Registration Fee Includes:

Breakfast Coffee/Donuts

Buffet Lunch

Location: Holiday Inn Southwest

11160 Southwest Freeway

Houston, TX

FALL 2009 WORKSHOP

Saturday Sept 12, 2009

Featured Mystery Writer David Liss. author of A Conspiracy of Paper, The Coffee Trader, A Spectacle of Corruption, The Ethical Assassin, The Whiskey Rebels, and The Devil’s Company. 

Born in NJ and raised in Florida, David graduated from Syracuse University. David’s debut novel, A Conspiracy of Paper won a Barry, a Macavity, and an Edgar award for Best First Novel. He lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife and children. The Devil’s Company, his third novel with hero Benjamin Weaver, was releaded in July 2009.

Raves for The Whiskey Rebels (due in paperback this summer): 

"A raucous mix of historical fiction and action-adventure thriller" -  Booklist

"A fast-paced and complex narrative that re-imagines the events surrounding the Panic of 1792. Throughly enjoyable novel" – Library Journal

"Compulsively readable" - Kirkus Reviews

2009 SPRING WORKSHOP

Saturday

April 4, 2009

Novelist Karleen Koen, author of Dark Angels, a Book Sense publication of 2006 and author of Now Face to Face (Crown), and the bestseller Through a Glass Darkly (Random House), both of which have been translated into 12 languages and chosen as Book of the Month Club main selections.

Each of Karleen’s books have listed on the New York Times bestsellers for weeks. More than a million copies of each book have been sold. She is an award winning magazine editor and co-founder of Women in the Visual and Literary Arts in Houston. At Rice Continuing School of Education, Karleen teaches an 8-week course similar to what she will present at this workshop.

FALL 2008 WORKSHOP

Saturday

October 11, 2008

Robert Cremins is an experienced writer and teacher of writing.  Originally from Ireland, he has published two novels, Send in the Devils and A Sort of Homecoming.  Homecoming was translated into French and named a novel of the year by the L.A. Times. 

A frequent contributor to the books pages of the Houston Chronicle, Robert has also contributed work to the Dallas Morning News, the Irish Times, and the B.B.C. 

Robert has taught many writing workshops for Inprint here in Houston and is currently finishing up a series of writing skills books for high school students for Dallas-based educational publisher, Applied Practice. 

A graduate of the U.K.'s best-known writing program at the University of East Anglia, Robert became the chair of the English department at Houston's Strake Jesuit college prep.  He is now a full-time free-lance writer at work on his third novel.

2008 SPRING

"Secrets of Marketing Fiction"

April 5, 2008

Ron Rozelle, author of award-winning Into That Good Night (Farrar, Straus, Girous), spoke on the Secrets of Marketing Fiction. Ron was a finalist for the PEN American West Creative Nonfiction Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award. His first novel, Windows of Heaven, set in Galveston during the hurricane of 1900, was released by Texas Review Press in July of 2000. Chosen as Barnes and Nobles' Houston-area Featured Author for November, Ron lives in Lake Jackson, TX and teaches creative writing and English.

2007 SUMMER

"The Insider's Guide"

Jason P. Heimberg is a professional screenwriter with eight scripts in development, including Ace Ventura 3, Kingpin 2, and Truth & Art (aka T&A). He has worked with Jason Alexander (co-author of Truth & Art), Gary Ross, and Jerry Bruckheimer. Mr. Heimberg is the co-author of The Official Movie Plot Generator, featured in Newsweek as well as on Fox News, CNN, and National Public Radio. A graduate of James Madison University with a law degree from George Washington University, Jason Heimberg currently teaches Basic Screenwriting in the Rice Continuing Education program.

2007 SPRING

"The Key to Selling Your Manuscript:

Empowering Character's Emotions"

March 24, 2007

Margie Lawson holds a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology with a two-year concentration beyond her master's degree in psychiatric counseling and nonverbal communication. Her resume includes college professor, clinical trainer, sex therapist, Director of an Impotence Clinic, hypnotherapist and keynote speaker. She merges her two worlds, psychology and writing, by analyzing writing craft as well as the psyche of the writer.  Margie lives near Denver.

2006 SPRING

"Making Your Novel Unforgettable"

April 8, 2006

Anita Richmond Bunkley's novels have included historical and contemporary settings. She is a master at dramatizing her stories. She will tell you how to sell and market your book, and secrets of getting an agent or a publisher. Anita Bunkley self-published her first novel after 32 rejections and sold it from bookstore to bookstore until she had sold 10,000 copies.  Now, sixteen years and five novels later, she is a sought-after motivational speaker and popular author. Her titles include Balancing Act, Starlight Passage, Wild Embers, Black Gold and the self-published novel that began her career, Emily, the Yellow Rose (now republished by Rinard). Her novels have a devoted following and have appeared on Blackboard: African American Bestseller List. Wild Embers was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best romances of 1995. In 1997, readers of Glamour Magazine selected Starlight Passage as one of their favorite romantic novels.

2005 SPRING - April 2005

"Triple Treat - Screenwriting, Novels, Selling to Hollywood" conducted by

Casey Kelly, Chris Rogers, David Carren

Holiday Inn-Southwest, Houston, Texas

"How to Make a Hollywood Producer or New York Editor Grab a Checkbook."

Screenwriter Casey Kelly's New York City accomplishments included several critically acclaimed screenplays and televisions scripts.

"What You Should Do Before You Submit."

Chris Rogers, the critically acclaimed author of Bitch Factor, Rage Factor, and Chill Factor published by Bantam, covered all the elements of honing that manuscript for publication.

"What It Takes to Make it in Hollywood."

Hollywood Screenwriter and Producer David Carren's credits include "Walker, Texas Ranger,: "Stargate SGI," "Murder She Wrote," "Beauty and the Beast," "Spencer for Hire," "Martial Law," and "The New Twilight Zone." He was story editor for Dennis the Menace and Star Trek the Next Generation.

2004 Spring Workshop

"Writing the Award-Winning Novel"

March 27, 2004

Rick Riordan winner of the Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus Award for his novels focused on what it takes to write a critically acclaimed novel, from an intriguing opening, character and plot development, and an unforgettable ending.

2003 Spring Workshop

"It's all about story"

March 15, 2003

Sam Havens, popular Houston screenplay writer and director and professor of drama at the University of St. Thomas, focused on what it takes to move a story -- novel or screenplay -- character, motivation, goal, dilemma, and resolution.