Cleveland Rocks Romance Conference
May 14th and 15th, 2010
Jumpstart your writing career this spring with a two day conference packed with industry professionals and workshops to hone your craft.
Highlights
- Meet with Editors and Agents to pitch your story
- A query letter workshop where attendees queries will be critiqued by editors and agents
- Keynote Speaker: NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham
- YA Author and English professor Rhonda Stapleton, “Crafting the YA Romance.”
- USA Today bestseller Kathy Love, “Do I Know You? Understanding Your Characters.”
- Meet and Greet cocktail hour with guests
- Book Fair, Free and open to the public
- Raffle baskets
Conference Fees
NEORWA Members $75
Non-members $85
If you are a member of RWA National, you may choose to attend the conference and join NEORWA for the remainder of 2010 for $90
All events take place at the Holiday Inn, Strongsville, OH
Click here for information about the hotel
Rooms may be reserved for $99 a night, referencing the NEORWA Cleveland Rocks Romance block.
A registration form can be downloaded by clicking here.
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Meet Our Guests
Heather Graham
New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Heather Graham, majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult and Christmas family fare.
She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty languages, and to have been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times and more. Heather has also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. She has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight and local television.
Cindy Hwang
A graduate of Smith College and the Radcliffe Publishing Course, Cindy Hwang is currently an Executive Editor at the Berkley Publishing Group. She acquires romances, women’s fiction, mysteries, young adult novels as well as general fiction and non-fiction. Some of her authors include Christine Feehan, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Maya Banks, Pamela Clare, Lora Leigh, Angela Knight, MaryJanice Davidson, and Karen White.