Pick Up The Pace

Proudly Present

Saturday, September 27, 2008
8:15 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Marco Polo Banquet Center
East Hartford, CT

Join Romance Author Mary Buckham as she presents four workshops that will help you have your readers up all night turning the pages, and keep them guessing until the end.

Visit Mary's website at www.marybuckham.com. You'll find more information about her workshops including her famous Power Plotting™ Weekends, which have a regular cost of $495. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from Mary at a fraction of the cost.

What You'll Learn
Mary Buckham will teach from the Break Into Fiction™ Template Teaching Series including Pacing, Power Openings, Power Endings and Plot Twists.

What keeps a book intriguing enough to have readers turn the pages and not set it down? How can one author's books have you riveted and another's leave you feeling ho-hum? There are key craft tips and techniques to balance fast-paced conflict, tensions, suspense or mystery, action and emotion with slower-paced description and internal dialogue.

In this day-long seminar you'll learn what needs to be in a powerful opening and what can slow a power opening down. Understand the requirements of a powerful ending, one that has a reader rushing to your website to find more of your work or when your next novel will be released. Dig into a deeper understanding of plot twists with a series of key questions to maximize these points in your own novel.

Pacing, Power Openings, Power Endings and Plot Twists will all include a series of templates for attendees to use again and again in their own work. Plus, Mary is bringing a bonus template that will be a surprise for all the attendees in addition to door prizes.

Meet Mary

Mary Buckham has always believed in Make-Believe. As a child she roped, cajoled and bullied her brothers and sisters, and unsuspecting neighbor children into elaborate story productions put on in her backyard or basement. Among the swashbuckling pirates, damsels in distress and heroes and heroines, it was always Mary's role which saved the day. She lives with Prince Charming and her two youngest children in a picturesque Pacific Northwest Seaport community filled with writers, artists and musicians. All constantly proving that the power of Make-believe can make magic happen.

Schedule 8:15 - 8:45: Registration 8:45 - 12:00: Workshop: Pacing 12:00 - 12:45: Lunch 12:45 - 1:30: Workshop: Power Openings 1:45 - 2:30: Workshop: Power Endings 2:45 - 3:30: Workshop: Plot Twists

• Conference fee is $40* for CORW members and $95 for non-members (includes continental breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks).
  
  *You must be a CORW member for three months prior to the event in order to receive the member discount.
  
  
• Registration deadline is September 13th. Confirmation will be sent by email.
  
  
• Please click here for printable confirmation form. It may be mailed along with a check, payable to CORW to

  Charter Oak Romance Writers, c/o Laurie Adams, Workshop Chair, 133 North Elm Street Manchester, CT 06042

  
  Or register and pay online.
  
  Save this form to your computer, fill it in and email it to Workshop Chair Laurie Adams at LGA79@aol.com. Payments may be made at PayPal with corwtreasurer2@gmail.com as recipient.
  
  
• Cancellations after September 13th will result in a $35 deduction from your refund to cover the cost of your meal, which CORW must pay for at the time of ordering.
  
  
• CORW members who judged the 2008 Golden Acorn contest may attend at no charge, but must still complete and send in a registration form.

Directions:
From I-91, take I-84 East

From I-84 East take exit 60 and turn LEFT at the end of the ramp. You will pass Wickham Park on the right. Marco Polo is just over the East Hartford town line on the right.

From I-84 West take exit 60 and turn RIGHT at the end of the ramp. You will pass Wickham Park on the right. Marco Polo is just over the East Hartford town line on the right.

Click here for a map.

Parking and Registration:
Go around to the back of the building. There is parking and an entrance to the hall.

July 1st - August 12th: The Tudors
Michelle Inglesby writing as Eliza Knight

Synopsis
The Tudor reign began in 1485 and ended in 1603. There were six reigning monarchs in the Tudor dynasty: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Although some may not consider Jane Grey to have been a monarch considering she was only on the throne for nine days, I will include it because however short she was crowned queen.

A genealogical tree for the Tudors will be provided for information on births, deaths, marriages and children.

There will be six lessons during this course, one lesson for each monarch. Each lesson will discuss events during the reign of the monarchs, such as educational accomplishments, marriages, children, foreign policy, Acts within England, person’s close to them including advisors, and I will throw in some fun facts and gritty scandals too.

Questions and discussion welcome throughout, and there will be assignments and the end of each lesson to help refresh your memory of all the fascinating history you will learn.

• Lesson One: Henry VII, Reign 1485 - 1509
• Lesson Two: Henry VIII, Reign 1509 - 1547
• Lesson Three: Edward VI, Reign 1547 – 1553
• Lesson Four: Jane Grey, Reign July 1553
• Lesson Five: Mary I, Reign 1553 - 1558
• Lesson Six: Elizabeth I, Reign 1558 – 1603
  

Eliza Knight

Bio Michelle Inglesby writes historical romance under the pen name Eliza Knight. She has been an avid fan of the Tudor dynasty for about fifteen years. In fact she came up with the pen name Eliza after her favorite real life heroine, Elizabeth I. Michelle runs a blog History Undressed, where she discusses the not so known but wildly fascinating facts of history. While not avidly, reading, writing and researching, she is taking care of two beautiful daughters and living with her own knight in shining armor. Author's Website: http://elizaknight.com

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Payments Please send a check ($10 for CORW members and $15 for all others) payable to Charter Oak Romance Writers, Inc (CORW) to: PO Box 331002 West Hartford, CT 06133-1002 OR Payments may be made at with corwtreasurer2@gmail.com as recipient.