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Georgia Romance Writers, a chapter of ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA®, is made up of approximately 200 serious, professional writers, nearly one-third of whom are multi-published in book length fiction.

A non-profit organization, we are dedicated to bringing quality women’s fiction to the market.

GRW was founded in 1982, held its first regional conference the same year, and has grown steadily ever since. But the heart and soul of GRW are its members who reach out to every writer who is dedicated to his or her craft.

This is the professional textbook description of GRW, but those who know it best will tell you that GRW is a “happening place” where the diligent succeed and that success is revered and celebrated by all.

We are friends and we care.

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September 18–The Good, the Bad, and the Unpublishable: the nuts and bolts of a writing career (Or, Writing Isn’t For Sissies)

This workshop will highlight the careers of multi-published and award-winning authors (including my own):  how they got started, how they hooked their first agent and publishing contract, the ups and downs since the beginning, mistakes they’ve learned from and the pitfalls they can help you avoid.

About Karen White:

After playing hooky one day in the seventh grade to read Gone With the Wind, Karen White knew she wanted to be a writer—or become Scarlett O’Hara.  In spite of these aspirations, Karen pursued a degree in business and graduated cum laude with a BS in Management from Tulane University.  Ten years later, after leaving the business world, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer and wrote her first book.  In the Shadow of the Moon was published in August, 2000.  This book was nominated for the prestigious RITA award in 2001 in two separate categories.  Her books have since been nominated for numerous national contests including two more RITAs, the Georgia Author of the Year Award and in 2008 won the National Readers’ Choice Award for Learning to Breathe.
Karen currently writes what she refers to as ‘grit lit’—southern women’s fiction—and has recently expanded her horizons into writing a mystery series set in Charleston.  Her twelth novel, On Folly Beach, was released in trade paperback by New American Library, a division of Penguin Publishing Group, in May, and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks.
Karen hails from a long line of Southerners but spent most of her growing up years in London, England and is a graduate of the American School in London.  She currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two teenaged children, and a spoiled Havanese dog (who appears in several of her books), Quincy.  When not writing, she spends her time reading, singing, playing piano, and avoiding cooking.  Her most recent book, Falling Home, will be published on November 2, 2010 and she is currently contracted with Penguin for three more novels.