Monday, Sep. 8

"Gear Your Writing Genre to Your Personality"
RAY LINDER, Author/Personality-Based Coach

Are you drawn to ideas or facts? Imaginative possibilities or real events? Inspire the heart or inform the mind? Discover your own writing personality and how stretching outside your comfort zone can make you a better writer. Through personality-based coaching, RAY LINDER has impacted more than 10,000 individuals in Fortune 100 companies, the military, and U.S. government. He is author of three books, including What Will I Do with My Money: How Your Personality Affects Your Financial Behavior, as well as articles in Focus on the Family, Leadership Magazine, and The Bulletin of Psychological Type.

http://www.goodstewardship.com/

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Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008
CREATED WORD CHRISTIAN WRITERS SEMINAR
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Church of the Epiphany, Herndon, VA

Early Bird/Members: $35 (before August 30, 2008)
Early Bird/Non-Members: $40 (before August 30, 2008)

Capital Christian Writers and Northern Virginia Christian Writers Fellowship are pleased to announce their 2008 fall seminar featuring Christian suspense novelist Wanda Dyson who will lead a two-part, hands-on fiction workshop. Also Melanie Rigney, former editor of Writers Digest, will provide an overview of the non-fiction market in two parts. Topics include articles, essays, memoirs, and more. One-on-one paid critiques available with Candice Speare, (fiction) content editor/cozy mystery writer and Lori Smith, (nonfiction) freelance writer/memoir author. Thirty minute sessions/$30.

For more information email Betsy Dill at ccwriters@gmail.com.

SCHEDULE

8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Check-in 9:00 - 10:00 Worship, Message 10:00 - 12:00 Workshop-Part 1 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 3:00 Workshop–Part 2 3:00 - 3:30 Wrap-Up, time of commitment, dismissal.

Pricing Members: $35 (before August 30, 2008) Non-Members: $40 (before August 30)

Members: $40 (before November 1, 2008) Non-Members: $45 (before November 1)

SPEAKERS

FICTION: Wanda Dyson, Novelist http://www.wandadyson.com/ Wanda Dyson sold her first suspense novel before she wrote it. Then she sold two more on proposal only. Then went on to write a non-fiction book that was picked up by Oprah for an exclusive release. While writing that book, she was approached by a major publisher to submit an idea for another three-book suspense series, which was contracted by Random House/Waterbrook. She is also cofounder of http://www.KeepMeInSuspense.com the website for writing mysteries, suspense, and thrillers.

NONFICTION: Melanie Rigney, Writer, Speaker, Editor http://www.editorforyou.com Rigney has more than thirty years of experience in the communications and publishing industry. In the past four years, her business, Editor for You, has provided more than two hundred authors and agents with manuscript evaluation and editing services. Melanie spent nearly five years as the editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, including a year with Writer’s Digest Books. Earlier, she worked for Advertising Age magazine, and United Press International among others.

PAID PROFESSIONAL CRITIQUES 30 min./$30 -Lori Smith-NONFICTION, professional freelance writer, author of A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey into Adventure, Love and Faith and The Single Truth.

-Candice Speare-FICTION, content reviewer for Heartsong's cozy mysteries line, author of three cozys, co-founder of www.KeepMeInSuspense.com, and cofounder of http://www.rswritingservices.com "The Author's Law Enforcement Resource for Writing Crime Fiction, Suspense, and Mystery"

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Monday, Nov. 10

"Making the Past Present"
Siri Mitchell, Novelist

Come learn the who, what, where, why, and how of writing historicals with wholly authentic characters that are both true to their time and engaging to readers.

Siri Mitchell accumulated 153 rejections before signing with a publisher. During the process, she vowed never to write another word again. Ever. She even threatened to shred her manuscripts. But two of her novels, Chateau of Echoes and The Cubicle Next Door, became Christy Award finalists. Mitchell's sixth published novel, A Constant Heart (October 2008), is the first of three historical novels contracted with Bethany House.

Mitchell has been called one of the clearest, most original voices in the CBA.

http://sirimitchell.com/index.html

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Monday, Jan. 12, 2009

"Avoid Death by Rejection:
Spot Fatal Flaws in Your Fiction"
Candice Speare & Glenn Rambo

Do you write suspense and mystery? Have you ever wondered whether your crime scenario is believable? Or whether your cops are acting like cops and not actors in a bad television program? Learn to identify crime scene and police investigative procedure flaws in your manuscript and avoid the ultimate fatality: death by editor or reader rejection.

Glenn Rambo is a published author with 20 years of law enforcement experience. Candice Speare is a freelance content reviewer for Heartsong Presents: Mysteries! as well as being the author of two cozy mysteries released 2008. Glenn and Candice are the RS in RS Writing Services, a hands-on consulting business that gives writers the personalized help they need to get their facts right in their crime, suspense, and mystery fiction.

www.glennrambo.com
www.candicemillerspeare.com
www.rswritingservices.com

Capital Christian Writers meets from 7 to 9 p.m. on the second Monday of ODD numbered months, year-round, in The Gunnell House at Truro Church, 10520 Main St. in Fairfax, Virginia.