Join Lancaster Christian Writers Saturday, October 17th, 2015, 9:30AM-12 noon (registration opens at 9AM) at Lancaster Alliance Church, 210 Pitney Road, Lancaster, PA (right off HWY 30 near Costco) in welcoming back Shelley Adina, bestselling Christian steampunk and Amish romance novelist, who was with us in 2013. She will be flying in again from CA for the Strasburg Railroad Festival and is taking time out to share another fiction workshop with us: Creating Communities With Character.SPEAKER: Shelley Adina is an award-winning novelist, copy editor, and teaching writer in the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program at Seton Hill University. She writese Amish women's fiction as Adina Senft. Shelley won the RITA Award® from the Romance Writers of America in 2005, and was a finalist the following year. She was a Christy Award finalist in 2009 for The Fruit of My Lipstick, a two-time Carol Award finalist, and has lately been an Amazon bestseller with the Magnificent Devices novels.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: "Creating Communities with Character" You’ve created a hero to die for and a heroine to challenge him—but two people aren’t enough to carry the whole book. What about all the other people in your story world? In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create communities populated by compelling secondary and tertiary characters. Best friends, buddies, exes, families, and coworkers create foils and contrasts for your main characters, push the plot’s emotional complexity, build the story towns your reader wants to come back to . . . and become the main characters for the next book.
KEYSTONE CHRISTIAN FICTION WRITERS CONFERENCE: If you are a fiction writer, you will also want to check out American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) Pennsylvania Chapter's first one-day writer's conference at State College, PA on November 7th. Check out details at http://acfwpennsylvania.com/keystone-christian-fiction-writers-conference/
CRITIQUE GROUPS: And don't forget to bring your latest work-in-progress from this summer for critique groups (ten copies up to 1500 words).
As always, more info can be found at our LCW blog: http://lancasterchristianwriterstoday.blogspot.com Or email questions or concerns to jeanette@jeanettewindle.com
Blessings,
Jeanette Windle
President, Lancaster Christian Writers
