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Established in 1987, now with over 170 members, DARA - Chapter 56 of Romance Writers of America® - is a non-profit, voluntary association of writers dedicated to raising and maintaining quality in the romance genre and its sub genres. DARA works to accomplish this through advocating high professional standards and through the dissemination of information on writing and the publishing industry.
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Join us Saturday July 26 at 9:30 A.M. at the Holiday Inn Select US-75 (North Central Expressway) and Campbell Road in Richardson, TX
| FIRST LINES |
Presented by Shara Smock
Shara Smock, Author of Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell, Will Lead Workshop on First Lines
You only get one chance to make a great first impression, and a great first sentence can be the start of a wonderful relationship between author and reader. Author Shara Smock interviewed more than 100 published writers to collect their techniques and secrets of hooking their readers. Analyzing these award-winning authors’ own first lines as well as those from writers they admire, Smock shares techniques for hooking readers with first lines, as well as their motivations for choosing the words they did. Whether you're writing your first novel or your seventieth, you can find useful information in Smock's discussion of Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell.
After graduating from high school, Shara Smock started writing professionally for the New York Times with a health column and over the years, has written more than thirty computer software manuals and numerous features for magazines and newspapers. In 1994, she published her first “fun” project Living with Big Cats. Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell was published in 2001 and 2007 brought a chapter in How I Got the Gig, A Writers’ Handbook by Experts. Her current project with Kathryn Taromina is Let’s Talk Dirty about Garbage, a book of America’s best stories from garbage collectors.
Bring the openers to your own works to share and discuss as part of this workshop.
| RITA and Golden Heart News |
Vickie Taylor is a RITA finalist in the Romance Novella Category with her "Angel And The Hellraiser".
Liese Sherwood-Fabre is a Golden Heart finalist in the Novel With Strong Romantic Elements category for her manuscript Heads Up, St. Anthony.
| Recognitions and Achievements |
Nancy Haddock - 2006 RWA National Service Award Recipient
Judy Christenberry - Harlequin 75-Books Award
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