Yellow Rose RWA

2010 Winter Rose Awards Luncheon

Featuring Christie Craig
Presenting: Character Motivation: Blame it on their parents
and other ways to explain why our characters do what they do

and

Rachel Caine
Presenting: Writing YA Fiction

Editor Appointments Available:

Deb Werksman, Sourcebooks, Inc.
Laurie M. Rauch, Samhain Publishing

Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010
8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Location:
Bessie Mitchell House
411 Ball Street
Grapevine, TX 76051

Click here for a map

Come join us! Yellow Rose Romance Writers is hosting our annual Winter Rose Awards Luncheon to announce winners in the 2010 Winter Rose Contest. Space is limited, so register early to reserve your spot! Celebrate our winners with us, hear fabulous speakers, pitch your stories, and enjoy lots of delicious food.

Registration Deadline: May 8, 2010

Registration Fee:

$30 for YR/NT/DARA Members
$40 All Other RWA Members
$50 Late Registration (after May 8, 2010)

Click here for registration form in PDF or here for a Word doc. We accept checks, money order or PayPal. To pay via PayPal, use the button below. If paying by PayPal, email the registration form to Denise McDonald.

Editor appointments available on a first come-first serve basis as space is limited!

About The Speakers

Chrisite Craig - Christie Craig grew up in Alabama, where she caught lightning bugs, ran barefoot, and regularly rescued potential princes, in the form of Alabama bullfrogs, from her brothers. Today, she is still fascinated with lighting bugs, mostly wears shoes, but has turned her focus to rescuing mammals instead of amphibians. She now lives in Texas with her four rescued cats, and a prince of a husband, who for the record, is not a frog. Her non-fiction and photography have appeared in over three thousand national magazines. After selling four novels in one day, she has gained a reputation for writing romance fiction that has both witty humor and a suspenseful, sexy tone. Shut Up and Kiss Me, her seventh novel will be released next month. Christie also writes non-fiction books with Faye Hughes. Their book, w The Everything Guide to Writing a Romance Novel, was a September 08 release. Coming out in June is their second non-fiction, Wild, Wicked and Wanton: 101 Ways to Love Like You’re in a Romance Novel. Christie has also recently sold a Young Adult Series to St. Martins Press titled, Bone Creek Camp, which she will write as C.C. Hunter. You can visit Christie online at www.christie-craig.com, catch her blogs on www.killerfiction.net on Tuesdays or check out her writing articles at www.writewithus.net.

Rachel Caine - Rachel Caine is the internationally bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Morganville Vampires young adult series, which is currently planned for 12 books. The most recent releases for 2010 are Kiss of Death (April 2010) and Ghost Town (October 2010). The series has been optioned for film, television and multimedia by prominent British producer Charles Armitage (Red Dwarf).

She also writes the bestselling Weather Warden series, which concludes its story arc in August 2010 with the release of Total Eclipse. She recently launched a third series, Outcast Season (Undone, Unknown, Unseen, Unbroken).

She has also written paranormal romantic action/adventure for Silhouette Bombshell, and her most recent paranormal romance novel, Athena Force: Line of Sight, was a 2008 RT Reviewer’s Choice award winner. She also published an original novel for the television show Stargate SG-1 (Sacrifice Moon) under the pseudonym of Julie Fortune in 2005. She previously published under the names Roxanne Longstreet and Roxanne Conrad.

She is a contributor to a number of Dallas publisher BenBella Books’ SmartPop anthologies of nonfiction essays, and had short fiction in several bestselling anthologies, including My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon, Strange Brew, Dark and Stormy Knights (St. Martins), and Many Bloody Returns (Ace).

She recently retired as Director of Corporate Communications and member of the Senior Management Team for a large multinational company based in Irving, Texas. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University.

She and her husband, award-winning artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Fort Worth.

Website: www.rachelcaine.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/rachelcaine
Livejournal: http://rachelcaine.livejournal.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rachelcaine
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/rachelcaine

About The Editors

Deb Werksman - Deb Werksman has been an acquiring editor and editorial manager for Sourcebooks for the past eleven years, before which she had her own publishing company. She is the country's foremost editor of Jane Austen sequels, and acquires single title romance in all subgenres, as well as historical and women's fiction. Sourcebooks is the country's largest woman-owned independent publishing house, and we're known for our sales and marketing, as well as our focus on building authors' careers. She's currently looking for single title romance in all subgenres, historical fiction, commerical women's fiction, and Jane Austen related fiction.

Laurie M. Rauch - Laurie M. Rauch joined Samhain Publishing as an editor in 2006, and became the executive editor in 2009. As the executive editor, Laurie’s main focus is on publication standards and house style, developing and motivating the editing staff. With over thirteen years of experience and a diploma in Book and Magazine Publishing, Laurie's found that stories about people falling in love are a lot more fun than profit reports and server installation manuals. She loves stories that make her laugh or make her cry, but most of all make her sigh at the end and know that two people who were meant to be have found their happily ever after. Laurie is passionate about good, and grammatically correct, writing. In fact, she’s known for her motto: Fighting bad grammar one misplaced modifier at a time. A pop-culture junkie, Internet addict and self-proclaimed geek, Laurie lives in Canada with her guy and their wiener dog, Oscar.