Guild’s Feb. 1 workshop on Love Scenes: When to Turn Out the Lights

Multipublished author Lynn Cahoon will help clarify what heat level your writing needs during the St. Louis Writers Guild’s workshop on “Love Scenes: When to Turn Out the Lights” from 10 a.m. to noon, Feb. 1, at the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 S. Geyer Rd. in Kirkwood. Free to members, $5 for nonmembers.

Most writers face questions such as: How much sex has to be in a book? When do they have to do the deed? What words can you use? Is your mother going to read this?

Lynn will discuss the different heat levels (and target publishers), provide examples of love scenes for all types of romances, brainstorm appropriate language to set the mood, and ways to find your muse and inspiration.

An Idaho native, her stories focus around the depth and experience of small-town life and love. Lynn has been published in Chicken Soup anthologies, explored controversial stories for the confessional magazines, short stories in Women’s World, and contemporary romantic fiction. She lives with her husband and two fur babies in a small historic town on the banks of the Mississippi River where her imagination tends to wander.

The first book in her cozy mystery series, Guidebook to Murder-A Tourist Trap Mystery, will be released by Kensington Publishing Corp. in April 2014.

More information about St. Louis Writers Guild events is available at www.stlwritersguild.com.

SLWG presents Focus on Fiction: The Road to Publication

The St. Louis Writers Guild will present “Focus on Fiction: The Road to Publication” from 10 a.m. to noon, May 4, at the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 S. Geyer Road, in Kirkwood. The workshop is free to Guild members or $5 for nonmembers.

Panelists will include romance writer Lynn Cahoon (The Bull Rider series, and A Member of the Council); speculative fiction writer H.C. Beckerr (Hill of Great Darkness); historical fiction writer Warren Martin (Forgotten Soldiers); and mystery writer Pam DeVoe (her first novel is out this fall).

Lynn Cahoon writes contemporary romance with a love of hot, sexy men--real and imagined. Her alpha heroes range from rogue witch hunters, modern cowboys, or hot doctors, sexy in scrubs. And her heroines all have one thing in common--their strong need for independence. Or at least that’s what they think they want. She blogs at www.lynncahoon.wordpress.com

Cahokia Mounds, an archeological site near his childhood home, fostered H.C. Beckerr’s love for mystery and the unknown things of life. While working on his first Christian-based science fiction novel, he served as a pastor at various St. Louis-area churches. Check out his Facebook pages--H.C. Beckerr, Henry Martin, and Hill of Great Darkness—and his blog, InsaneFaithNow, at hcm59.wordpress.com

A 21-year career in the United States Army during the Cold War inspired Warren Martin’s novel about a soldier who disappeared in Vietnam in 1970. Forgotten Soldier was a historical fiction finalist for the 2012 Stars and Flags Book Awards. Warren’s pursuing a PhD. in Business and Organizational Leadership. He also serves on the Board of the St. Louis Publishers Association and the Advisory Board for the Green Beret Foundation. His website is: www.warrenmartinbooks.com.

Pam DeVoe is an anthropologist and, as you might expect, an incorrigible magpie for collecting seemingly irrelevant information. Already published in nonfiction and poetry, she is especially excited about her first novel—a cozy mystery--book #9 in the Creative Woman Mystery Series (with Annie’s Publishing). As president of the Greater St Louis chapter of Sisters in Crime, Pam does author interviews for their blog, http://stlsinc.blogspot.com.  

Find out more about the St. Louis Writers Guild and upcoming activities at www.stlwritersguild.net.

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