Our April 24, 2022 monthly meeting will start at 1:00 P.M. with a workshop presented by best-selling author Pamela Kelley on All Things Book Marketing, which will be followed by our monthly business and social meeting. Not a NERW member but want to attend the workshop? Join NERW now and receive access to our monthly workshops, private email forum, and Facebook group!
Workshop Description: Bestselling author Pamela Kelley will discuss all things book marketing. She will share what she does for every book launch to give it the best chance to succeed. She will show the best way to find the most effective advertising targets. She’ll also share some things you can do that are super effective when you have more time than money–even if your budget is as low as $50. She’ll also answer as many questions as possible.
Bio: Pamela M. Kelley is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of women’s fiction, family sagas, and suspense. Readers often describe her books as feel-good reads with people you’d want as friends.
She lives in a historic seaside town near Cape Cod and just south of Boston. She has always been an avid reader of women’s fiction, romance, mysteries, thrillers and cook books. There’s also a good chance you might get hungry when you read her books as she is a foodie, and occasionally shares a recipe or two.
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Workshop Description: In this workshop participants will gain useful some insight on their own blind spots as well perspectives to consider when they set out to write characters outside of their lived experiences. Participants will also hear about what to consider when looking to write about immigrant communities and what steps to take to execute this with sensitivity and in a manner that is respectful of the characters they aim to bring to life in their stories.
Workshop Description: The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a sprawling storyworld of movies and television shows but, somehow, they’ve layered in incredible and consistent characterization and worldbuilding. Learn how they did it and how those lessons can apply to your series work.
Workshop Description: The Pandemonium of a Pantser, Making the Manuscript out of the Madness is a workshop teaching about the writing style of a panster, someone who writes by the seat of their pants! With so many workshops exploring the craft of plotting, this workshop is designed to provide insight into how a writer who doesn’t plot their stories, can make sense of the story they are building on the fly. With tips on how to edit a free-written story and how to overcome pitfalls and plot-blocks, The Pandemonium of a Pantser, Making the Manuscript out of the Madness will take you on a wild ride where the destination, a finished manuscript is still the same, but with no pre-planning on how to get there!
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Workshop Description: The first three pages of your book are the most important pages you’ll write, whether it’s to entice an agent or editor, or to have someone buy your book once it’s published. But even more important is that first sentence, because if that doesn’t interest anyone, no matter how exciting or sexy, or how much the rest of your story pulls at heart strings, no one will read it. We’re going to look at how to hook those readers and keep them reading, from opening sentence to succeeding scenes and chapters.