Creating Vivid Worlds - Laura Resau
Isn't it a delicious feeling to delve into a book and enter another world? Laura Resau will explore ways to offer your readers (and potential editors!) this joy. She'll share strategies for enriching setting through imagery and description. You'll do short writing exercises to help make your story a vivid, multi-sensory experience that readers can't resist.
Creating Characters that Leap Off the Page - Laura Resau
Making your readers (and potential editors!) fall in love with your characters is essential to a successful story. Laura Resau will share ways to create vivid, three-dimensional characters who stay with your readers long after the last page. She will lead you through short writing exercises designed to let your characters deepen and shine.
I've consistently received positive feedback on my author events. Here is a list of past author events from 2006-2007:
* Presentation for a Children's Literature class at Howard Community College, Maryland. April 26, 2007.
* Featured author in the ground-breaking ceremony for the new local public library - presentation of the first book - What the Moon Saw - to the library.
* Presentation on Revision Strategies and Author Panel discussion at the Spring Conference of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the SCBWI (Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators), Golden CO, March 31, 2007
* Author Panel discussion at the Colorado Teen Literature Conference, Denver, CO, April 14, 2007
* Pooh's Corner, Reading and Signing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 17, 2006
* Van Andel Institute, Reading and Signing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 15, 2006
* Presentation at the Day of the Dead celebration at the Fort Collins Public Library, Oct. 28, 2006
* Tattered Cover Reading and Signing, Denver, November 2006
* Barnes and Nobles Reading and Signing, Fort Collins, October 2006
* Book release party, Everyday Joe's Coffeehouse, Fort Collins, September 2006