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  So you’ve written a book and friends love it, but how do you reach a wider audience? At our next meeting, speaker, author, and filmmaker Chris Hennessy will share how to master promoting your work in today’s world of social media. His presentation includes...

We all grew up on picture books. We enjoyed the illustrations before we learned how to read the words. Only years later did we realize that crafting the latter requires as much painstaking skill as drawing the former. Brevity brings forth brilliance. The seamless...

Whether your focus is fiction, non-fiction, novels, or magazine pieces, or you're working on a biography or your autobiography—it's all writing!! And all writing involves research, interviews, organization, editing, and an opening that will make the reader want to...

It has been noted that your dialogue is white-hot when your characters stop speaking to you and start speaking to each other. How can you get there? The process cannot be rushed. Before you kill your darlings, you must cultivate them. You must walk in each one's...

Whether you’re writing a memoir, considering it, or working on a book of fiction, don’t miss our next meeting on Crafting a Powerful Memoir. In February, award-winning author and memoirist, Eleanor Vincent will explain the key ingredient that will transforms your...

Have you overlooked an approach to plot that could elevate your work and possibly make it a bestseller? What do classics like Moby Dick, Grapes of Wrath, The Odyssey, and the movie Jaws have in common that engage the audience? Learn how to envision your story in a new...