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Message from the President - January 2025 RWR
When I opened my annual email from RWA, I was struck by a deeply personal milestone: this month marks my tenth year as a member of Romance Writers of America. In January 2015, I took my first step into this community, not knowing just how significant it would be in my journey as a romance writer. Back then, I had just completed a 200,000-word romantic suspense manuscript and found myself searching the internet for guidance on what to do next.
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Your Book Signing Checklist
By Barbara M. Britton
Posted 1/15/2025
Recently, a debut author emailed me asking what I brought to book signings. After I finished my response, I looked at the many paragraphs in my email and considered what her reaction would be. One of dread and panic.
Your book signing checklist will differ between small or large events, and how many books you are bringing to sell. You won’t break your back bringing one book but try lugging ten books to an event.
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An Indie Author’s Guide for Getting More Book Events: Creative Book Events for Authors!
By Penny Sansevieri
Posted 1/15/2025
Bookstore events, signings and author talks are always a great way to build support in your local community, build your fan base, and sell books. But as options for book events have narrowed, with dwindling bookstores and event space, authors often feel like they’re out of options when it comes to doing book events. But that only means you need to dig in and get more creative.
When I was first in business (23 years ago!), we worked with a lot of indie authors who were persona non grata – in the early days of indie publishing bookstore managers were really discouraged from hosting indie authors, which forced me to find more unique places to host events.
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Research as the Backbone of Fiction
By Belle Calhoune
Posted 1/15/2025
Research has been the backbone of many fiction novels, including my own. As writers, we are blessed to be living in an age when information is literally at our finger tips. As a child who grew up across the street from a public library, I recall the rudimentary ways we had to conduct research for school papers and presentations. It revolved around card catalogues and the Dewey decimal system. For the life of me, I can’t imagine currently conducting novel research in that manner. From what I remember, it was extremely time consuming and without the ROI of modern day research.
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Thinking Outside the Bookstore
By Mindy Hardwick
Posted 1/15/2025
What is your definition of writing success? When I first began writing, I attended a conference workshop on defining success. In my mind, I saw myself at a large bookstore, the seats packed as I read from my latest book. Afterward, there would be a line of people waiting for my signature. I’d worked in bookstores throughout college and into my early twenties and this was what a successful author looked like to me.
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How to Speak so Strangers Will Buy: Hand-Selling Your Book at Live Events
By Adrienne deWolfe
Posted 12/15/2025
Selling sucks. We all know it; we all hate to do it.
If you’re an Introvert, nothing is scarier than the idea of facing your Reading Public at a live event. Extroverts feel the same way. We’re just good at pretending.
As a Scaredy Cat, who dreaded rejection so much that it made me ill, I invented a motivational mantra. Perhaps it will help you:
“Fear of selling is the insidious Evil that has kept millions of writers in the poorhouse for hundreds of years.”
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Five Things Authors Get Wrong About Horses, and How You Can Get Them Right
By Lizzie Jenks
Posted 1/15/2025
London, 1817. The full moon still shone bright over the city as he entered the stable. The stable lads were all asleep, so he pulled his stallion out of its stall, buckled on its harness, and then he hitched up the coach and set out into the darkness.
Wait. What?
This would never have happened, and most of your readers know it. They might not know why, but they feel it in their bones, and that yanks them out of the story with a painful thunk.
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January 2025 Romance Writers Report
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Message from the President - December 2024 RWR
December is the perfect time to pause and reflect on your accomplishments in 2024. Writing can sometimes feel like a lonely pursuit, but every word written, every manuscript revised or completed, and every manuscript acquired or published is an accomplishment worth celebrating. This is something I do every year as the clock counts down to the start of the New Year, and I encourage you to take pride in your own 2024 journey.
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How to Make the Most of Your Writing Time
By Leslie J.Wyatt
Posted 12/16/2024
Assuming you’ve been able to carve out a dedicated writing time from your allotted twenty-four hours and figured out where you’ll do that writing, congratulations! Those crucial pieces of the overall picture are essential to writing success. With your when and your where now in place, it’s time to address some aspects of how to make the most of that precious window of creativity.
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Goal Setting: Work Smarter, Not Harder
By Diana Georgelos
Posted 12/16/2024
We, as story tellers, are well versed in the importance of setting goals for our characters. Every protagonist ideally has a goal (something they want to achieve) by the end of the story. Over the course of the story, a reader tracks the main character’s progress. They see if the hero/heroine is getting closer to or further away from achieving their goal. And at the climax, they see if the protagonist will finally achieved the goal or not.
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