So you want to write a paranormal romance.

Where do you start?

With World Building, of course.
No easy task, but we hope to help. World Building is an all encompassing part of the paranormal. From characters to geography to weapons to social dynamics, to the creatures or magic contained within your world, everything in a paranormal must be created by you, the writer. And once you create your world, you and your characters must abide by those rules. We’ll show you where to start, the step by step process for creating your world, and how you and your characters can easily learn to live within the boundaries you’ve set.

 

Jaci Burton is a National Bestselling author of contemporary erotic romance and paranormal romance. She writes for four publishers, so her life is spent juggling deadlines and trying to keep the characters straight in all her books. Jaci is an award winning author, and has won the Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Award.  Jaci makes her home in northeast Oklahoma with her husband and more dogs than she can wrangle.  To date she has published over thirty-five books.

Mandy M. Roth  grew up fascinated by creatures that go bump in the night. From the very beginning, she showed signs of creativity. At age five, she had her first piece of artwork published. Writing came into play early in her life as well. Over the years, the two mediums merged and led her to work in marketing. Combining her creativity with her passion for horror has left her banging on the keyboard into the wee hours of the night. Mandy lives with her husband and three children on the shores of Lake Erie, where she is currently starting work on her Master’s Degree. She was nominated for Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Paranormal Erotic.

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How do you create psychic characters for your stories—paranormal or not—and what do you do with them once you’ve created them? In this workshop, Mary discusses creating characters—and the worlds they live in—who have psychic gifts and live in your stories as heroes, heroines, villains, minor characters, or even backstory characters. Mary analyzes types of psychic gifts and the abilities that come with them, discusses the tools, methods and probable knowledge for varying kinds of gifts. She also discusses different levels of giftedness and the role of practice and discipline.

As always, Mary’s workshops are full of written and internet references to allow you to pursue the information long after the workshop ends.

Mary O’Gara was born with psychic gifts and grew up learning to use them. Her father was a small-town lawyer who used his own gifts as part of his practice and taught her to do the same.

Mary developed her skills on the job and within her family. In 1976 Mary moved to Santa Fe and began an apprenticeship in astrology that led to three decades of work as a professional psychic.

She developed her financial and business astrology specialty through special training and through her own real estate interests. As part of that ongoing training, Mary studied, practiced and taught astrology, numerology, tarot, I Ching, tarot, and pendulum work. She is a Silva graduate and a certified Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner. Mary is a Reiki master and also does both crystal and color healing.

Visit her on the web at http://www.iowapoet.com/

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Cost for the workshop is $15 for NEORWA members, $20 for all others. 
You do not have to be an RWA member to take our workshops! 
 

You must EMAIL the form to Rhonda Stapleton in order to enroll for the workshop!!
 

After you've submitted the registration form, you can visit PayPal to submit your workshop fee to neorwa@neorwa.com

Or, you can mail your personal check, made out to NEORWA. If you choose to do this, please email Rhonda for the address.

****If you mail a check, please do NOT include your registration form with the check. You can put the workshop title in the memo line of your check so we know to apply the fees to your registration.  The registration form MUST BE EMAILED to Rhonda Stapleton in order for you to be registered!!****

Note: Your payment is due on/before the registration deadline for your selected workshop.

*******REGISTRATION CUT-OFF IS THE DAY BEFORE THE WORKSHOP STARTS*******

The registration deadline is the day before the workshop starts. Once registered, you will be subscribed to the workshop loop prior to and for the duration of the class.

For more information, please email Rhonda at rhonda.stapleton@sbcglobal.net or rhonda@rhondastapleton.net