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Our second annual Mansfield Writes writing workshop
was a huge success! BIG THANKS to our sponsors - BLUE COW COFFEE
COMPANY at 3807 E. Broad, Suite 125 in Mansfield andSUNSHINE DONUTS
at 1018 E. Broad in Mansfield. Thanks also to Barnes & Noble for selling books at the
workshop. This year's panel included Sandy Blair,
Rosemary Clement-Moore, Candace Havens, Arlene James, Shelley Trammell, Wendy Lyn Watson, and William McKinney. Information
about the authors appears below. Hope to see you in 2010!
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| Aspiring Writers Met Authors at the Booksigning |
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| Author Sandy Blair at Mansfield Writes |
Author Sandy Blair is an award-winning author
of Highland paranormal historical romance. Sandy has slept in castles, knelt in cathedrals where kings and
queens have been crowned, dined with peerage, floated along Venetian canals, explored the great pyramids, misplaced her husband
in an Egyptian ruin (she continues to deny being the one lost), and fallen (gracefully) off a cruise ship. Winner of
Romance Writers of America© Golden Heart for Best Paranormal Romance, Sandy’s debut release A
MAN IN A KILT also won the 2004 National Readers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance and was a 2005 RITA finalist.
Visit her at www.SandyBlair.net. Sandy discussed "The ABC's of Solid Storytelling."
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| Author Rosemary Clement-Moore Shared Writing Tips |
Author Rosemary Clement-Moore won the coveted 2009 Rita
Award for her young adult novel"Hell Week," one of the books in her popular Maggie Quinn paranormal YA series which
also includes "Prom Dates from Hell" and "Highway to Hell." Her next paranormal release, "The
Splendor Falls," will be available in September. Rosemary worked in theater for years before turning to writing
full time. Rosemary spoke on how to using acting techniques to improve your writing. Visit her at www.RosemaryClementMoore.com
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| Author Candace Havens |
Author Candace Havens is the best selling and award-winning author of "Charmed & Dangerous",
"Charmed & Ready", "Charmed & Deadly", "Like A Charm" and "The Demon King and I".
She is a two-time RITA, Write Touch Reader and Holt Medallion finalist. She is also the winner of the Barbara Wilson award.
Candy is also a nationally syndicated entertainment columnist for FYI Television. A veteran journalist, she has interviewed
just about everyone in Hollywood from George Clooney and Orlando Bloom to Nicole Kidman and Kate Beckinsale. You can hear
Candy weekly on 96.3 KSCS in the Dallas Fort Worth Area. Her popular online Writer's Workshop has more than 1000
students and provides free classes to professional and aspiring writers. Visit Candy at www.CandaceHavens.com
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| Christian Author Arlene James Enjoyed Meeting Aspiring Writers |
Arlene
James has been publishing for nearly three decades, with some seventy-plus titles to her credit. She focuses on sweet
and Inspirational romance and was among the first authors to publish in the Inspirational genre. An active and ardent Christian,
she credits her faith for bringing her through an early widowhood to a long and happy second marriage and for opening doors
to publication. She lives in Mansfield with her husband, artist and engineer J. E. Rather. Together, they have traveled extensively.
With nearly seven million books sold worldwide, Arlene considers herself blessed to have been called to that which she loves
and looks forward to many more years of writing, a fact that frankly amazes her, as she’s been at it since the eighth
grade! Arlene can be contacted through her websites, a personal site at www.arlenejames.com and a fun new site, www.chatamhouseseries.com, in support of her newly released first book in the Chatam
House series from Love Inspired by Steeple Hill. Arlene presented "An Introduction to Christian Publishing."
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| Author Shelley Trammell Shared How She Found Her Voice |
A 36-year-old family secret led to a life committed to writing, not only for herself but for her readers.
Shelley began putting her thoughts on paper and once she had a pen in hand, she couldn’t stop. Writing
is very therapeutic for her, and her dream is that something she lives will prove to help someone else. Having
a severely dyslexic daughter who hates books made Shelley want to change that way of thinking for her as well as other dyslexics
and provide them with a book they could relate to. Written as if Shelley’s daughter is telling her
own life story…Living “Lexi” - A Walk in the Life of a Dyslexic will
have you laughing from the start and you just may shed a tear for yourself or someone you know. Won’t
you come along? Shelley spoke on “Finding Your Voice”. Visit Shelley
at www.shelleytrammell.com.
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| Mystery Writer Wendy Lyn Watson |
Wendy Lyn Watson teaches constitutional law to college students by
day and writes deliciously funny cozy mysteries, with a dollop of romance, by night. I Scream, You
Scream: A Mystery a la Mode - the first of a series about the owner of an ice cream parlor in a small Texas town who
solves murders in between scooping sundaes - will be released by NAL in October, 2009 (see cover flap below). The second
book in the series, Scoop to Kill, will follow in July of 2010. While she does not commit - or solve - murders in real life, her love of ice cream is 100% true.
She’s also passionately devoted to 80s music, Asian horror films, and reality TV. A native
of Ohio, she’s lived in Virginia, Michigan, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Texas, where she currently lives with her husband
and four spoiled felines. You can find her on the web at www.wendylynwatson.com.
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