Depth
Susan Lyons	Look Who's Talking: Mastering Point of View and Tense
Kasey Michaels	How to Organize a Multi-Book Series Without Losing Your Mind
Susan Meier	Let Conflict Tell Your Story for You
Joy Nash	The Expanding Middle
Teagan Oliver	Creating the Believable Anti-Hero
Nancy Quatrano	Building a Writing Platform
Ramona Richards	Building Your Supporting Cast: How Secondary Characters Can Make or Break a Novel
Ann Roth	He Shot the Sheriff and I Know Why: Motivating your Characters
Patricia Ryan	Hook'em and Hold'em: Crafting a Winning Opener
Caridad Pineiro	Perils and Pitfalls of Publishing Contracts
Penny Sansevieri	Red Hot Internet Publicity
Lisa Scottoline	How to Write a Novel
Mary Sue Seymour	Killer Queries
Kathryn Smith	The People in Your Head: Giving Life to Characters
Pamelia Stratton	Inside the FBI
JR Ward	Special Presentation: Chat with JR Ward
Michelle Wolfson	Perfect Your Pitch
Plus	An Editors Panel and an Agents Panel

If you have questions please contact:
Michele Richter & Rayna Vause at confchair@njromancewriters.org

For registration questions contact:
Kathy Fawcett & Christine Clemetson at registrar@njromancewriters.org

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Click here to order CDs from the 2006 conference.

To order CDs of the workshops in the 2007 conference, click here.

 

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