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SUMMARY:So\, You Want to Write Romance with Laura Castoro
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, January 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom)\nInstructor: Laura Castro\nNonmember: $155; Member: $130; Student/Educator/Military: $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\nClass Full\nCompelling lovers\, an emotionally driven plot\, and steamy sex scenes–these are the ingredients of every great romance story. If you’ve always wanted to write a romance but didn’t know how\, now is your chance! Bring your story idea to life with award-winning romance author Laura Castoro (aka Laura Parker).  \nIn this 4-session\, generative workshop\, we will guide writers through the creation of an emotionally resonant plot with a unique slant and irresistible characters for a fascinating and unforgettable romance. Yes\, there will be sex scenes! Writers will build on a story concept by constructing a synopsis and a first chapter while also learning about potential problems that can derail the creative process. By the end of the workshop\, each writer will have the good bones of a riveting romance. \nThis course is open to fiction writers 18+ who want to write or finish a romance manuscript. \nBy the end of the class\, students will have:  \n\nA story synopsis with characters and plot\nThe story structure and a good starting place\nIdeas on how to keep the creative process going\n\nRead Laura’s Writer’s Desk Interview!\n\nLaura Castoro\, a USA Today\, Amazon top 100\, and Apple Books bestseller\, has published 47 novels with major publishing houses such as Dell Books\, Berkley\, Avon\, Warner\, MIRA\, Harlequin\, Kensington\, Pocketbooks\, St\, Harper Collins\, Martins Press\, and William Morrow. She has also contributed to several fiction anthologies and has published non-fiction YA and short fiction in Good Housekeeping. Under the name Laura Parker\, she writes historical and contemporary romance\, westerns\, and sagas. As Laura Castoro\, she writes contemporary African American and contemporary women’s fiction. Writing as D. D. Ayres\, she publishes a romantic suspense series called the K-9 Rescue Series. Her current release as Laura Castoro is Love On The Line (2021) through William Morrow. Laura has won multiple national writing awards. In 2005\, she was inducted into the Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame. She is a past president of Novelists\, Inc. (2013)\, an international professional fiction writers’ organization. She is a past president and board member of the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow\, a writer residency program in the AR Ozarks. She speaks at numerous conferences and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Laura currently lives in San Antonio\, TX. Visit Laura at www.ddayres.com. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Rudy Ruiz
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, January 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Rudy Ruiz and his novel\, VALLEY OF SHADOWS. Moderated by Guadalupe Garcia McCall.\n\nABOUT VALLEY OF SHADOWS\nWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction \nNew York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection \n\n\n\n\nSolitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife\, his family\, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course\, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge\, hiding out on his ranch\, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town\, pushing its volatile mix of Anglo\, Mexican\, and Apache settlers to the brink of self-destruction\, he feels reluctantly compelled to confront both life\, and the much more likely possibility of death\, yet again. \nThrough luminous prose and soul-searching reflections\, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains. \nABOUT RUDY RUIZ\nRudy Ruiz is an American author\, advocate and social entrepreneur. The son and grandson of Mexican immigrants\, Rudy Ruiz was born in Brownsville\, Texas and raised along the US-Mexico border\, living in Matamoros\, Mexico for extensive periods of time. He did not speak English until he entered school at the age of five. Once in school\, he dreamt of becoming a writer\, an entrepreneur\, and a contributor to the wellbeing of immigrants and minorities\, as well as to positive relations between diverse cultures and nations. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Harvard. Ruiz now resides in San Antonio with his wife\, Heather\, and their two children\, Paloma and Lorenzo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\n\n\n\n \nBorn in Piedras Negras\, Coahuila\, Mexico and raised in Eagle Pass\, Texas\, Guadalupe García McCall is the award-winning author of several young adult novels\, some short stories for adults\, and many children’s poems. Guadalupe has received the Prestigious Pura Belpre Award\, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award\, the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award\, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy\, among many other accolades. Visit Guadalupe at her website: https://ggmccall.com/.
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