A Day with Damon SuedeRegistration now open for our MCRW September Event featuring Damon Suede!
When: Saturday, September 15, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. with optional evening session and Sunday morning breakfast (additional fees required).
Registration link: https://www.rwa.org/e/in/eid=831
Who: Damon Suede grew up out-n-proud in
right-wing America, and escaped as soon as it was legal. He has earned his
crust as a model, a messenger, a promoter, a programmer, a sculptor, a singer,
a stripper, a bookkeeper, a bartender, a techie, a teacher, a director… but
writing has ever been his bread and butter. Though new to romance fiction,
Damon has been a full-time writer for print, stage, and screen for almost three
decades. He has won some awards, but counts his blessings more often: his
amazing friends, his demented family, his beautiful husband, his loyal fans,
and his silly, stern, seductive Muse who keeps whispering in his ear, year
after year.
Saturday, September 15
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9:00
a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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CHARACTER
BUILDING: Action Figures
Bestsellers
start with fascinating people. Boost your writing process and anchor your
career at any stage with a new characterization method that jumpstarts
drafting, crafting, revision, and pitching. Go beyond looks, persona, and
boilerplate traits so you can bust your ruts and build the perfect cast to
dazzle your readers. This session includes:
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skill-builders to intensify language, stakes, and emotion for
your readers.
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battle-tested solutions for common traps, crutches, and
habits.
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a dynamic story-planning strategy effective for plotters and
pantsers.
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exercises to help you upgrade stories in any genre.
In
this deep-dive morning session, we’ll take your fictional folks to the next
level with a simple, powerful technique that will strengthen your people,
your plots, your hooks, and your voice. Whether you like to wing it or bring
it, you’ll leave this workshop with a new set of practical, language-based
tools to populate your pages and lay the foundations of unforgettable genre
fiction.
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12:00
p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Lunch (included with registration fee)
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1:00
p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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FIND
YOUR GAME FACE
This
hands-on workshop on presence and platform will teach you how to identify a
personal archetype to embody your brand and launch your projects in the genre
marketplace. In this session you’ll learn to:
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evoke story patterns that protect and project your
professionalism.
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harness the power of personal goals and a public platform, on-
and offline.
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tailor your message to open doors and attract the right
kind of attention.
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cultivate a healthy A-gang to minimize headaches and boost
promo.
A
strategic authorial presence can be a game changer for your career. This
class will show you how to groom and broadcast your unique appeal, so you
become your own best advertisement
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7:00
p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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SELLING
STORIES (Optional
Evening Session – additional fee required)
Does your marketing copy earn its keep? This
session tackles the wild, woolly world of blurbs and explore the way a high
concept premise can anchor a project before and during the writing process.
We’ll drill down into the challenges of summarizing your story’s strongest
selling point. We'll unpack the knack of crafting a clear hook, a free prize,
and boiling a project into a logline that closes the sale, before and after
publication.
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Sunday, September 16
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Time
TBD
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SMALL
GROUP BREAKFAST (Optional
Morning Session – additional fee required)
Get all of your marketing questions answered in this
small group breakfast discussion with Damon. Space is very limited for this option,
and will be filled on a first come, first served basis. The cost of breakfast
at the Four Points by Sheraton on-site restaurant is not included with the
registration fee.
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Cost:
Register between
July 1 – July 31
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Register between
August 1- September
7
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MCRW Members:
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$65.00
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MCRW Members:
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$75.00
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Non-Members:
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$75.00
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Non-Members:
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$85.00
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Optional
Evening Session: Selling Stories
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$20.00
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Optional
Evening Session: Selling Stories
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$20.00
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Optional
Sunday Breakfast (cost of food not included):
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$20.00
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Optional
Sunday Breakfast (cost of food not included):
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$20.00
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Registration
closes for members and non-members on September 8, 2018
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Guest rooms are $129.00 plus applicable state and local taxes.
For more information about becoming a MCRW member, click here. Please note that this event is limited to attendees over the age of 18 only.
Refund Policy: Due to
our timeline for securing meals and materials, we are not able to offer refunds
after August 15.
