APRIL 2 – 27: Let Conflict Tell Your Story
Susan Meier—back by popular demand!
Course Content:
Good books are about people. Great books are about people in trouble. Not just external trouble, but real, gut wrenching, soul hurting trouble. Most of us can give our characters believable external struggles and even get them beyond those struggles, but what about that internal struggle? Can a leopard really change his or her spots? And if so how? What do editors and agents mean when they say your character has to grow? Learn the basis for every internal struggle and how to achieve believable character growth that can carry your whole story and give your characters a real happy ending.
About the Instructor:
Susan Meier is the author of 45 books for Harlequin and Silhouette and one of Guideposts’ Grace Chapel Inn series books, The Kindness of Strangers. Her books have been finalists for Reviewers Choice Awards, National Reader’s Choice Awards and Cataromance.com. Reviewer’s Choice Awards and nominated for Romantic Times awards. Her book Her Baby’s First Christmas won the traditional category in the 2009 More Than Magic contest. The Magic of a Family Christmas was a finalist in the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence. Susan has given talks at RWA chapter conference, on-line workshops, and has regularly appeared in RWA chapter newsletters.
A one-time legal secretary and director of a charitable foundation, Susan Meier found her bliss when she became a full-time novelist for Harlequin. She’s visited ski lodges and candy factories for “research” and works in her pajamas. But the real joy of her job is creating stories about women for women. In her 47 published novels, she’s tackled issues like infertility, losing a child and becoming widowed, and worked through them with her characters.
Her 2011 Christmas book, KISSES ON HER CHRISTMAS LIST, is a nominee for a REVIEWER’S CHOICE AWARD and an RT 4-1/2 star top pick for December 2011. Her popular website www.susanmeier.com has recipes, workshops for writers and short stories featuring the characters in previous books. Every Monday morning she devotes her Dear Readers blog to the craft of writing.
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