Come and Share Some Chuck Wagon Grub With Us This Saturday!

The February ACRA meeting will be held at member Dolores Wilson's home north of Jacksonville.

PLEASE NOTE - this is for the February 22, 2014 meeting only. In March, we'll resume meeting at the library as usual.

The theme is "Dixie Cowboy." Casual dress is welcomed. Jeans, boots, and Western hats encouraged!

Plan on an 11:30 am arrival. A "chuck wagon grub" lunch will be served at noon.

If you plan to attend, please email Dolores to let her know, and for directions. This is important for two reasons:

• So Dolores knows how many of us will be there to consume her fabulous cooking, and she makes enough for everyone;
• So you know how to get there. (It's easy to find.)

Please email Dolores for directions.

Dolores and her pal Vickie King will present a surprise program.

This would be a good time to bring a friend who has admired what you do, and expressed an interest in writing. Joining ACRA (via RWA) is a great first step for anyone who wants to write. Everyone is welcome, but we ask that only those 18 or older attend our meetings.

See you there!

PS: Dolores will make a surprise announcement at this meeting. If you love her writing, you do not want to miss this.

PPS: Seriously, you do not want to miss this! (See Dolores smiling in the above photo? She's going to smile bigger than that when she shares her news.)

2013 ACRA FICTION WRITERS’ CONFERENCE ON THE BEACH

ANCIENT CITY ROMANCE AUTHORS

FICTION WRITERS’ CONFERENCE ON THE BEACH

"The best little conference in North Florida"

This year St Augustine will soon be 450 years old, and the Ancient City Romance Authors are helping to celebrate by offering our conference attendees a pirate’s bounty to fill their creative writing coffers.  On October 25^th and 26^th, 2013, the “doubloons” will be plentiful and valuable. It’s our hope that when you leave our conference your writer’s treasure chest will be overflowing with goodies.

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Our pirate ship will dock at Hampton Inn St. Augustine Beach, St Augustine, FL, on

Friday, October 25^th, 2013 and will remain through Saturday, October 26^th, 2013.

On board to help pass out those precious “doubloons” will be:

SHARON SALA – Bestselling Author

Sharon is a long-time member of RWA, as well as a member of OKRWA. She has 85 plus books in print, written as Sharon Sala and Dinah McCall. First published in 1991, she’s a seven-time RITA finalist, winner of the Janet Dailey Award, four-time Career Achievement winner from RT Magazine, National Reader’s Choice Award, and Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence winners five times each and has received the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from Romance Writers of America. Her books are New York Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and Waldenbooks’ mass market best-sellers. Writing changed her life, her world, and her fate.

Sharon’s Saturday workshops will be:

10 Things I wish I'd known Sooner About the Business of Publishing - motivational
Show Me The Money - a hands-on workshop about imagery and 'showing' not 'telling'
Learning the Ropes on Self-publishing - Info based

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AMIE FLANAGAN – Agent, Sullivan-Maxx Literary Agency

Amie will be taking agent appointments and doing the keynote luncheon speech –

The Story and the Agent - She will lead our attendees through the process of getting an agent, while writing a salable story.

FRIDAY WORKSHOPS:

ElizabethSinclair – Best-selling romance author and the best-selling The Dreaded Synopsis – Writing a Selling Synopsis

Kathryn Bain and Dolores J Wilson – Best-selling humor authors – How to Write Funny

Nancy Quatrano – On-Target Words: Coaching, Editing, Media Kits and Press Releases that work!—Editing Your Book for the Big Sale

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We also have some special things planned, the kind that makes our conference the best little conference in North Florida!

Friday afternoon: The director of The St Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum is planning a special “Pirate Adventure” just for us. Ahoy, matey!

Friday evening: Our resident unparalleled chef, Dolores Wilson, is cooking up a delicious reception for us, complete with lots of food that we promise you’ll be talking about for days to come.  Yum, yum!

Also, Friday evening: We’ll be ending the day with a Treasure Hunt with amazing prizes for the winning “bounty hunters.”

In addition to all the above (not including the Pirate Adventure which is $10.00 extra), registration includes lunch on Saturday, critique raffles by published authors, agents and editors, our famous theme baskets and a treasure chest filled with some fabulous goodies.

Special door prize: 
A complete CD set of
2012 RWA Conference Workshop Recordings.

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Visit the Fiction Writers' Conference on the Beach page on our website.

Questions?  Contact Elizabeth Sinclair or Kathy Bain