HCRW Member News

Book Signing & Discussion

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:41:24 -0700

Lisa Shearin (Armed & Magical) will be doing a booksigning/discussion with acclaimed fantasy author James Maxey, and award-winning Sci/Fi author Mark L. Van Name on Tuesday, September 9 at 7:00 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in Cary.Tuesday, September 9 at 7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
Cary Commons
760 SE Maynard Rd.
Cary, NC 27511 Lisa says this Barnes & Noble is an awesome location for a booksigning-- she and James had a blast last time they were there. Bring your questions and join them for what promises to be a fun-filled evening!

New Contract

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:40:18 -0700

On July 20, Amy Corwin received word from her editor that Cerridwen Press wishes to contract a new novella she wrote at their request for a traditional Regency Christmas anthology. The anthology will be entitled A Cotillion Country Christmas. The novella is entitled "Christmas Mishaps."CHRISTMAS MISHAPS: Estranged from her sister, Caroline Bartlett decides to seek reconciliation on Christmas. Unfortunately, she ignores the Christmas superstition that says: if a woman is the first person to set foot over the threshold on Christmas day, she brings ill-luck and death for the following year. And as misfortune follows hard upon her heels, her family greets her with bitter anger instead of reconciliation. At her wits end, Caroline reluctantly turns for aide to a younger man, Edward Masters, and she finds he has his own plans for Christmas: love.

Book Club

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:40:18 -0700

The next Romance Book Club meeting will be August 13, 2008 at 7:30pm at the Brier Creek Barnes and Noble. We will discuss Force of Nature by Suzanne Brockmann, number 11 of her Troubleshooters series.

Another New Book Club

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:40:18 -0700

With the help of the manager and friends, Fatin Soufan has started a Romance Book Club at her local Rocky Mount, NC Books-A-Million. First meeting will be August 15th at 7:30pm. She hopes this will be a monthly or bi-monthly event, so stay tuned for further news.

Fatin would love to include promo items from local NC romance authors in the goodie bags/door prizes she plans to do for each meeting. If you're interested and would like to send bookmarks, pens, magnets, etc. to be included in the bags, please contact her.

August Book in a Week Results

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:40:18 -0700

This time around we only had 3 participants and 1 who worked independently. Of the three, Jennifer H. won with 16 new pages for the week. Eileen and Diane C. both had 11 pp.

On her own with an entire sick household, Karen Buse set a goal of 60 pages and exceeded it by 20.

Next Book in a Week challenge will begin Sept. 6. Be thinking about your goals!

Contest Wins and Finals

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:40:18 -0700

Heather McCollum is a finalist in the GRW Maggies Contest (paranormal category) with her manuscript PROPHECY and she also won third place in the Ignite the Flame contest (paranormal) with her manuscript MAGICK. Congratulations, Heather!

May Book in a Week

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:44:31 -0700

Despite the lure of Spring, we had 5 participants for the May Book in a Week Challenge. They managed to produce 87 new pages!

Adele discovered a new way of maximizing production. Before, we'd been relying solely on massive quantities of caffeine to increase output. When Adele went out on the first day of BiaW to work in the yard, she discovered a huge snake lazing about.

That snake stayed put for two days, and Adele decided instead to seat herself in front of her computer -- with terrific results!

Even so it was Sabrina who was our big winner, coming in with 29 new pages. Yay!

Next BiaW begins the 7th of June.

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July Book in a Week Results

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:44:30 -0700

This time we had 10 participants, who managed 340 new pages in all! A lot of people stalled temporarily in that they were plotting when they should have been writing, but it's difficult (for non-pantsers) to write without that underlying structure. As it was, Qaey finished her wip.Poor Karen Buse! She didn't reach but a bit over half her goal... of 200 pages. She finished with 103 new pages for the week and thus was our winner! Must be those Wheaties she claimed she used to tempt her muse. Our next BiaW will commence August 2, which is unfortunately during Nationals.

June Book in a Week Results

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:46:32 -0700

Our June group increased this time to 9 participants, who produced 196 new pages! One person hit and then surpassed their goal for the week (yay, Merle!), and others came mighty close, even with Life pestering them.

Jenna Black, who was working on 3 books, came in as our winner by writing 74 pages! Her reward (other than the pages) was a shiny demon-cat bookmark.

The next Book in a Week will begin July 5th. Why do all these holidays fall during BiaW???

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