Educational Resources for CORW Members

If you're looking to expand your knowledge about writing, then perhaps one of the tapes or CD's in our library will be just what you're looking for. If you don't have time to sit and read, you can listen to a tape while you drive, cook or clean your house and still learn about the craft of writing.

Check out what's available, and at the next meeting you are welcome to rent as many tapes as you want for the bargain price of $1 per month. With over 100 titles to choose from, there's bound to be something that will help you become a better writer.

CD's MP3 Player

• Shining Bright RWA's Silver Anniversary Workshop
• Handouts - Reno, Nevada 2005
• Dallas 2004 Disc 1
• Dallas 2004 Disc 2
• Dallas 2004 Disc 3
• Shining Bright 3 of 3
• July 2003 24 favorite sessions
  

Tapes

1. Heroes and Heroines: Contemporary - Moderator Christine Flynn - 1989
2. Added Dimensions - Science Fiction & Fantasy in Romance - Mod: Constance O'Day-Flannery 1989
3. Love is Not Enough - How to Write for Mainstream - Sandra Brown / panel 1989
4. Alternative Markets: Screenwriting - Terry Black, Jollie Kramer 1991
5. Beyond Romance: The Relationship Book - Linda Barlow, Susan Elizabeth Phillips 1991
6. Why He Gets into your Genes - lda Minger - 1992
7. 2Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women - Jayne Ann Krentz, Patricia Smith - 1992
8. How to Be an Overnight Success in Just Seven Years - Janice Reams Hudson -1993
9. Pulling the Trigger - Linda Hilton 1993
10. Your Light to Success 1994 New York - Out of the library and into the past New ways to research your American historical - Gorda Parker and Miranda Jarrett
11. Your Light to Success 1994 New York - Using Folk Tales in the Supernatural
12. Your Light to Success 1994 - Tension Walking the Tightrope
    Christine Healy, Susan Vansick and Jane Robson
13. Your Light to Success 1994 New York - Skin, Sinew and Psychology
14. Your Light to Success 1994 New York - Left Brain/Right Brain: - Eileen Dryer.
15. Your Light to Success 1994 New York - Using Medical Matters in your novel - Laurie Miller and Anita Gunnufson
16. Your Light to Success RWA 1994 National Conference New York
17. Your Light to Success 1994 New York - Using Research to Make Your Story come alive - Tami Hoag and Miriam Minger
18. Your Light to Success 1994 New York - Red Herrings & White Lies - Joanna Pence
19. Keynote Address-Opening Session - Judith McNaught - 1996
20. Key Points to Great First Chapters - Jill Marie Landis 1996 Dallas Texas
21. So You're Looking for a Silhouette or - Harlequin Historical Editor - 1996
22. Writing the Selling Synopsis - What Makes the Editor Ask for More - Leslie Wainger
23. Show Don't Tell - Barbara Dawson Smith - 1996
24. Conversations with Harlequin - Malle Vallik, Julianne Moore 1996
25. The True Meaning of Mainstream - Barbara Delinsky 1996
26. Writing the Sweet Traditional - Leigh Michaels 1996
27. The Dreaded Synopsis - Elizabeth Sinclair, Jackie Manning - 1996
28. How to take a MSS apart and put it back together - Barbara Keiler
29. He feels, she feels, creating internal conflict - Shelley Thacker - 1996
30. What it Took to Write that First Published Book - Paula D-Etcheverry.
31. Depression and the Writer - Katherine Greyle - 1996
32. Creating Conflict in the Inspirational Romance - Veda Boyd Jones
33. Characters who Come Alive - Jodi Thomas - RWA 1996 Dallas
34. Leading the Reader On-Cues, Clues and Foreshadowing - Merline Lovelace - 1996 Dallas, Texas
35. The Last Techniques I Learned Before Selling Scene and Sequel - Anne Eames 1966
36. Read Me and Weep: How to Tug on Readers' Emotions - Sharon Sala - RWA 1996 Dallas, Texas
37. Tapping into Myths & Archetypes - A Surefire Structure that Sells - Wendy Hilton- Jones - 1996
38. Opening to Hook & Set the Tone - Jennifer Blake - 1996
39. Using POV to Control the Reader's Experience - Karyn Witmer-Gow
40. The Shortest Distance Between you and a Published Book - Susan Page -
41. Chat with Julie Garwood 1997 Orlando Fl
42. The Heart or Other Organs - What Drives Romance - Jo Beverley & Panel - 1997 Orlando Fl.
43. Ten Stupid Things Writers do to screw up their Careers - Haywood Smith - RWA 1997 Orlando, Fl.
44. What Do We Get Paid For? Pamela Ahearn, Irene Goodman and Jean Price RWA 1997 Orlando, Fl.
45. Hero/Heroine Relationship - Lynn Kerstan - Alicia Rasley 1997
46. What I Wish I'd Known When I Started - Jean Brashear - 1997
47. He said, she said - Developing Character in The Short Contemporary - Sandra Marton
48. An In-Depth Contemporary Market - Barbara McMahon - RWA1997 Orlando Fl.
49. From 0 to $60,000: How to Jump Start Your Career As a Category Romance Writer- Suzanne Brockman - 1997
50. Keep on Keeping On… Motivated, That is - Sharon Mignerey - 1998
51. Groom Bestsellers (Editors Panel) - 1998 RWA Anaheim
52. Luncheon Presentation - Judith Arnold - 1998
53. The Inner Life of the Heroine - Kate Moore, 1998 Anaheim
54. Breakfast Presentation - Mary Jo Putney - 1998
55. Middles, muddles: how to escape them. JoAnn Ferguson 1998
56. Writing for the U.K. Market - Molly Lillis - 1998
57. From Genre to Mainstream - Elements of Popular Fiction - Eileen Dreyer Tape # 1
58. From Genre to Mainstream - Elements of Popular Fiction - Eileen Dreyer Tape # 2
59. Heroes you Hate to Love - Jimmie Morel and JoAnn Power - 1993
60. From Page Turner to Big Screen - Darlene Graham, Kathleen Scheibling -
61. Inside the Editor's Mind: Analyzing Synopses - 1999 - Leslie Wainger
62. Building a Scene - Making Show Don't Tell Operative - Judith Ivory
63. Why did I Buy that Book? (An Editor's Perspective) Mary-Theresa Hussy & Christina Zika Washington DC 2000
64. Writing basics - Characterization RWA New Orleans - Jean Saunders
65. Chat With … Nora Roberts 1999 - Chicago Il.
66. Inspirationals - They're Romances Too - Robin Lee Hatcher, Lori Copeland, Rebekah Nesbitt
67. Keep "Emotional up all Night - How to Write a Page Turner - Suzanne Brockman
68. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Writers - Cheryl Anne Porter 2000
69. Breaking into Category Suspense - 2001 New Orleans
70. Question & A Session - Anything Goes - 2001 - New Orleans - Nora Roberts
71. The Hows and Whys of Bestselling Style. Judith Stanton - 2002
72. Creating Character Emotions - Jeanie LeGendra 2001 New Orleans, LA
73. "What it Takes." Talent, Hard Work, Persistance & Luck. Ruth Glick
74. The Fine Art of Body Language - Patti Shenberger 2002 Denver, CO.
75. Writing with the Five Senses - Delia Parr
76. Once More with Feeling - Adding Emotion, Making a Sale - Virginia Kantra 2002
77. Slugging it out between the Covers. Conflict/Motivation Debra Dixon
78. Working Smart - Mary McCall 2002 Denver
79. Create the Perfect Scene - Alicia Scott
80. Spotlight on NAL
81. Spotlight on Dell
82. Spotlight on Kensington Kate Duffy 2001
83. Spotlight on Silhouette - Karen Richmond - 1999
84. Spotlight on… Mira - Dianna Moggy - Editorial Director - 1999
85. Awards Keynote Address - Patricia Gaffney - 2001
86. And Secret Baby Makes Three - Pamela Burford
87. Tighten your Conflict, Tighten Your Plot - Carolyn Greene
88. Spotlight on Steeple Hill - Cynthia Rutledge
89. Make them Laugh, Make them Cry - Barbara Dawson Smith
90. Writing the Long Contemporary - Panel
91. Spotlight on Harlequin - 1996 panel
92. Spotlight on Avalon - Erin Cartwright 2002
93. Power up Your Story - Lynn Ker8stan tape 1
94. Power up Your Story - Lynn Kerstan tape 2
95. The Encounter - Debbie Hancock
96. Plotting A Method to Madness - Margaret Wilkins
97. Texturing your novel - Kristin Hannah
98. Seven Secrets of Romantic Suspense -- Alicia Scott
99. Sensuality and Sexual Tension Mod. Lass Small
100. Time Management - Kristine Rolofson
101. The Ups and Downs of a New Writer - Kathryn Shay
102. Building a Successful Category Career
103. Woman Writers and their Journals - Dawn Reno
104. Writing Away your Fears - Crystal Stovall
105. Deciphering Rejection & Self Editing Barbara Keiler, Patricia McLaughlin
106. So Close but no sale Contemporary Submission Part 1 Victoria Barrett
107. So Close but no sale Contemporary Submission Part 2 Victoria Barrett
108. Book in a Week & Life-Writing with Passion & Joy - April Kihlstrom.

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