Workshops and Classes

Location #1:

Coffee Oasis
4650 NASA Road 1
Seabrook, TX 77586
281.532.1439

Location #2:

Clear Lake Freeman Library
16616 Diana Lane
Houston, TX 77062
281.488.1906

Details to follow

Sophie Jordan and Tera Lynn Child

Beginnings, Middles, and Ends: A Story In Three Parts

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Join award winning authors Sophie Jordan/Sharie Kohler and Tera Lynn Childs as they discuss beginnings, middles and ends. From hooking your reader at the start to lifting up that sagging middle to delivering the big pay-off, this intensive workshop will provide writers of any genre and any experience with the tools to navigate a story so that the spellbinding idea is conveyed on the page. Using a variety of examples to illustrate these techniques and exercises to apply them to your own work, they will transform the way you approach your writing!

Speaker Bios

Bestselling author Sophie Jordan took her adolescent daydreaming one step further and penned her first historical romance in the back of her high school Spanish class. This passion led her to pursue a degree in English and History. After several years teaching high school students to love ANTIGONE, Sophie resigned with the birth of her first child and decided it was time to pursue the long-held dream of writing. In less than three years, her first book, ONCE UPON A WEDDING NIGHT, a 2006 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Nominee for Best First Historical, hit book shelves. Her second novel, TOO WICKED TO TAME, released in March 2007 with a bang, landing on the USA Today Bestseller's List. And as if she's not busy enough, Sophie writes contemporary paranormals for Pocket under the name Sharie Kohler.

Though Tera Lynn Childs may pretend to be a goddess, she’s really just a normal person. Well, maybe not normal. She is a writer, after all. When not collaging her latest hero--can a girl have too many pictures of Nick Lachey?--she spends her time writing at Starbucks, blogging with the Buzz Girls, hunting down long-lost loves on MySpace, and convincing herself that watching America’s Next Top Model counts as research. After finaling in several contests--including the Emily, the Stiletto, and the Golden Heart--with her first three manuscripts, TLC finally sold the one that never finaled. OH. MY. GODS., is a May 2008 hardcover release from Dutton Children’s Books and the sequel is due out Spring 2009.