Lori Corsentino's Blog (18)

Our 2013 AOE finalists will be announced at the Saturday, April 13th meeting! We're really excited to share this year's finalists, and may have a VERY pleasant surprise for a CRW member or two who entered the contest.

Hopefully everyone can be there. We've got a great program with Courtney Milan, and book reading from a new author. So it proves to be a great day!

Speaking for my fellow Coordinators Aimee, Tiffany, and Jen, I say we all hope to see you…

Due to the inclement weather, the Saturday, March 9th meeting has been postponed and rescheduled one week to Saturday, March 16th.

Stay home and safe today! 

Welcome Catherine Chant, a very popular online workshop instructor! We're lucky to have her in March teaching "How to Design and Teach an Online Workshop."

It all begins March 4th! Be sure to visit our online workshops page and check out our offerings for the month!

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Hi Catherine - welcome to CRWs blog!

How long have you been teaching…

I want to welcome to Tina Gerow, one of our fabulous instructors for the March Online Workshop Series! Tina is teaching her workshop, "I'm Back From Writing Conference: What Do I Do Now?" in March. You're probably asking yourself, "What exactly does that mean?"

Well, Tina will be sharing what she's learned from her own conference experiences and will help you to make the most of your own, giving you tools to ensure a good return on your investment. Sounds…

THE WORD-LENGTH HEALTHY MANUSCRIPT

Beth Daniels, aka Beth Henderson, J.B. Dane

It’s an old story really, one writers deal with constantly. We either don’t have enough words in a manuscript, or we’ve got too many in it.

THE ANOREXIC MANUSCRIPT

The draft is done, the tale is told and the word count tally says you’ve got…oh, dear, a…

A Character’s Skill Set: Does Your Character Have What It Takes?

Each of the first-born must compete for the hand of the fair maiden.

Queen Elinor

I am Merida, and I’ll be shooting for my own hand.

Princess Merida

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Please note the location for the January 12th Meeting has changed.

We will be meeting at the Anythinks Library on Huron Street. (I-25 and Thornton Parkway)

Address:
Anythink Huron Street
9417 Huron St.
Thornton, CO 80260
(303) 452-7534

See map:
https://maps.google.com/?q=39.866745+-104.997944+


Thank you and spread the news!

Summer Vierra

Attention Published Authors!

December is THE month to enter the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence Contest! Not only will you have the chance to get your work in front of some new and influential readers, but you'll be saving $5.00 with the early submission entry fee until December 31st! Starting in January, the entry fee will increase to $20.00.

We have some great judges this year, including published authors and members of reading groups, so be sure to send your…

The votes are in! Your 2013 Board is:

• President – Hillary Seidl
• Vice President – Aimee Denham (w/a Amy Denim)
• Secretary – Heather Sands (w/a Heather Lire)
• Treasurer – Micky Inoue (w/a Micky Ingram)
• Membership Liaison – Summer Vierra (w/a Summer Mahan)

Congratulations to all members who were elected to these vital positions. We…

It is my pleasure to announce the 2013 Award of Excellence contest for published authors launched today! We're very excited for this year's contest. We've changed things up a bit this year, including:

• Adding a new category - Young Adult - to bring this newest trend to our regular readers
• Offering a early entry discount - the fee is $15.00 if you enter early and your books arrive by December 31, 2012
• Extending the deadline through January 31st - so there's no…

A new tab, Socializing has been created to house the Chat Room, Groups, and Forum options. These have been moved from their original home in Community.

Please note their new location! For more details, see the Community News option under Community.

Any questions - feel free to contact me offline.

Lori

Have you heard the latest?

To keep updated on the happenings within the group, be sure to check out the CRW News! We've got CRW and industry news, on two different channels...er tabs!

• The News tab is viewable by everyone and has relevant CRW news to share with the world.
• For members only, check the Community…

Be sure to visit the Workshops tab to see the online classes for the second half of 2012!

Coming up quickly in June is a great class for learning more about editing your work. Check out Tips and Techniques for More Effective Proofreading!  Also, share it with your friends and other loops. Use the content below to share.

We really appreciate you helping spread the word about this…

Hi All -

I want to announce a new set of meetings for people interested in joining a critique group. Anyone that is interested in a critique group is encouraged to attend.

All meetings will be held in the website Chatroom.To gain access, hover over the Community tab and select the Chatroom option from the drop-down listing.

The first meeting will be held on Sunday, March 11th at 1:00pm. The second will be held on Thursday, March 15th at 7:00pm.

Feel free to attend…

We had a busy meeting on Saturday, February 11, 2012! There was some discussion on how to provide our members additional opportunities to receive a free meeting, while resurrecting some newsletter content that we all miss!

What was decided is if a member does a recap of the afternoon's workshop, or if a published author member write an "In My Opinion" article for the newsletter, they can attend their next meeting free!

To get involved, contact…

Happy Wednesday All!

Wow! We've sure go a lot to cheer about lately in our group. There were two releases this week -- Jenn LeBlanc's 5th installment of her "The Rake and The Recluse" illustrated novels and "Satin Pleasures," Karen Docter's premier novel. Both were available in eBook starting February 14th.

And in the coming weeks, we've got even more releases!

If you have some good (or not so goo) news you want to share with your chapter mates, and you didn't make it to…

Hi!

I'm so excited! I wanted to let everyone know that I've launched my first Manic Monday blog entry with a nice entry on romance authors and their male cover model muses. Those hot men and their 6-pack abs sure make me manic...in a good way!

Our very own Jenn LeBlanc is featured, and will also be guest blogging this coming Wednesday, February 15th for the launch of my Wicked Wednesday entries! That should be a wicked-good day!

Come on by at…

Hi All -

This is a repeat of the Yahoo message. So for those of you that read the Yahoo list and the website too - yes, you are seeing double!

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I neglected to mention in the original blog posting that I need everyone interested in the Critique Groups to fill in a Critique Application form. This will help me to better organize and schedule things. If you have not already filled in a form, please do…