Each month our newsletter features a recurring “My Five” column.

Past Articles

• My Five Romance Novels I Would Want on a Desert Island
  by Heather Foeh (February 2007)
• My Five Reasons for Being a Writer
  by Jane Myers Perrine (March 2007)
• My Five Greatest Fears
  by Christina J. Riggan (April 2007)
• My Five Most Important Writing Influences
  by Christine Keach w/a Lexi Connor (May 2007)
• My Five Reasons My Writing is Good for My Family
  by Emily McKay (June 2007)
• My Five Goals for the RWA Conference
  by Christina J. Riggan (August 2007)
• My Five Reasons Why It’s Okay to Visit the Bookstore
  by Nicole Jordan (September 2007)
• Five Ways to Beat the Writer’s Block Blues
  by Nicole Jordan (September 2007)
• The Five Things That I Could be Doing Instead of Writing
  by Nicole Jordan (September 2007)
• My Five Most Difficult Pieces of Writing as an Unpublished Author
  by Lexi Connor (October 2007)

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Here are some guidelines for submitting an article:

Topics
Each month’s column will feature the author’s top five… something. The possibilities for this column are limited only by your imagination, and all are welcome as long as they have something to do with writing, reading, romance or other topics of interest to our group.

Examples
What are the top five books you wish you’d never read? Top five books on writing? Who do you think are the top five editors in the business today? Who are the top five people who influenced your writing? What five phrases should never be included in a romance novel? What are your five favorite character names? What do you think are the top five occupations for villains? Top five historical settings for romance? Top five eras not being written about today?

Submission Guidelines
Ideally “My Five” columns should be between 250 - 500 words. In addition, please include your name, contact information, and one or two sentences about you.

Send your submissions to newsletter@austinrwa.org by the end of the month to be included in the next month’s newsletter. If the heavens open and too many submissions are submitted in a single month, they may be spaced out over time. Please state if you have a particular reason for wanting to be in a certain month’s newsletter (new book coming out, etc.) and that will be taken into account.

Publication Permissions
By submitting a “My Five” article, you grant permission for it to be printed in An Austin Affair and to be posted on the public-facing AustinRWA.org web site. Articles included in An Austin Affair will be shared via e-mail with other RWA chapter newsletter editors and may be reprinted in their newsletters at the editors’ discretion.