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Is Your Summer Too Full to Cram In an On-Line Course?
Newsletter Features Lisa Gardner!Dare Devil Dachshund Contest- ENTER NOW!
September 10 - 12 -- Colorado Gold Conference, Denver September 12 - 16 -- Immersion Master Class, Denver October 1 - 3 -- Emerald City Conference, Seattle October 7 - 11 -- Immersion Master Class, Denver November 20 -- Connecticut Chapter RWA, North Haven, Connecticut Cruise with Margie in March! Register for the WRITE AT SEA: Deep Editing Power Master Class! Two days of Master Classes, four days of fun in the Caribbean! March 24 - 28, 2011 Write At Sea cruises are offered by the amazing Julia Hunter. Get the full scoop on this power-packed Write At Sea cruise! Is Your Summer Too Full to Cram In an On-Line Course? Consider a Lecture Packet. The lectures for each of my on-line courses are available through Paypal -- at $22 per course. Please Click Here to read descriptions and to order.
Newsletter Features NYT Bestseller Lisa Gardner! NYT bestseller Lisa Gardner looks too sweet to write churn-your-guts thrillers. But readers and reviewers know she consistently crafts stories that would make Hitchcock cringe. All twelve of her suspense novels are emotionally-charged, read-em-with-the-lights-on, page-turners. What makes Lisa Gardner's writing so strong? Read my Deep Editing Analysis, and you'll find out. Would you like to receive a Deep Editing Analysis each month? Subscribe to my newsletter. Click the link on the left on this page.
THE NEIGHBOR, 2009, recently won Best Hardcover from International Thriller Writers. Lisa's writing in LIVE TO TELL, 2010, is so viscerally empowering, when a character's heart races, you'll grab your chest.
The winner of the July 28 - August 24 Dare Devil Dachshund Contest is Jennifer Newell! Jennifer won my EDITS System Power Pack--which includes one hour of my deep editing brain applied to fifteen pages of her manuscript. The next contest starts August 25th and runs through September 28th. ENTER NOW! You may be the next Dare Devil Dachshund Contest Winner!
Immersion Master Classes for 2010
Are you interested in three full days of intense Deep Editing, hands-on learning, in my log home at the top of a Colorado mountain? Class members stay at a lodge next door to my home.
Meet the Immersion Masters from August, 2010, the uber-talented and uber-committed (from left to right) Angela Foster, Betty Booher, Cindy Kiel, Miriam Allenson, Maggie Lynch, and Usha Menon. Note the EDITS System colored socks sticking through the rails. I put down my Deep Editing whip and allowed them a few moments of levity. :-)
The lone male in our August session, Mike Bourn, missed out on the sock photo opp, but I captured him snuggling my puppy - and reading an empowered excerpt from his manuscript. Calypso, my miniature dachshund, fell asleep in Mike's arms BEFORE he started reading.
Early Morning:
Betty Booher, master oboist, treated us to mellifluous morning music.
Marvelous. Magnificent. Motivating.
Late Night, After 11:00PM:
Some IMC'ers head to the lodge (and sleep) by 9:00'ish. Here's a close-up of one of the keep-on-working IMC'ers hands (Cindy Kiel), manuscript page, and Sangria.
Here's the rest of Cindy Kiel, attorney, Assistant Vice Chancellor, and oh-so-fun-loving camera-ham.
Angela Foster, Usha Menon, and Maggie Lynch dig deep into Deep Editing to make their manuscripts page-turners.
Walk six minutes from my house . . . and you'll be at this rocky point with a 330 degree view.
Enrollment is limited to seven in each Immersion Master Class session.
The five sessions for 2010 sold out, but two people had to cancel and I have TWO OPENINGS in the OCTOBER class.
Upcoming 2010 IMC sessions:
September 12 - 16 ....... FULL!
October 7 - 11 ....... 2 openings
IF YOU WANT TO CLAIM A SPOT in the OCTOBER session, E-MAIL ME ASAP.
I'm scheduling four IMC sessions for 2011: April, May, September, and October.
April, 2011 ....... 2 openings
May, 2011 ....... 3 openings
If you're interested in attending an IMC session in 2011, contact me to reserve your slot.
To read specifics about Immersion Master Class sessions, Click here.
Deep Editing Analyses
Ah! More opportunities to learn how to add psychological power to your writing. See how I analyze excerpts from Lisa Gardner, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Joseph Finder, Harlan Coben, Stephen White, Lisa Unger, Tana French, Jeri Smith-Ready, Sue Monk Kidd, James Scott Bell, Angela Hunt, Brad Meltzer, Susan Wiggs . . . and MORE! Click here!
My workshop included a skit by the always-ready-to-be-creative MayMersion Mavens. Poor Raggedy Andy was having a manuscript emergency. He needed Deep Editing Surgery!
Pictured left to right, Tracey Devlyn, Tricia Wood, Peg Colyar, moi, Nikki Duncan (masked), and Adrienne Giordano (giggling). Hidden behind Tricia -- Heather Long. Yes -- we all have the zany gene.
Thanks to Mary Behre for sharing this picture!
Margie's June and July Smiles!
LUCKY ME! Three amazing writers have visited me on the mountain this summer, Toni McGee Causey, Anna Campbell, and Lila Dipasqua. These friends are as talented as they are fun and zany.
TONI MCGEE CAUSEY
Toni is one of my high-energy ITW / RWA friends. Her SWAT Team son joined us one night and we talked him into showing-and-telling his weapons. These pictures make it look like we're personifying one of Toni's book titles:
GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE GUNS
Look at Toni's I-love-guns smile. She's weapon-happy. I'm loving it too!
The sniper rifle could make a heck of a unique centerpiece for my table.
It could be a heck of a conversation-starter and conversation-ender too.
My super-pilot-husband took us flying over Boulder and the foothills the next day. We flew over one of my favorite attractions, Red Rocks Amphitheater. This visual and acoustic wonder was completed in 1941 and seats over 9000. You'll see more pictures of the Red Rocks Amphitheatre (below) in the section on Lila Dipasqua's visit.
ANNA CAMPBELL
I met the never-too-serious Anna Campbell two years ago when I presented in Australia. Anna came all the way from Brisbane, Australia to stay with me in Denver . . . before attending RomCon. :-))
We went to Plan B. We toured Golden, Eldorado Canyon, Boulder, and Estes Park by SUV. Notice Anna is smiling -- with her hand 
on that gold-miner's rear. :-)
The top two pictures were taken at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park where THE SHINING was filmed. Here's Anna shopping in Boulder. She shopped in three towns and one canyon. We enjoyed a scrumptious late and leisurely lunch at the Stanley Hotel before hitting the mountain highway to take Anna to her fans at RomCon.
LILA DIPASQUA:
I cyber-met Lila in an on-line class several years ago, then met her in person in Canada. She invited me to present a master class for Toronto RWA. Lila also came to Denver for RomCon -- and stayed with me after the conference. We toured Red Rocks Amphitheatre by car. Here's how it looks from the ground.
These rock formations are GIGANTIC!
See the stage waaaaaay down there?
A big THANK YOU to Toni and Anna and Lila for visiting me this summer. I had a blast with each of you -- and I'd love to have you come see me again.
Thanks for visiting my web site!
All the best..................Margie
