CFRW holds a monthly meeting, typically on the first or second Saturday of the month.
Next Meeting:
March 3, 2012
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, Orlando Airport, 7300 Augusta National Dr., Orlando, Fl. 32822
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio (Intimate In-house Interview Session): Roxanne St. Claire
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: How To Write A Better Book
Speaker(s): Maria Geraci
Upcoming Meetings:
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, Orlando Airport, 7300 Augusta National Dr., Orlando, Fl. 32822
April 14th, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Karen Potter
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: POV/Self-Editing
Guest Speaker – Tracy Truman
May 5th, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Dara Edmondson
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: Feng Sui For The Writer’s Mind
Guest Speaker – Jax Cassidy
June 2, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Charlie Alldredge
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: Reinventing Yourself
Guest Speaker – Ruth Owen
July 7, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Pamela LaBud
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: TBA
Guest Speaker – Gennita Low
August 4, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Louise Gouge
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: Self Pub, Indie Pub, E-Pub & Everything you need to know about it
Guest Speaker – Panel: Grace Kone, Jax Cassidy, & others
September 1, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Maria Geraci
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: E-Pub Journey
Guest Speaker – Lara Santiago
October 6, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Lorena Streeter
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: TBA
Guest Speaker – Karen Potter
November 3, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Writer’s Studio – Leigh Duncan
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Topic: Goal Setting & Motivation Revisited
Guest Speaker – TBA, Life Coach
Previous 2011-12 Programs…
February 4, 2012
Writer’s Studio (Intimate In-house Interview Session): Jax Cassidy
Topic: Book to Film
Speaker(s): Connie Mann
January 7, 2012
Writer’s Studio (Intimate In-house Interview Session): Blair Bancroft
Topic: Goal Setting & Staying Motivated
Speaker(s): Jeanan Davis & CFRWA Board
November 5, 2011
Writer’s Studio (Intimate In-house Interview Session): Elizabeth Schechter
Speaker was unable to attend.
October 1, 2011
Writer’s Studio (Intimate In-house Interview Session): Nancy Cohen
Topic: Plotting & Story Development
Speakers: Nancy Cohen
September 3, 2011
Writer’s Studio (Intimate In-house Interview Session): K.C Burns
Topic: Demystifying Alexander Hauge 6-step plot structure
Speakers: Diane Burke
August 6, 2011
Speaker was unable to attend.
July 9, 2011
Topic: Medical Speak for Writers
Speakers: Dara Edmondson and Joanie White
Joanie White is a Nurse Practitioner who currently works in clinical transformation and patient safety. She spent ten years as a pediatric trauma transport nurse and possesses a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing and a Master’s Degree in business.
Dara Edmondson has published more than a twenty romances under her own name and her pen name, Wynter Daniels. She currently writes for Carina Press, Ellora’s Cave, Loose Id and Red Sage Publishing. She has also been teaching in-person and online classes for writers for several years. You can find her on the web at www.WynterDaniels.com.
June 4, 2011
Topic: Fan Dancing: Drawing a Crowd Without Dropping Your Drawers.
Speakers: Darlyn Finch and Brad Kuhn
Darlyn Finch was the Winter 2006-2007 writer-in-residence at Kerouac House in Orlando, Fl. Her first collection of poetry and short stories, Red Wax Rose, was published in February 2007 by Shady Lane Press. Her poems have been featured on Poetic Logic on WMFE-FM and read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac.
Brad Kuhn is the winner of the 2006 Thomas Burnett Swann Poetry Prize. A professional speech writer and former journalist, he was a staff writer for The Orlando Sentinel and The Wall Street Journal. He is a co-author of I Hate My Banker, a work on nonfiction published in 1997.
May 7, 2011
Topic: “Hot to Plot!” Adventures in story crafting. Pam will quickly go through the basics of plotting, the difference between Character driven story vs. Plot driven story. Once that is done, she will guide the group in plotting our own story together.
Speaker: Pamela LaBud
Fun Facts about Pam Labud:
At age 13 Pam wanted to be a writer, so she asked her parents for a typewriter for Christmas, (no computers back in the dark ages) and has held fast to that dream her entire life. Having penned only poetry, short stories, and half finished novels, she finally took writing seriously and finished her first novel in 1996. Then, she chucked it under the bed and joined RWA.
First published by an epub in 2003, she later went on to final and win several RWA chapter contests, including The Touch Of Magic. That book was later published in Kensington’s Zebra Debut author line and went on in 2006 went on to earn double RITA finalist status in the Best First Book and Best Paranormal Categories. That book, and her second from Kensington, both earned 4 star reviews from Romantic Times.
Published in both print and in ebooks, she now is in the midst of re-launching her Erotic Cowboy series, continuing the Wade and Lily stories, under the pen name, Leigh Curtis.
Pam now lives in sunny Florida with her husband, two daughters, and six, (yes, count `em, six) dogs, and five cockatiels. Between bits of housework and working full time as a “heart saving” nurse, she writes Regency historical and paranormal books, as well as urban fantasy and sexy western historical novellas. You can find more info about her books at www.pamlabud.com. You can also friend her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
Here’s your homework: Come to the meeting with a plot in mind for a romance involving a hurricane.
Bonus: a plot idea will be chosen as the basis for the group activity. The member whose plot is selected will win a free download from Pam and a prize from CFRWA as well.
April 2, 2011
Topic: Taxes and the Author
Speaker: Gerald Sutton
Previously a CFO for an insurance service company, Gerald has been working as a Certified Public Accountant for over ten years. His services include tax compliance and planning for individuals, sole proprietors, corporations, partnerships and LLCs, and is more than happy to answer specific questions regarding author taxes.
March 5, 2011 – 10:30 a.m.
Topic: Panel on Industry News, Publishing and Q&A with published authors (replaced Online Safety for Women due to unavailability of speaker)
Speakers: Kristin Painter, Pamela LaBud, Jax Cassidy, Grace Kone, Lorena Streeter
February 5, 2011
Topic: Road to Publication
Speaker: Leigh Duncan
Award-winning author Leigh Duncan and her family moved fourteen times before the children graduated from high school. All that packing and unpacking led to Leigh’s long-standing philosophy that when dirt builds up in the corners, it’s time to call the movers. It also taught her that solid relationships are the foundation for true happiness. Married to the love of her life and mother of two wonderful young adults, Leigh worked as a secretary, a teacher and a government contractor before leaving those jobs behind to pursue writing, her life-long passion. Once the moving vans made their final stop in central Florida, Leigh settled in to write the kind of books she loves to read, ones where home, family and community are keys to the happy endings we all deserve.