November 10th – Sharon Sala
On November 10th, we bring Sharon Sala…
West Houston RWA is taking the year out with a BANG with Best Selling Author Sharon Sala.For this all day meeting, Sharon will present in the morning “How To Write Yourself Out of A Corner”. All writers end up at both ends of the writer’s seesaw at some point. Have you ever had a story and characters come alive for you – and simply slathered and stroked words onto the page until you found yourself painted into the proverbial plot corner? Or even worse, have you ever stared at an empty and blank computer screen with an even emptier and blanker creative mind’s eye? At our November meeting, Sharon Sala will give us her overview of how to “fix” plot problems and writer’s block.
Sharon will continue in the afternoon with “Coloring Outside of the Lines”. Which one of us hasn’t had an agent, editor or contest judge tell us we “can’t” use a character, a setting, a story line – or a writing technique – because it will make our work unmarketable? Come out and listen to Sharon Sala demonstrate when and how to “break the rules” and make it work.
The workshop will run from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM (More information on Schedule). Lunch will be included in the cost of the workshop $20 for WHRWA members, $30 for non-members. (Register here.) Sharon will be signing her latest releases at the meeting, which will be held at the Memorial Drive Christian Church, 11750 Memorial Drive, Houston, 77024 (map via yahoo).
With 70 plus books in print, award winning author Sharon Sala, who also writes as Dinah McCall, still has to remind herself from time to time that this isn’t a dream. She learned to read at the age of four and has had her nose in a book ever since. Her introduction into romance came at an early age through the stories of Zane Gray, Grace Livingston Hill and Emily Loring. Her pride in contributing to the genre is echoed by the letters of her fans. First published in 1991, she’s now a five-time RITA finalist, Winner of the Janet Dailey Award, four-time Career Achievement winner from Romantic Times Magazine, five time winner of the National Reader’s Choice Award and five time winner of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence, as well as numerous other industry awards. Her books are regularly on bestseller lists, such as the New York Times , USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, WaldenBooks mass market, and many others. She claims that, for her, learning to read was a matter of evolution, but learning to write and then being published was a revolution. It changed her life, her world, and her fate.
Tentative Schedule for November 10th:
8:30-9:00 -> Registration and coffee
9:00-9:45 -> Business Meeting with Pal Reviews
9:45-10:15 -> Coffee and Social Break
10:15-11:45 -> “How To Write Yourself Out of A Corner”
11:45-12:15 -> Introductions
12:15-1:30 -> Lunch and Booksigning with Sharon Sala and local authors
1:30-3:00 -> “Coloring Outside of the Lines”
