SARA Conferences and Events

Writer's Workshop: Everything I Needed to Know About the Writing Life I Learned in Hollywood

San Antonio Romance Authors hosts a one-day writer’s workshop by best-selling mystery writer and actress Harley Jane Kozak:
"Everything I Needed to Know About the Writing Life I Learned in Hollywood"

Harley Jane KozakHarley Jane Kozak, a sometimes actress, lives with her family in California’s Conejo Valley. Her debut novel, Dating Dead Men, won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Its sequel was Dating is Murder, followed by Dead Ex and A Date You Can’t Refuse. Her short prose has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Soap Opera Digest, The Sun, The Santa Monica Review, and the anthologies Mystery Muses, This is Chick Lit, A Hell Of A Woman, Butcher Knives and Body Counts, and the upcoming Crimes by Moonlight, edited by Charlaine Harris. She blogs regularly on The Lipstick Chronicles

March 20th, 2010 Saturday
8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
At the San Antonio Hilton Airport

SARA Members $35
RWA Members $40
General Public $45
No-host lunch in hotel cafe

  • Free parking ticket may be obtained at check-in desk.
  • Water only will be served during session.
  • All are invited to join the group for a no-host lunch in the hotel café mid- session.
  • Hilton Airport is at 611 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, TX 78216 (210) 340-6060
  • Those whose registration has been received by 3.17.10 will be guaranteed a handout.

Registration Form. To submit electronically, fill out form and send to sanantonioromanceauthors@yahoo.com

Payment can be made either by check mailed to the address on the registration form or by PayPal. Please note that PayPal charges include a $2 processing fee.

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Join Us For Build a Book 2009-10!

BUILD-A-BOOK is San Antonio Romance Authors’ [SARA] uniquely designed series of hands-on workshops that educate aspiring writers how to write, sell and promote fiction in the twenty-first century.  With this low-cost series of workshops led by published authors, SARA helps hundreds of aspiring writers get their stories written—and published.  We are very excited to offer this service to the general public and invite anyone to join us who has ever thought of putting pen to paper for publication.  Our award-winning published SARA members will teach what they know best--from plotting to characterization, to how to acquire an agent and promote the finished book.  Join us for information, fun and a novel way to learn about the book business!

Note: Our Build a Book workshops take the place of the monthly meetings for September, January, April, and June.

When:

Our next series of Build a Book Workshops will take place on
Saturday, January 9: Workshop #2 - Deep POV, Dialogue, and Characterization Stereotypes
Saturday, April 17: Workshop #3 – Pacing/Turning Points and GMC/Conflict
Saturday, June 19: Workshop #4 – Scene & Sequel and Narrative

 

Each workshop will run from 8:30am - 12:30pm. Depending on the length of each presentation, 2-3 workshops will be offered at each session. We will do our best to cover the most popular topics voted on in a recent SARA Biz poll.

Where:

 

This year's location will be the Hilton Airport (the site of the 2009 Merritt Conference). 611 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, TX 78216
(210) 340-6060

Registration fees: 
   SARA members: $13.00 per workshop or $15 per workshop if paid with PayPal
  Non-SARA members: $20.00 per workshop or $22 per workshop if paid with PayPal

Register for all workshops and pay a total fee of $33.00 for SARA members and $45.00 for non-SARA members. Total fee if paying by PayPal: $35 for SARA members and $47 for non-SARA members.

SARA Member Options
Nonmember Options

2009-10 Build a Book Registration Form

Questions:

 

Joni Hahn, Workshop Chairperson, jonihahn@satx.rr.com

 

SARA Refund Policy

The refund policy for special events (including, but not limited to, Merritt Conference, the Fall Workshop and any other event for which a fee is charged) is 100% of the registration fee if cancellation is made thirty (30) days or more before the event, and 50% if made less than thirty (30) days and prior to seven (7) days before the event. There will be no refund if cancellation is made seven (7) or less days prior to the event.

 

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