02/05/10 - 02/26/10 - Online Workshop: Yummy Heroes with Jackie Ivie and Teresa Bodwell

He's a charmer. He's sexy. He's a bad boy, a man's man and every woman's dream. Now how to write him. Join Jackie Ivie and Teresa Bodwell as they teach us how to build a Yummy Hero! Mmm, like chocolate, too delicious to pass up!

February 2010 — Yummy Heroes
Presented by Jackie Ivie and Teresa Bodwell
Dates: February 5-26
Deadline: February 2
FMI: http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/#FEB
Course Description:
Creating the Yummy Hero

"Great heroes are like chocolate--luscious, good for nibbling and available in a variety of fillings."

Using examples from books and movies, the presenters start with the basic testosterone driven male to find the hero within. Whether he's a bad boy or smooth-talking charmer, a reluctant hero or a take-charge warrior every hero must have strength, compassion, determination, courage and the flaws that make him human. The author can mix, blend, and measure these traits to make
her hero unique.

This workshop looks beyond the Alpha/Beta debate to:
What makes a hero satisfying for his heroine?
How can the author best portray those heroic traits?

Sessions will focus on physical description, mannerisms, dialogue, and love scenes. Participants will have the opportunity to submit brief assignments for critique.

Instructor Bios:
Jackie Ivie lives with her family in Alaska, where she combines being a wife, mother, needlework fanatic, and US Postal retiree with a massive love of writing historical romances. Jackie's stories are set in the Scottish Highlands and always feature larger-than-life, big, brawny, beautiful,
kilt-wearing heroes and the feisty heroines that tame and claim them. She's always daydreaming of history, romance..., and heroes. THE KNIGHT AND WHITE SATIN, due in the fall of 2010, will be Jackie's seventh historical romance, featuring another brawny, beautiful...alpha-male hero and the woman he adores. Jackie's novels have placed/won 22 romance awards since the Beacon's Best First Book for LADY OF THE KNIGHT in 2004.

Read more about Jackie at her website: http://www.jackieivie.com/

Teresa Bodwell lives in Montana where the spirit of the Old West still runs through the mountains, rivers, and sweeping plains. That landscape inspires her stories of tough heroes and courageous heroines who struggle for survival, for family and for love. Teresa is the author of two western
historical novels and a novella in the anthology, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS. As an attorney, she has learned that life can be unfair and a happy outcome is not always possible. She enjoys writing stories where happy endings are guaranteed.

Read more about Teresa at her website: http://tbodwell.com/

You can register for the following on-line class through February 2. Each class is $16.
FMI: www.lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/