Vanessa's Island Queen is featured in the New York Times! Check it out! ISLAND QUEEN is a historical fiction novel based on the compelling life of Dorothy "Doll" Kirwan Thomas who rose from slavery to become the wealthiest woman landowner in the early 1800's Caribbean.  Take a breath. Let those facts sink in.  From slavery […]

Variety has announced that two of Kennedy Ryan's series have been optioned for TV. All the King's Men and Hoops are being developed for two limited series! Kennedy says: we are still in the early stages of developing the two series, HOOPS and All the King's Men. We're assembling a creative team comprised of the right director, […]

She just sold two Women's Fiction stories to Story Plant! The first, The Road to Me, will release March, 2022.

NYT bestselling author Pintip Dunn’s MALICE was recently recognized on ALA’s Hal Clement Notable Young Adult Boon List for best science fiction! Malice is about a girl who finds out that a boy in her class will invent a virus that wipes out half the world... ten years from now. She must decide if she […]

Margie Lawson has just guided me to my first win in a writing competition. Two immersions, several Fab 30s, including one coming up, and every other course Margie offers and finally I might have nailed story structure, writing fresh, and pacing because I have just come in second in the 2020 Ink and Insights writing […]

UPDATE: Wild Women and the Blues is an Amazon #1 Bestseller! Margie Immersion Grad Denny S. Bryce is excited about her debut historical fiction,  Wild Women and the Blues coming from Kensington Books on March 30, 2021! Ordinary People meets Chicago the musical as played out in the city's Black Belt, Wild Women and the Blues is a mainstream […]

So excited!!! Lady Danbury, the fabulous Adjoa Andoh is going to read Island Queen for the audiobook! Island Queen is Vanessa's debut in Historical Fiction and retells the remarkable life of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, entrepreneur, feminist, Royal mistress. Dorothy is a controversial woman who buys her freedom and that of her family and becomes one […]

On November 4th, the manuscript I took to my first Immersion with Margie will be out in the world of published books.

I'll bet this name is not new to you (if it is, check her out!) she's been around for years. But have you taken any of her classes? Done a Fab 30? Been to an Immersion? If not, why? You can check out Lawson Writers Academy HERE. No, Margie doesn’t pay me for commercials. I’m […]

As a veteran of two Immersion classes (one at Margie's house-in-the-sky and one at Sullivan's Island, SC) as well as multiple Academy classes, I can't speak highly enough of everything I've learned from Margie. When I returned from my first Immersion, my writing group looked at me slack-jawed when I brought in pages, astounded at […]

I've been through 3 Immersion Master Classes with Margie -- one of then Enduro (the super-duper intense version for grads of the regular version). For years, I felt like I was struggling to complete one novel in particular, Dominion of Darkness. It distracted me from other work. It pulled at my creativity, begging to be […]

I've been fortunate enough to be part of two different Immersion classes with Margie and am so proud of how my writing has improved since then! Now I know how to amp up the tension and find the deep side of my characters and make my words mean something. Patiently and with great humor, Margie […]

I’ve been lucky enough to have enjoyed two Immersions at Margie’s beautiful home in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Both had a different flavour. Both changed my writing. Both inspired me to push myself to a new level. And both were tremendous fun. My first Immersion blew my mind. I was awed by Margie’s energy and […]