Valley of the Sun Romance Writers
WRITERS ROUNDUP MINI-CONFERENCE
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Debra will teach two workshops: |
Saturday June 6, 2009
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Location: Hilton
Garden Inn
1940 W. Pinnacle Peak Rd - Phoenix,
AZ 85027
map available
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Come prepared to learn how to put the essentials of a book together during the course of this exceptional workshop. Debra speaks to groups all over the country, teaching primarily from her excellent book on the craft of writing, called, GOAL, MOTIVATION, CONFLICT.
Schedule:
Workshops: 9:00am to
5:00pm
Morning break: 10:30 to 10:45
Lunch break: 12:30 to 2:00
Afternoon break: 3:30 to 3:45
ABOUT DEBRA DIXON
Debra Is a bestselling author currently at work on her eleventh book, and has served as Vice-President for Romance Writers of America, an organization of over 9,000 writers. In 2003 RWA honored Debra with the national Emma Merritt Service Award, recognizing her contributions to writers and the organization.
Her published work has been awarded the Georgia Romance Writers' "Maggie," A Little Romance Magazine's ROMY, Colorado's Award of Excellence, the Kiss of Death Award for best suspense of the year from RWA's Mystery/Suspense Chapter, and she's received a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Innovative Series Romance. Her published books have been recognized as finalists for the Virginia Holt Medallion, Romantic Times Best Loveswept, and the National Readers' Choice Award for romance fiction.
In addition to speaking at numerous regional and national conferences Debra developed and continues to teach a novel writing courses for the University of Memphis as well as one-day writing workshops across the country. In late 1996, Gryphon Books For Writers published Debra's first writing "how-to" book based on her popular GMC:Goal, Motivation, and Conflict workshop. That book is now in its sixth printing. In late 2002, Gryphon published Debra's second non-fiction book When You're the Only Cop in Town, a writer's guide to small town law enforcement.
Although she has now "semi-retired" from a successful career as a small business consultant, she continues to serve on the Board of Directors for three corporations, including an international trading company. Her latest adventure in the world of business is BelleBooks, a small press founded with five other commercial fiction writers. Between them they've written over 200 books for New York publishers and thought it was time to follow the lead of the independent film makers by producing and controlling some of their own work.
Debra lives in the South with her husband and son. When she's not working in publishing or Corporate America, she moonlights as an award-winning quilter. The current home-remodeling-project-that-will-not-end began because Debra thought it would be nice to have a quilt studio for her art.