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General Meeting ~ Sept 16, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
Speaker: Gail Gaymer Martin
Deepen Story and Grab Readers: This workshop covers techniques to deepen POV and characterization so a third person story becomes as intimate as a first person novel. Methods of using more intimate details through dialogue, introspection and emotions. Methods of heightening the story are explained through plotting and pacing.
Award-winning author, Gail Gaymer Martin, writes romantic suspense, romance; she has written fiction for Love Inspired and Barbour Publishing and is now with Winged Publications. Gail has 4 million books sold. Her books have received numerous national awards including: Romantic Times Reviewers Choice and the American Christian Fiction Writers Carol for her romantic suspense, A Love for Safekeeping. Gail's novel The Christmas Kite, a Holt Medallion finalist, was optioned for a Hallmark television movie. She was awarded 2009 Heartsong Presents Author of the Year, and CBS local news listed Gail as one of the top four writers in the Detroit area. Gail is the author of Writer's Digest, Writing The Christian Romance. She is a founder of American Christian Fiction Writers and is a well-known keynote speaker.
Speaker: Gail Gaymer Martin
Deepen Story and Grab Readers: This workshop covers techniques to deepen POV and characterization so a third person story becomes as intimate as a first person novel. Methods of using more intimate details through dialogue, introspection and emotions. Methods of heightening the story are explained through plotting and pacing.
Award-winning author, Gail Gaymer Martin, writes romantic suspense, romance; she has written fiction for Love Inspired and Barbour Publishing and is now with Winged Publications. Gail has 4 million books sold. Her books have received numerous national awards including: Romantic Times Reviewers Choice and the American Christian Fiction Writers Carol for her romantic suspense, A Love for Safekeeping. Gail's novel The Christmas Kite, a Holt Medallion finalist, was optioned for a Hallmark television movie. She was awarded 2009 Heartsong Presents Author of the Year, and CBS local news listed Gail as one of the top four writers in the Detroit area. Gail is the author of Writer's Digest, Writing The Christian Romance. She is a founder of American Christian Fiction Writers and is a well-known keynote speaker.
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November 4, 2017 . . . Writers' Workshops offered by the Civic Center Library. Keynote speaker is criminal defense lawyer and author Kerrie Droban whose had her true crime books turned into documentaries as well as a television series. Christian author and small publisher owner Cynthia Hickey will be a featured speaker. Other speakers are Tara Taylor Quinn, Jennifer Ashley, AK Smith, Pamela Tracy, Valen Cox, Shelley Gillispie, Caris Roane, and Leslie Jones. This event as 11 workshops to choose and runs from 10:00 to 4:45. CWOW will use the lunch hour (12:30 to 2:00) to meet for lunch, discuss what they've learned, and conduct business. Cynthia Hickey will join us for lunch.
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CWOW President: Pamela Tracy
Pamela Tracy is a USA Today award-winning author who lives with in the greater Phoenix area. She's been writing since again two when, amazingly enough, her words looked a big like
scribbles. She kept scribbling... in notebooks, on an old IBM typewriter, and now it's much
easier thanks to her MAC. First published in 1999 (yes, she was 12), she's writing for or has
written for Barbour, Kensington, Guideposts, and Harlequin. She has more than thirty books
to her name and almost 2 million copies sold. This is her fourth stint as CWOW's president.
Pamela Tracy is a USA Today award-winning author who lives with in the greater Phoenix area. She's been writing since again two when, amazingly enough, her words looked a big like
scribbles. She kept scribbling... in notebooks, on an old IBM typewriter, and now it's much
easier thanks to her MAC. First published in 1999 (yes, she was 12), she's writing for or has
written for Barbour, Kensington, Guideposts, and Harlequin. She has more than thirty books
to her name and almost 2 million copies sold. This is her fourth stint as CWOW's president.
CWOW Vice President: Ruth Douthitt
Ruth A. Douthitt’s life took a turn for the better when she returned to college in her late thirties to complete a B.A. in Visual Art from ASU as well as a Masters in Education from University of Phoenix. After teaching college part time, she decided it was time to complete her first book after working on it for almost 20 years. The Dragon Forest trilogy is about knights, castles, and the dragon realm. Ruth has completed her second trilogy about a group of misfit kids who solve murder mysteries with the help of ghosts. The Children series is now available! Ruth currently works in curriculum development and also teaches women's Bible study. Ruth desires to write both non-fiction as well as fiction for women. She lives in Phoenix, AZ with her husband of 29 years. For more information on Ruth A. Douthitt, visit: www.thedragonforest.com
Ruth A. Douthitt’s life took a turn for the better when she returned to college in her late thirties to complete a B.A. in Visual Art from ASU as well as a Masters in Education from University of Phoenix. After teaching college part time, she decided it was time to complete her first book after working on it for almost 20 years. The Dragon Forest trilogy is about knights, castles, and the dragon realm. Ruth has completed her second trilogy about a group of misfit kids who solve murder mysteries with the help of ghosts. The Children series is now available! Ruth currently works in curriculum development and also teaches women's Bible study. Ruth desires to write both non-fiction as well as fiction for women. She lives in Phoenix, AZ with her husband of 29 years. For more information on Ruth A. Douthitt, visit: www.thedragonforest.com
CWOW is making a new addition to our website, FEATURED MEMBER.
Each month, a different member will be chosen to write a blog and send in a picture. You won’t want to miss this. It will be a wonderful way for us to get to know each other and share what we are doing in the writing world! Check out the featured member on our blog page here. Previous featured members can be located on our Featured Members page as well.
Pamela Tracy
CWOW President
Each month, a different member will be chosen to write a blog and send in a picture. You won’t want to miss this. It will be a wonderful way for us to get to know each other and share what we are doing in the writing world! Check out the featured member on our blog page here. Previous featured members can be located on our Featured Members page as well.
Pamela Tracy
CWOW President
The 2016 Phoenix Rattler Contest winner is . . . Kathleen D. Bailey for Lost and Found! Congratulations Kathleen!
Check out all the category winners and finalists here.
Check out all the category winners and finalists here.
