Fourteenth Annual VWC Symposium
Living Your Writing Life: Embracing New Chapters
August 3, 2024
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This year's Symposium will be in-person at Randolph-Macon College, 114 College Ave., Ashland, Virginia.
We're excited to have MM (Peggy) Finck as our keynote speaker.
MM Finck is a publishing consultant and niche editor specializing in queries, pitches, opening pages, & overall story analysis. She established her practice as the Query Quill in 2014. She oversees WomenWriters,Women[‘s]Books’s Agents’ Corner & Author Interviews segments. She was granted the first ever interview with the Editor-in-Chief of Amazon’s Lake Union Publishing. Among MM’s clients’ and interviewees’ successes are chart rankings, bestsellers, and two adaptations to television series - one Apple, one Prime. Two-time Vice-President of Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Past-Chair Advisor for Rising STAR Award for Unpublished Women’s Fiction. Founder of Penning Suspense, a group for suspenseful & thriller fiction writers, and togetHER, a Facebook group for women. Also active in James River Writers, Sister in Crime, & Writer Unboxed. Represented by Katie Shea Boutillier. On social media as @MMFinck. https://www.mmfinck.com/
MM Finck is a publishing consultant and niche editor specializing in queries, pitches, opening pages, & overall story analysis. She established her practice as the Query Quill in 2014. She oversees WomenWriters,Women[‘s]Books’s Agents’ Corner & Author Interviews segments. She was granted the first ever interview with the Editor-in-Chief of Amazon’s Lake Union Publishing. Among MM’s clients’ and interviewees’ successes are chart rankings, bestsellers, and two adaptations to television series - one Apple, one Prime. Two-time Vice-President of Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Past-Chair Advisor for Rising STAR Award for Unpublished Women’s Fiction. Founder of Penning Suspense, a group for suspenseful & thriller fiction writers, and togetHER, a Facebook group for women. Also active in James River Writers, Sister in Crime, & Writer Unboxed. Represented by Katie Shea Boutillier. On social media as @MMFinck.
The following 16 topics will be covered in the presentations throughout the day:
Kindle Direct Publishing: It's Simpler than You Think (and Free) So You Think You're Not a Poet? Turning Real Life Events into Fiction without Angering the Entire Family Speculative Fiction: A Genre of Hope It's in the (Tarot) Cards! — How to Use Archetypes to Your Writing Advantage Writing the Book Blurb That Will Catch the Reader's Attention to Your Book Knot the Plot in Flash Fiction The Awesome Antagonist: Writing Powerful Foes What We Talk About When We Talk about Point of View Writing is a Crime Creating Unforgettable Characters and Plots Organizing a Non-Fiction Book (Ins, Outs, & In-Betweens) How to Write a Synopsis and Query Letter The Do's and Don'ts of Self-Publishing Break Into Romance Writing and Publishing Using Poetry to Find Your Voice
Kindle Direct Publishing: It's Simpler than You Think (and Free)
So You Think You're Not a Poet?
Turning Real Life Events into Fiction without Angering the Entire Family
Speculative Fiction: A Genre of Hope
It's in the (Tarot) Cards! — How to Use Archetypes to Your Writing Advantage
Writing the Book Blurb That Will Catch the Reader's Attention to Your Book
Knot the Plot in Flash Fiction
The Awesome Antagonist: Writing Powerful Foes
What We Talk About When We Talk about Point of View
Writing is a Crime
Creating Unforgettable Characters and Plots
Organizing a Non-Fiction Book (Ins, Outs, & In-Betweens)
How to Write a Synopsis and Query Letter
The Do's and Don'ts of Self-Publishing
Break Into Romance Writing and Publishing
Using Poetry to Find Your Voice
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