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Mayhem in the Grove Accepting Speaker Proposals

Awesome local conference and speakers get in free plus $50.

http://murderinthegrove.com/workshop.html

The chaos and the Dreamspinner

Started another semester at Kaplan today. Three classes at 18 credits instead of 2 at 12, which is slightly crazy. One class called Tools for the Digital Age is all about social media, blogging and how communication within companies has changed because of those things. Should be interesting. The bigger load is in hopes that I’ll be able to graduate in January 2011, six months ahead of schedule.

Got a J O B but I ain’t saying where only that I’m slightly terrified and still looking for something else.

Oh yeah and I sent a partial of RNR to a great epublisher called Dreamspinner. They publish some of my favs like Andrew Grey and Lyn Gala. And they requested a full, which means they wanted to see the rest of it.

Mayhem in the Grove 2011, which is a writing conference I’m on the board for, is coming along nicely. Sherrilyn Kenyon is our Guest of Honor and Michael Hauge is the Master Class Presenter. Check out the new website courtesy of local kilt wearing NaNoWriMo leader Sam Justice.

 

Exposition Class

I’m teaching an exposition workshop June 9th 6:30 pm at Rediscovered Bookshop as part of Boise’s Novel Orchard group.

Here is a snippet from the handout.

Information the character already knows or should know, shouldn’t be told to the reader. She took every form of martial arts? Great. We will see that as she fights. She can tell that to someone who questions her. She can’t tell us and another character shouldn’t tell her either. “Well you know with your seven different black belts and ability to bench press 200 pounds, I figured you could take care of yourself.” WRONG.
Come to the class and I’ll clue you into better ways of giving information to the reader that doesn’t slow the pacing and doesn’t sound unrealistic.