Welcome to the Maryland Chapter of Romance Writers of America®.

Maryland Romance Writers’ objective is to encourage new writers and support published authors. Monthly meetings, plus special one-day workshops featuring a line-up of guest speakers, are developed with the input of all chapter members to ignite your muse. We celebrate our successes and even our rejections with cheers and chocolate. Additionally, we have the opportunity to attend many sister chapters’ events and the Romance Writers of America® Annual National Conference, where writers network with each other and industry professionals. Our dynamic group is passionate about romance writing–and if you are too, come join us for a meeting.

If you’d like more information about Maryland Romance Writers, please e-mail mrweventsinfo@yahoo.com

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CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Don’t miss your second chance to enter the 2010 REVEAL YOUR INNER VIXEN Contest! Due to low levels of entries in several categories, our contest deadline has been extended by ONE WEEK. If you wanted to enter, but missed the date, you now have until Tuesday, June 8 at midnight! See our CONTEST Page for details.

 Next Meeting

Thursday, June 10, 2010, 6.30pm.

Point of View (or, Yikes…Whose Skin Am I In!)

Presented by Loree Lough

If you hope to develop an intimate relationship with readers that’ll inspire them to write “I loved your hero!” and “That heroine is just like me!”, you have to put ‘em into the hearts and heads of your characters!

Join MRW on June 10th as award-winning novelist Loree Lough shares learned-the-hard-way, nitty-gritty POV tips from her Build a Better Novel course, like “To Head Hop or Not?”; “1st, 2nd, 3rd, Authorial, Subjective, Omniscient (and a slew of other mind-boggling) Points of View Fundamentals”, each tailored to help you make sense of this all-important element of crafting salable fiction.

At last count, best-selling author Loree Lough had 74 books, 63 short stories, and over 2,500 articles in print. Dubbed by reviewers “the writer whose stories touch hearts and change lives”, she has earned dozens of “Readers’ Choice” and industry awards.

Be Still…and Let Your Nail Polish Dry! has been joined by Prevailing Love and Tales of the Heart (Whitaker House). Also from Whitaker, Beautiful Bandit (#1 in Loree’s “Lone Star Legends” series) will be released this June. From Ashes to Honor (#1 in her “First Responders” series from Abingdon) is expected to hit the shelves summer, 2011, along with her third Love Finds You title, LFY in Folly Beach, South Carolina (Summerside).

Loree and her husband split their time between a little house in the Baltimore suburbs and a really little cabin in the Allegheny Mountains, where they cater to a formerly-abused Pointer whose numerous vet visits inspired the nickname ‘Cash’.

Congratulations to the 2009 Reveal Your Inner Vixen Winners! Join us next summer for more sizzling sensuality.

Check out pictures of Maryland Romance Writers at the 2009 RWA National Conference in Washington, D.C.!

Congratulations Jamie Michele for winning the 2009 Golden Heart in Contemporary Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure for “Romance or Retribution”