Calling Published Romance Authors
April 23, 2021 by marianne h donley in category Contests, Published Contest tagged as 2021 BBB Contest, OCC/RWA, occ/rwa BBB Contest, The Book Buyers Best Contest
2021 BOOK BUYERS BEST
CONTEST FOR PUBLISHED AUTHORS
Deadline is April 30, 2021
The OCCRWA is running its annual Book Buyers Best Contest for traditional or indie romances in print or e-novel format published during 2020.
Non-refundable entry fee: $30, RWA members; $50, non-RWA.
The contest is open now and closes on April 30, 2021. We invite you to submit to our contest (and tell your non-RWA writer friends about it, too!).
Even if you’re not entering one of your books into the contest, you’re invited to be one of our judges. It’s a fun experience to be introduced to the writing of published authors you don’t know (see link below).
Follow this link to learn about contest categories rules, entry form and fee, past winners, and call for judges
Thanks, Nancy Brashear and Cathleen Armstrong, BBB Coordinators
Go here for BBB Categories and Rules
Go here for BBB Entry Form and Fee Payment
Go here for BBB Past Winners
Go here for Judge Sign-Up
Go here to Contact BBB Contest Coordinator
Please contact OCC/RWA BBB Coordinators, Cathleen Armstrong and Nancy Brashear, at bbbcontest@occrwa.org
Orange County Chapter/Romance Writers of America®
0 0 Read moreCalling Published Romance Authors
March 16, 2021 by marianne h donley in category Contests, Published Contest tagged as 2021 BBB Contest, OCC/RWA, occ/rwa BBB Contest, The Book Buyers Best Contest2021 BOOK BUYERS BEST
CONTEST FOR PUBLISHED AUTHORS
The OCCRWA is running its annual Book Buyers Best Contest for traditional or indie romances in print or e-novel format published during 2020.
Non-refundable entry fee: $30, RWA members; $50, non-RWA.
The contest is open now and closes on April 30, 2021. We invite you to submit to our contest (and tell your non-RWA writer friends about it, too!).
Even if you’re not entering one of your books into the contest, you’re invited to be one of our judges. It’s a fun experience to be introduced to the writing of published authors you don’t know (see link below).
Follow this link to learn about contest categories rules, entry form and fee, past winners, and call for judges
Thanks, Nancy Brashear and Cathleen Armstrong, BBB Coordinators
Go here for BBB Categories and Rules
Go here for BBB Entry Form and Fee Payment
Go here for BBB Past Winners
Go here for Judge Sign-Up
Go here to Contact BBB Contest Coordinator
Please contact OCC/RWA BBB Coordinators, Cathleen Armstrong and Nancy Brashear, at bbbcontest@occrwa.org
Orange County Chapter/Romance Writers of America®
0 0 Read moreCalling Published Romance Authors
February 16, 2021 by marianne h donley in category Contests, Published Contest tagged as 2021 BBB Contest, OCC/RWA, occ/rwa BBB Contest, The Book Buyers Best Contest2021 BOOK BUYERS BEST
CONTEST FOR PUBLISHED AUTHORS
The OCCRWA is running its annual Book Buyers Best Contest for traditional or indie romances in print or e-novel format published during 2020.
Non-refundable entry fee: $30, RWA members; $50, non-RWA.
The contest is open now and closes on April 30, 2021. We invite you to submit to our contest (and tell your non-RWA writer friends about it, too!).
Even if you’re not entering one of your books into the contest, you’re invited to be one of our judges. It’s a fun experience to be introduced to the writing of published authors you don’t know (see link below).
Follow this link to learn about contest categories rules, entry form and fee, past winners, and call for judges
Thanks, Nancy Brashear and Cathleen Armstrong, BBB Coordinators
Go here for BBB Categories and Rules
Go here for BBB Entry Form and Fee Payment
Go here for BBB Past Winners
Go here for Judge Sign-Up
Go here to Contact BBB Contest Coordinator
Please contact OCC/RWA BBB Coordinators, Cathleen Armstrong and Nancy Brashear, at bbbcontest@occrwa.org
Orange County Chapter/Romance Writers of America®
0 0 Read moreCalling Published Romance Authors
January 17, 2021 by marianne h donley in category Contests, Published Contest tagged as 2021 BBB Contest, OCC/RWA, occ/rwa BBB Contest, The Book Buyers Best Contest
2021 BOOK BUYERS BEST
CONTEST FOR PUBLISHED AUTHORS
The OCC/RWA is running its annual Book Buyers Best Contest for any RWA author who has published a work of fiction with romance themes any time during 2020 (traditional or self-published).
The contest is open now and closes on April 30, 2021.
We invite you to submit to our contest.
Thanks, Nancy Brashear and Cathleen Armstrong, BBB Coordinators
Go here for BBB Categories and Rules
Go here for BBB Entry Form and Fee Payment
Go here for BBB Past Winners
Go here for Judge Sign-Up
Go here to Contact BBB Contest Coordinator
Questions and Concerns: Please contact OCC/RWA BBB Coordinators, Cathleen Armstrong and Nancy Brashear, at bbbcontest@occrwa.org
Orange County Chapter/Romance Writers of America®
0 0 Read moreMake Your Writing Shine through Self-Editing with Linda Carroll Bradd #onlineclass #self-editing
May 23, 2019 by Linda McLaughlin in category Online Classes tagged as Linda Carroll Bradd, OCC/RWA, Online Class, Self-editing
About the Class:
• Learn how to identify shallow POV and make it deeper.
• Learn how to change your writing from Telling to Showing.
• Want to perk up the pace of your prose?
• Need help pinpointing weak spots in your writing style?
This workshop will provide tips to help you tighten your sentence and paragraph structure to make your writing shine! Through the use of checklists, topical lectures and structured writing/revision exercises for each lesson, I supply tangible examples of what to look for and how to fix it. You’ll get interactive assistance from freelance editor and award-winning author, Linda Carroll-Bradd.
Linda Carroll-Bradd
The years Linda Carroll-Bradd spent working in secretarial positions paid off when she ventured into writing fiction. Along her writer journey, she put her skills with spelling, grammar, and punctuation to use and edited other authors’ manuscripts—first with just friends and then friends of friends. In 2012, she formalized the process and Lustre Editing was created. Linda has a clientele that includes USA Today and NY Times bestselling authors and has worked on all subgenres of romance, plus narrative nonfiction, memoir, middle grade fiction, and police procedural novels.
Married with four adult children, she now lives in the southern California mountains with two beloved dogs. In addition to working as a freelance editor, she is the author of more than 50 contemporary and historical stories that range from heartwarming to erotic (written under pen name Layla Chase).
Enrollment Information:
This is a 2-week online course that uses email and Groups.io. The class is open to anyone wishing to participate. The cost is $15.00 per person or, if you are a member of OCCRWA, $10.00 per person.To sign up or for more information, go to the class page at the OCC/RWA website: http://occrwa.org/classes/online-class-two/
Linda McLaughlin
OCC/RWA Online Class Coordinator
Featured Books
THE LAST GOODNIGHT
With another body turning up, one woman is hot on the trail of a killer . . .
More info →
ROSALYN’S RING
A rash Christmas Eve quest to save a young woman lands a Baron’s daughter in the lap of a jaded Viscount…and he’s not letting her go.
More info → 
