Brainstorming to Revision: The process of creating an erotic romance
with Keynote Speaker, Angela Knight
During this class, New York Times bestselling author Angela Knight demonstrates the techniques she uses in creating an erotic romance, while actually in the process of writing an e-book. The class is designed to help new authors better understand one method of writing a romance, while giving more experienced writers useful ideas about how to go about the creative process.
Topics include:
* Brainstorming the initial idea
* How to decide what kind of story to write
* How long it will be
* Which publisher to target it to
* Designing the hero and heroine, along with conflicts, inner, external and romantic.
She will also discuss brainstorming the plot and the paranormal world; beginnings, middles and climaxes; rewriting and grammar; novels vs. short fiction, and how to tell what length story you have.
Angela Knight s the New York Times bestselling author of the Mageverse paranormal series for Penguin Putnam’s Berkley imprint. She started out as a comic book writer in 1988, but was first published in erotic romance in 1996 in Red Sage’s Secrets anthology series. Since then, she has written 50 books, including 18 novels and more than 30 novellas and ebooks. She has also won a Career Achievement Award in Paranormal Romance from Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine, along with two RT Critics Choice awards for Best Erotic Romance and Best Werewolf Romance.