Pursue your personal publishing happily-ever-after
DARA Presents Cindy Dees on December 6th
Tropes Are Our Friends
Widely misunderstood and blamed for all manner of bad writing, tropes are, in fact, the foundation of all story structure and one of your most powerful tools for creating a layered, complex, compelling story that your readers will love. The top selling novels in the biz today layer multiple tropes, sometimes dozens of them, into a single story. Join Cindy for a down and dirty master class on how to do this in your own work in progress. This is a hands-on workshop, so bring your thinking cap, a pen, and a work in progress or story idea you’d like to develop.
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Bio:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 120+ books, Cindy writes in a variety of genres, including thrillers, military adventure, romantic suspense, fantasy, and alternate history. She’s also the creator and executive producer of an upcoming Netflix television series based on her Helen Warwick thriller novel series about a woman assassin of a certain age. Cindy has recently launched a series of bestselling non-fiction books about story structure called the Tropoholic’s Guides. So far, she has released four of seven volumes of romance tropes and the first of eight volumes on thriller tropes. She’s currently gathering tropes for books in mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, westerns, and melodrama genres. A former U.S. Air Force pilot and part-time spy, she draws upon real-life experience to fuel her stories of life (and sometimes love) on the edge of danger.
You can find out more about her at https://cindydees.com/
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You’re invited to join the Dallas Area Romance Authors for their Annual Holiday Breakfast
When: Saturday, December 7, 2023
Location: 675 W Walnut St
Garland, TX 75040
(Door is in back, close to Glenville Dr.)
Speaker: Cindy Dees
Topic: Tropes Are Our Friends
Schedule of Events (Central Time):
9am – 9:30am Breakfast (Members Free. Guests $20 to be paid on arrival, cash or checks accepted).
9:30am – 9:45am – Short turnover meeting
9:45am - 10am – break and socializing
9:50 am – Zoom will open for virtual attendees.
10am: Keynote Speaker Cindy Dees presents TROPES ARE OUR FRIENDS (said in a creepy Mr. Rogers imitation)
If you’d like to donate a basket or item to the raffle, please contact Janet Leigh at janetleighbooks@gmail.com
If you'd like to join us via ZOOM please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYldOivrjgoEtCDVpabr6jgLJE3zQnNSuPz
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At DARA, you will find...
DARA's Purpose & People
We are a non-profit, voluntary association of writers dedicated to raising and maintaining quality in the romance genre and its sub-genres. DARA works to accomplish this through advocating high professional standards and through the dissemination of information on writing and the publishing industry. DARA is chapter 56 of the Romance Writers of America.
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We welcome all writers serious about pursuing a personal publishing happily-ever-after.
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We invite you to come to a meeting or two, get to know us, and find out if you'd like to join our writing family.
DARA is a local chapter of RWA. Click to learn more.
