November 2007 Meeting

DATE: November 13, 2007
TIME: 7 - 9 p.m.
LOCATION: Marie Callendar’s restaurant (Loop 360 & Hwy 183) - view map
TOPIC: Start With a BANG: Hooks & Cliffhangers – It’s All About Pace
SPEAKER: Jordan Dane

Find out how to begin and end your scenes and chapters so the reader can’t put your book down. Leave them wanting more.

Learn about the DEFINING SCENE for your lead characters—the first time they’re on the page. The author only gets one chance at a reader’s first impression. Take your best shot—literally.

BUILD AN ONION FROM THE INSIDE OUT by focusing a scene on dialogue as the main framework, then developing the rest with body language, mood/setting, then the emotional layering of introspection. Make each word count.

Find out how to WIN A FULL CRITIQUE of your first chapter from Jordan Dane.

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Bio:
After Jordan Dane sold her first 3-books in auction to Avon/HarperCollins in June 2006, her debut title – No One Heard Her Scream – held more significance. Everyone heard her scream!

Pursuing publication since 2003, Jordan received awards in 33 writing competitions, including her 2005 Golden Heart entry – Crossing the Line. She’s a member of Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Kiss of Death, International Thriller Writers, Inc., and her beloved Outlaws—the Oklahoma City chapter of RWA. Jordan and her husband John share their residence with an intelligent canine and two cats of highborn lineage.

Ripped from the headlines, Jordan’s gritty suspense plots weave a tapestry of vivid settings, intrigue, and dark humor. She loves challenging a reader’s moral barometer with the borderline ethics of her characters and their flawed personalities–dark, angst-ridden antiheroes pitted against unforgettable villains.

In her debut novel – No One Heard Her Scream – A relentless detective in San Antonio is barred from an investigation into her sister’s murder and forced to take another assignment. Skeletal remains buried in the wall of an old theatre destroyed by arson make an intriguing new case. But when the bones turn out to be a woman, close to her sister’s age, the hunt for a killer gets personal–a vendetta for justice.

A seductive mob enforcer, with his own secrets, stands between her and a powerful man linked to the murder. Drawn into the sinister world of human trafficking, the modern-day slave trade, the detective unravels a grim trail of destroyed lives–leaving her little hope for vindication in her sister’s death and a nameless young woman buried alive.

In 2008, take a front row seat to suspense with Avon and Jordan Dane’s 3-book series–No One Heard Her Scream, No One Left to Tell, and No One Lives Forever.

Visit her at www.jordandane.com

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