2010 Let Your Imagination Take Flight Conference

 

Greetings Everyone!

As the 2010 Conference Chair, I’m pleased to let you know planning has begun for the New England Chapter of RWA’s 2010 Let Your Imagination Take Flight Conference. Once again, our conference will be held at the Sheraton Tara Framingham Hotel and Conference Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, March 26-27, 2010.

I am proud to announce that our Keynote speaker will be New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Mary Janice Davidson.

Creator of the “Undead” series and credited with starting a whole new genre: Paranormal Chick Lit, Mary Janice is a prolific writer who is published in paranormal romance, young adult and non-fiction. She has several books scheduled for release in 2010 and an exciting new series from St. Martin’s Press called ME, MYSELF, and WHY.

Born in a small town in the Midwest, and having to move often because she was an Air Force brat, she grew up with a dream, Miss Congeniality in high school.  Later she fell in love with a guy who lived half a country away, so she we went out to Boston for a bit, and finally settled in Minnesota, land of ten thousand mosquitoes. She started writing when she was thirteen, sold her first book at twenty-nine, and made the best-seller list when she was thirty-four. Learn more about Mary Janice as the planning progresses, we are looking forward to having her with us in March!

 

We are also proud to announce that our Luncheon speaker will be NEC’s own Barbara Keiler.

Writing under the pen name Judith Arnold, Barbara Keiler is the author of eighty-six published novels.  She has been a multiple finalist for RWA’s Rita Award, and she’s won several Reviewer's Choice Awards from RT Book Reviews, including awards for Best Harlequin American, Best Superromance, Best Series Romance, and, most recently, Best Contemporary Romance Novel.  Her novel Love In Bloom’s was honored as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly.  Her Superromance Barefoot In The Grass has appeared on the recommended reading lists of cancer support groups and hospitals.  Her current release is Hope Street, a single-title trade paperback from Harlequin.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, Barbara holds a master's degree in creative writing from Brown University.  She has received writing fellowships from the Shubert Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught at colleges and universities around the country.  Barbara and her husband live outside Boston.  She has been a proud member of NEC-RWA for twenty years.

 

The committee is also excited about 2010’s Extra! Workshop speaker, New York Times Best-selling Author Brenda Novak!

Brenda has three novels coming out this summer—WHITE HEAT, BODY HEAT and KILLER HEAT, all part of her brand new Department 6 Series. She also runs an annual on-line auction for diabetes research every May at www.brendanovak.com. To date, she’s raised over $770,000. Brenda considers herself lucky to be a mother of five and married to the love of her life.  The first 100 registrants for 2010’s conference will have the opportunity to hear Brenda’s workshop, Emotion: The Heart of the Novel. So make sure you save the date, March 26-27, 2010 and keep checking for updates on when registration will open.

 

As has been the tradition of the Let Your Imagination Take Flight conference, 2010 will feature informative, creative and motivating workshops, excellent meals, Friday evening entertainment and dessert, individual editor and agent appointments, and our annual Bookfair for Literacy on Saturday afternoon.

Call for Workshop Proposals

The 2010 Let Your Imagination Take Flight conference hosted by the New England Chapter of Romance Writers of America would like to invite workshop proposals.  Click here for more information.

 

Now let me take a moment to introduce the 2010 Let Your Imagination Take Flight Conference  Committee.

 

Mary Reiber – Conference Chair

Lori Philbin – Registration Chair

Kathye Thornton – Workshop Chair

Katie Garvey – Editor/Agent Chair

Tara Holt – Bookfair Chair

 

Soon, all relevant email addresses will be posted, along with links, news and updates. If you have any questions, feel free to email Mary Reiber at Ksswriterone@yahoo.com.  

 

Until the next update, don’t forget to mark your calendars for March 26-27, 2010,

 

Mary Reiber

2010 Conference Chair

Let Your Imagination Take Flight